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 […]

I was in New York City working for Esquire, shooting a series called Rock Gods.  I was using a studio just off Madison Avenue. I decided to do the shoot against a black back-ground with the figures emerging from the shadows. The first portrait was Bryan Ferry, his latest album Boys And Girls had just […]

Lovely to see this picture on the cover of the Western Mail weekend magazine. You never stop being thrilled at … More I think without doubt designer Kansai Yamamoto will always have a very special place in my heart. He was then … More

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 shot Kirsten in the late 90s when she was promoting her fantastic BAFTA nominated performance in the English Patient which was an eery, moving and unsettling  film. Most particularly because she was left in the desert alone with nothing but a book of classical Greek poetry. She has the most endearing Celtic face, the […]

It has to be said that Friday nights launch of Peter Gabriel Reflections at The Museum of Bath Architecture was … More In my imagination I thought Miyake must have been influenced by the Marvel comics superhero Dr Doom (though I have no evidence of this) it’s just the flowing hooded cloak and the futuristic […]

I was really touched by this wonderful American landscape photographer Christopher Burkett’s  work. Christopher has devoted himself completely to a meditation on landscape photography and transferred these visions into stunning images of nature from across the USA shot in very fine detail. Christopher uses Cibachrome and 8 x 10″ negatives to create the stunning detail in […]

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.’ It has to […]

Grace Coddington rang me and said “We need to meet to talk about a trip to America with you and  Ann (Schaufuss). Can you come into Vogue for a production meeting. Parkinson is doing the West Coast and WE are doing the East Coast”. I was initially upset not to have the West Coast but […]

Willy also asked me to come up with a concept. I had been reading a lot about Egyptian mythology and was particularly fascinated by the falcon headed Egyptian God Horus . This fascination had begun after reading the Egyptian Book Of The Dead and taking acid with my assistant (affectionately known as The Wasp) at […]