Just before The Royal Academy of Arts opened its doors to the public to see the Rubens and His Legacy exhibition I caught up with the curator Arturo Galansino in front of the two metre square painting A hunt of lions, tigers and leopards (1615-1618). I say caught up as he was running from room…
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Top Secret isn’t the name of the client, I mean I’m not telling you. To be honest, it is all my clients: As part of the head shots and portrait package I offer ‘Basic retouching’ within the quote. This means I remove spots, shaving cuts, I lighten the bags under the eyes, whiten the teeth…
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The Patchwork Foundation, a charity that aims to highlight best practice in under-represented, deprived and minority community engagement, held its MP of The Year Awards to that end. An MP from each party is nominated by grassroots community organisations which goes to a judging panel. The Rt Hon Eric Pickles (Secretary of State for Communities…
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Dan Wilson and Marc Almond were a couple of the guest performers at the ASCAP 2014 Awards. Dan Wilson who co-wrote “Someone Like You” with Adele, performed the song solo and even without Adele’s great voice the song still has a lot of power. Marc didn’t disappoint either with his ‘Tainted Love’. Mouth open or…
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If you want to restore a listed building but you also want to incorporate modern acoustics, lighting and thermodynamics you’d call a good architect. But who is the architect going to call for help with the effects of, say, the annual sunpath or potential groundwater temperatures on the heating designs? Skelly & Couch, that’s who!…
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ITF invited a delegation from China to the UK to talk about transport and in particular how the high speed trains are run. We travelled from King’s Cross St Pancras down to Ashford in the driver’s cabin… None of the delegation jumped up and down shouting ‘Yippee! I’m in the driver’s cabin on a high…
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Art on the Underground commissioned the British artist Richard Wentworth to create new work as part of Transport for London’s centenary commemorations of the First World War and asked me to produce the press images to release to publications interested in publishing the story (Here is what Creative review used). Did you see the poster?…
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Up Side Up is where you can find (and buy) interesting objects that are made by graphic designers. It’s similar to kickstarter where the ideas Up Side Up love will get developed into production runs if enough people hit the buy button. I have made a few videos for them and it’s not just a…
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Tyne & Wear Museum (Hatton Gallery) were down at Tate Modern for a reception to celebrate the artist, Richard Hamilton and the large exhibition of Hamilton’s work on display. In the 1950s and ’60s Hamilton was an academic at Newcastle University where his exhibitions like ‘Man, Machine & Motion’ still reverberate around their Hatton Gallery.…
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I now have a Nikon D4s (after a battle with the insurance company) so everything is back on track. It gave impressive results after it’s first outing to photograph the Opportunity Now Awards hosted by Alice Arnold at The Brewery. Opportunity Now is a membership organisation representing employers who want to transform the workplace by ensuring…
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