Chiswick Mall runs along the side of the river Thames (the river that winds its way through the City of London on to the open sea). The road that follows the river in Chiswick is lined with beautiful Georgian listed houses. Opposite each imposing house there are the private gardens that correspond to each house […]

I had a great time presenting my work at The Photography Show in Birmingham, which is the largest photography show in Europe. I hadn’t expected such a large crowd so it was great to meet so many great people who really, really love photography. Albert Watson was on before me and Nadav Kander was on after and he […]

It reminds me of Marlon Brando’s remark from On The Waterfront, when a character says “Are you looking for trouble” and Brando replies “What have you got?”. Mick looked like a streetwise New Yorker, who was ahead of the game. He certainly didn’t look like a quiet working class lad from Hull (in the North […]

There are those rare occasions in life where you are literally completely arrested by the presence of another human being. The moment I met Waris Dirie I knew she was a live wire, a presence, a spark, a light and a heroine. Anyway whatever the words may be I knew I wasn’t just dealing with […]

 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.

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 […]

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.’

Liv Tyler DE Beers shoot Liv and her mother BB Buell were in London and we met for dinner. I had met and known BB for a long time in the past, as she’d modeled for British Vogue and me back in the day. That week I was shooting an ad campaign for De Beers […]

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 […]

David walked onto the studio back drop, I didn’t say a word and he just started looking over his shoulder and slowly revolving, going through a series of movements and I just kept on shooting. I didn’t want to miss a thing.

It was a fraught and adventurous shoot, it has to be said, I risked life and limb by hanging over the edge of the top of the spiral staircase, with assistants holding my legs and jeans belt so I didn’t come to an untimely end.

I first saw the enigmatic Marianne Faithful at the studios of the iconic music show Ready, Steady, Go! where she’d gone to  sing Ruby Tuesday.  I met her in the Green Room after her performance. I said hello and talked to her and she seemed so demure, beautiful and quiet. I said  “I would really […]

When I was asked to shoot these images for Ritz Magazine I was really excited by the opportunity to work with Issey Miyake’s  latest sculptural clothes. I love innovation, particularly in design as I come from an art school background.  I could immediately see the potential in these incredible clothes. In my imagination I thought Miyake […]

The art director of Harpers said me, “There is this really beautiful girl who is writing about alternative culture and we want to do a feature on hippies.” “What’ I said ‘Hippies for Harpers” I was amazed that they would consider doing something that was so trendy. “Her name is Caroline Coon”, he continued “and […]