The Way We Work - Care

Last months theme for the portraits for my ongoing photography project with Viva Brighton magazine, The Way We Work was ‘care’ so we thought we’d photograph care workers.

So we headed down to the wonderful Martlets Hospice in Brighton & Hove, Sussex to photograph some of the amazing people who work there.

This morning I received this lovely email passed onto me by the magazine:

”I just wanted to pass on a huge thank you to you and Adam for the incredible ‘Way We Work’ Martlets feature in this month’s Viva Brighton – so many people have mentioned it to me and noticed it.  All the people in the magazine have asked for extra copies for family and friends (considering they all ‘hate having their photograph taken’ I think that shows Adam’s wonderful talent that everyone is pleased!)  We’re also delighted to be in such a wonderful edition – it was quite hard to get any work done when it arrived...

I hope you are all well, best wishes and many, many thanks again.”

It’s always nice getting feedback, but from people who literally change peoples live, it means a lot.

If you’d like to see some more of this photographic project which i’ve been shooting for over five years now, just click this link.

Portrait of a Brighton Photography Legend

Tony Tree - Brighton Argus Photographer

It's always a pleasure to taking a photographers portrait and usually a bit daunting. However on this occasion it was an absolute joy.

I had to take a portrait of legendary Brighton photographer Tony Tree (which you can see in this months Viva Brighton magazine), who has worked with the likes of David Bailey and Helmut Newton. He also spent 20 years as a photographer for The Brighton Argus during the 70s, 80s and 90s when press photography was a very different beast to what it is today.

Tony was a joy to photography and to chat to about all things photographic and hear some stories of the past. He was so accommodating and I wanted to capture some of that kindness in the portrait. I also took inspiration for this portrait from one of my favourite photographers the wonderful Jane Bown. Who worked for the Observer for many many years and worked with minimal equipment and always shot on an old black and white film camera. This portrait wasn't shot on film, but I was thinking of her during the shoot.

So thanks so much Tony and Jane.

Small Batch Coffee Portrait

I'm really enjoying taking environmental portraits at the moment. I love the challenge of not knowing what i'm gonna do till I arrive. Then trying to work out the best way to make and image.

So for this portrait I was asked to take a shot of Brad from Small Batch Coffee at their main warehouse in Hove, for the My Brighton feature in Viva Brighton Magazine. 

I'm really pleased with how it came out and love the colours and different shapes of the bins.

New company profile shots

I really like doing company profile shots. I can guarantee that most people who I have to shoot a portrait of for their work, always start the conversation off with "I hate having my photo taken and have never had a nice photo taken of me." Admittedly it's not the best way to start a conversation off with someone who's about to take your portrait, but the conversation usually ends with "Oh, I'm really pleased with that photo. Thanks."

I see taking someone's portrait as a two way process, so I always involve my subjects in the decision making process and we work together to get a great image of them that they are happy with. This way we end up with comments from people like "That's the best photo that anyones ever taken of me" and "oh you're such a genius"......OK that last one was made up, but it's really nice to change someone opinion of photography and having their photo taken.

These images were from a recent corporate portrait shoot that I did for a Brighton based business psychologists Criterion Partnership's new revamped website (which at the time of writing this blog post is still in development, but should be up soon).

If you'd like some company profile shots / corporate portraits / company head shots, call it what you like, but please do get in contact with me here, as i'd love to help you out.