Portraits
Portraits and profile shots of Guy Parker-Rees is a British illustrator and author of children's books taken in his Brighton studio.
Read MoreI always like meeting new people and taking informal professional profile head shots for them and hearing their stories about who they are and how they got to be where they’re going.
In this case Ben is a Brighton based ghost writer, author and writing coach specialising in self help and wellness books.
He contacted me and we had a chat about what he’s looking for and said that “One of things I love about the work on your site is that they can be used for formal purposes but they are anything but stuffy/uptight, you capture the warmth and humanity of your subjects.”
I always like to hear how people see my portraits / head shots and work with them to get what they are looking for and i’m pretty pleased with the results from this shoot.
I don’t really do photography projects…..however I seem to have accidentally been shooting one for five years now.
Once a month, every month for the last five years (that’s 60 shoots), i’ve been photographing Brighton people (326 in total) in various professions / hobbies / businesses for the wonderful Viva Brighton Magazine with the help of the amazing Rebecca Cunningham and Kelly Mechen.
Although it's not quite an A to Z of professions, we’ve shot everything from Adventures to Window cleaners including Butchers, Bakers and Cocktail Makers.
When I started the first The Way We Work shoot in November of 2014 I didn’t think we’d be still shooting five years later, but to be honest, i’m more than happy to continue this project indefinitely as it’s such fun, incredibly interesting and is literally a documentary of The Way We Work.
Like I said, I don’t really do photography projects, but when I do they seem to be big.
Two years ago I got to take the portrait of a Brighton photography Legend. Tony Tree, who was a staff photographer on the Argus newspaper for a long time in the golden age of print.
I remember having a great time on the shoot while photographing Tony and I was just asked this morning if someone could use the photo I shot back in 2016 for another article. So I thought i'd revisit the images from the shoot to see if I could offer them anything else, and I came across this photo that didn't work for the first article, but I really think it captures Tony's reflective nature.
So I suppose the moral of the story is that it can pay to look at your work with fresh eyes and a couple of years distance.
Oh and here is the original image from the portrait shoot we used two years ago.
As part of my ongoing project to capture The Way We Work for Viva Brighton Magazine, I got to shoot a load of portraits of scientists at Susssex University in their labs.
They were a really interesting bunch of people and I seem to remember having some good discussions with them.
It's a portrait of a man holding a chicken. What more do you want?
Ok it's the Farmer David from Mile Oak farm in Brighton and I photographed him for Viva Brighton Magazine.
Happy now.
As part of my ongoing project to capture The Way We Work for Viva Brighton magazine, I got to photograph a load of Architect's portraits the other month.
I love how they are all wearing similar tones and colours. Maybe it's an Architect's thing.
If you want to see more of this project, which has been running for over three years now, check out this link:
http://www.adambronkhorst.com/the-way-we-work/
