November 2023

It was a pleasure to be interviewed by a journalist as rigorous and sharp as Cosmo Landesman who writes for The Sunday Times Style (read here), he certainly is not easy to sway or dissuade from his line of reasoning, particularly as he had previously interviewed a dear ex-girlfriend of mine Bebe Buell. This was […]

 I found myself being overtaken by a posh accent and my assistants began to comment and laugh. Then I realised it was a hangover from my over doing it the night before and then I realised I had stopped taking drugs 20 years ago, so there was no excuse. As we were leaving David asked […]

The Girl In The Iron Mask shot for the FT’s then luxury lifestyle title ‘How to Spend It’ (those were the days). I’m particularly fond of the way she looks soulfully through the mask and radiates a particular intensity. Clive Arrowsmith is still  shooting stunning images, staging exhibitions and is as passionate about photography as […]

When I discovered them again between shoots, exhibitions and the whirlwind of the photography world. I realised how sensual and slightly androgynous the model is who I think is called Mona but I am not 100 percent sure. I shot these phots on a Linhof 5×4 plate camera for Hearst Magazines – it was a […]

I then asked him what he thought was the weirdest thing about the current music industry? He screwed his face up for a moment in silent contemplation and opened his eyes, looked up at me and shaking his head slowly said,  “That U2 ever had a hit”.

 I found myself being overtaken by a posh accent and my assistants began to comment and laugh. Then I realised it was a hangover from my over doing it the night before and then I realised I had stopped taking drugs 20 years ago, so there was no excuse. Kate Bush came the famous Holborn […]

I photographed Terence Stamp about a decade ago for a newspaper supplement feature in Holborn, sort of East London way. Terence arrived in a very uncoordinated outfit. A pale blue polo shirt, topped off with muted russet cardigan and grey trousers. I looked at him and thought, oh no this is like something my Granddad would wear, […]

Warhol was a man of few words and wielded an antique polaroid camera and insistently took polaroids which he then dropped on the floor, without looking at them. I said ‘Are you going to open the polaroids Andy? He said, ‘No, I like them to cook because the colour becomes more intense.’

The amazing thing about Phil Collins is that for a not especially tall or classically handsome man he really knows how to respond to the camera. In a subtle way he has real  presence on film. I don’t know if  the fact that he was an actor first is part of  that magnetism but its […]

I first met Mick Ronson’s when I was photographing Mott The Hoople at a Chelsea studio in London in 1974. Although I was photographing the whole band I was struck by Mick’s classical Byronesque looks so I asked him if he would mind if I took some solo portraits after we finished the band shoot. […]

I was photographing Geschi for Harpers and I thought; Wow this is one powerful German woman, a force like a Valkyrie. I asked her in the same context of mythical thinking (deep in the peace-love-dove era). “What sign are you?” I was shooting from the floor up at her on a podium, which made her […]

I flew to NYC to photograph Laila Ali, the stunning boxer and daughter of legend Mohammed Ali. Laila arrived with her entourage, swept into the dressing room. She gave my assistants and me just a fleeting glance. She was accompanied by some really tough looking boxer friends, who stopped and looked at me up and […]

I met the legendary Tony Curtis through the iconic hairdresser Leonard. Although he was twenty years older than me, we … More Fashion editor Grace Coddington was my reluctant model  when the model that Vogue had booked got lost cycling along the … More I went to The Savoy Hotel in London for a US […]