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 […]

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 […]

I am delighted to announce we have reached just under (by a glorious £2.00!) 50% of our kickstarter crowdfunding goal … More After Art School in 1966  I worked stoking boilers at a local telephone exchange from 6am until 2pm – just so I could paint in the afternoons. I then  got a job at […]

Paul called me and said “Clive I need you to take some pictures for my new album, Wings A The Speed of Sound” and I said ‘Wow, cool title.” Then a few days later at the studio in Chelsea Paul, Linda, Denny Laine, Jimmy McCulloch and Joe English all came to the studio in Chelsea. I […]

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.’