Uptown Ranking

Here's Ranking Roger from The Beat doing his thing a few weeks ago. After the gig he teased me for only photographing him after he took his top off. That's nearly true (see photo 1 as evidence in my favour) but he only wore a top for about 10 seconds so I didn't have much choice. Still doing it though. The ladies went wild and I am not joking. Wild.

House & Garden

This is Kyle Scorgie, a student at RCA. She weaves rugs from horses tails. Doesn't everyone I hear you say? Well no, they don't. They're woven and dyed very traditionally by hand. Quite incredible. 

Francesca Martinez

I photographed Francesca at home for the Telegraph's 'World Of' article. It's about the subject and their most treasured possessions. There was plenty to photograph at Francesca's, including this beautiful portrait painted by Francesca's artist brother.

Belton House

Belton House is a real corker of a National Trust property and only an hour out of London on the train, http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/belton-house/.  The grounds are beautiful and so vast. Though in true British style, on a rare hot day this Summer when I visited the majority of people were enjoying their lunch on fold out seats in the car park. Good old Brits!

 

Floating Boaters

These portraits were published in the Independent magazine a few Saturdays ago. The article was about the community of canal boat owners living in Hackney and the areas surrounding the Olympic Park who were being moved on to "tidy up" the area for the duration of the games. Why canal boats are considered untidy is anyone's guess. At the time of publication the situation remained unresolved.

Crystal Palace Pool

I think Crystal Palace Pool might be my favourite place in London. Despite being in zone 43 and not particularly easy to get to I love going there. I'm sure lots of people hate the building, its very brutal and unforgiving but I love it with its wooden floors and huge concrete girders and massive windows letting the light stream in.

 

 If the building and 50m pool wasn't reason enough to go the Brazilian Olympic swimming team are using the pool for practice at the moment. They're swishing about, arriving in blacked out vans like the good people of Penge have a clue who they are. I keep hoping a member of staff might mistake me for a lost Brazilian but sadly not yet.

Henry

This image has just been selected to be part of the AOP Open Award which I'm really excited about. Thanks for posing for me Henry!