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When I Was A Photographer - For The Love Of A Fence
When I Was A Photographer - For The Love Of A Fence
Back in the '90s when I was a photographer, I loved fences. However even back then their use in photography was considered cheesy. I didn't care though, and I still don't, even though I was trying to be
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When I Was A Photographer - A Touch Of Opium
When I Was A Photographer - A Touch Of Opium
I love these pictures for a couple of reasons, first they achieve a certain level of intimacy that is hard to recreate. The model (Lisa) wanted to make a calendar for her then boyfriend, and so we took
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When I Was A Photographer - When Cryptogee Met Corinne
When I Was A Photographer - When Cryptogee Met Corinne
I met Corinne Day on the same night I met Chris Eubank and unfortunately on that night I had three rolls of film stolen from my jacket pocket, with the only surviving roll being in my camera. It was an
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When I Was A Photographer - When Cryptogee Met Chris
When I Was A Photographer - When Cryptogee Met Chris
I met ex-middleweight champion boxer Chris Eubank one night after a show during fashion week. Unfortunately the only picture of him to survive that night is this one, which is probably one of the worst
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When I Was A Photographer - An Urban Flower
When I Was A Photographer - An Urban Flower
As you may know if you've been following this series, I went through a period of being obsessed with ugly beauty. That is to say beautiful and delicate things that had been juxtaposed by a harsh reality,
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When I Was A Photographer - A Brief Passing Of Time
When I Was A Photographer - A Brief Passing Of Time
I took this photo during my cinematic period, the obsession with the romance of film had over taken me and everywhere I went and everything I looked at reminded me of a film I had seen. I decided that
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When I Was A Photographer - Reclaim The Streets
When I Was A Photographer - Reclaim The Streets
Back in the days when I was an idealistic youngster, I suppose I was something of a hippy. Even though I was born in the 70s and not the 60s, I still felt like I embodied the spirit of that decade. The
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When I Was A Photographer - The Art Of The Nude
When I Was A Photographer - The Art Of The Nude
When I lived in this house, every morning I would go to the bathroom to prepare for the day and each and every day without fail I would marvel at the beautiful dappled light that streamed in the window.
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When I Was A Photographer - The Desolate Beauty Of Ugliness
When I Was A Photographer - The Desolate Beauty Of Ugliness
As I've mentioned before, when I was a photographer I was really into a thing called ugly beauty. I was obsessed with taking pictures of delicate and beautiful things, in a harsh setting. The top photo
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When I Was A Photographer - The Angel Of Grenfell
When I Was A Photographer - The Angel Of Grenfell
I love this picture so much for a number of reasons, firstly, as ever, it reminds me of very happy times. The model in the picture is the sister of a very old friend of mine, she was 15 at the time and
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When I Was A Photographer - When Cryptogee Met The Fugees
When I Was A Photographer - When Cryptogee Met The Fugees
I entered the world of photography by becoming an assistant to a friend who was a photographer at the time. Even though it hardly paid a penny throughout the two years that I did it, I still enjoyed it
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When I Was A Photographer - My One Day Modelling Career
When I Was A Photographer - My One Day Modelling Career
You should never ever feel like you are unattractive or old, because when you look back at yourself in twenty years time, you'll wonder why on earth you felt like that in the first place. These are pictures
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When I Was A Photographer - Two Girls In A Bath
When I Was A Photographer - Two Girls In A Bath
Having lived all of my adult life in West and Northwest London, the Notting Hill Carnival has always been a part of me, so much so that in the last thirty or so years I can remember missing only one or
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When I Was A Photographer - Capturing Vulnerability
When I Was A Photographer - Capturing Vulnerability
While going through my pictures recently my daughter held up a strip of film and asked; "What's this daddy?" I had to explain to her that the strip of film was once part of a roll, and that roll
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When I Was A Photographer - Film Noir With Camilla Rutherford
When I Was A Photographer - Film Noir With Camilla Rutherford
It always helps to have well known friends if you want to make it as a photographer. Of course just having famous buddies is not enough, however it tends to help when it comes to getting your pictures
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When I Was A Photographer - When Cryptogee Met Kate
When I Was A Photographer - When Cryptogee Met Kate
Strictly speaking this wasn't the first time I met Kate Moss, that day was around a couple of years or so before this photograph was taken. Thinking back on that meeting, I realise that's why Kate was
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When I Was A Photographer - The Day I Met Snoop
When I Was A Photographer - The Day I Met Snoop
Back in the day I was a photographer, I got into it because I had a dream that I wanted to be a filmmaker. I thought that it would be a good route into that world if I learned about light and composition.

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