I shot these phots on a Linhof 5×4 plate camera for Hearst Magazines – it was a story about the … More Even when I asked her if I could pour water over her head. She said yes and then my assistant was duly instructed to stand on a tall ladder and sprinkle water over […]

Lovely to see this picture on the cover of the Western Mail weekend magazine. You never stop being thrilled at … More This was one of my first photographic jobs when I was still an Art Director. I had known Paul McCartney … More

My assistants placed the improvised cross on my shoulders and helped me down from the top studio down to Beatrice Millers office, where she was conducting a meeting with a dignitary from the National Portrait gallery. Spurred on by tequila I burst into the office, one foot in the bucket of pink yoghurt, which splashed […]

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 […]

Once we arrived at the Baths I had my assistants set up a flash unit, suspended over the Roman Bath on a boom. This would not have got past health and safety today and I was really nervous incase the boom failed, fell into the water and electrocuted Peter and myself.

The scene reminded me of an Andrew Wythe painting that I had always adored and had influenced me so much in my own painting and into photography. I felt the extraordinary poetic beauty of the synchronicity of being in the same landscape he had viewed and which had inspired him and now inspired me.

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 […]