At the end of August I spent a frantic 36hrs rushing between restaurants in Alicante – my goal was to make a set of photographs to accompany a report by writer Jessica Vincent about the city’s myriad rice dishes. This borderline obsession with rice has led local restaurateurs, with the help...
With international travel off the agenda, over the last year and a half I’ve been fortunate to see an uptick in assignments here in Spain. It’s been refreshing to travel around the country by car, exploring new regions, often with my family alongside me. The most satisfying development has been...
Way back in May 2015, I flew half way around the planet; two days after stepping out of my front door, I touched down in Townsville (a coastal town in North Queensland) feeling slightly dazed, and aware that the following morning I would be embarking on what promised to be...
Photographically, this assignment was very much portrait-led. It’s always a challenge working in a new city. My job was to find suitable locations for portraits in the 30-40 minutes that Steve had to interview each contributor to the story. Sometimes this involved searching adjacent streets, but there were also appointments...
Just over a week ago, I spent a hectic Friday zipping around Langdale in England’s Lake District, documenting ARUP’s ‘Dig Deep’ adventure race for the second consecutive year. Teams representing top UK construction firms battled it out on foot, mountain bike and kayak to claim the title, and to raise money...
Back in April I travelled to the Albanian capital city Tirana with writer Simon Kuper. Our plan was to find out about how the people of this small nation in south east Europe felt about their country’s first ever appearance in a major soccer tournament, Euro 2016. The resulting feature...
Alongside writer Alicia Kirby, I visited Italy’s beautiful northern coastline to photograph the headquarters of Technogym, the renowned producers of gym equipment. Our mission was to confirm rumours that the Italian company’s HQ was one of the best places in the world to work. The feature was for online platform Amuse,...
Back in March, I spent 4 days in the Galician town of A Coruña with journalist Beatriz Aranda. Our goal was to find out about daily life in this coastal city by meeting local inhabitants. The assignment was for an extended feature in Iberia Airlines ‘Ronda’ magazine. The city is definitely...
In advance of Real Madrid’s fixture with Liverpool in the Champion’s League, I went to Valdebebas with writer Sid Lowe to meet club favourite and Spain national team captain, Iker Casillas. Sometimes on shoots like this, time is of the essence, and you have to pull a rabbit out of a...
I’ve wanted to shoot for Monocle Magazine for a long time, so it was great to finally get this opportunity. I teamed up with the magazine’s Spain correspondent Liam Aldous, spending a morning with the controversial former high court judge, Baltasar Garzón. Well known in Spain for investigating political corruption,...
I had a great time photographing Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti at the club’s training ground in Valdebebas, for the FT Weekend Magazine. We were directed to a practice pitch in the far corner of the facility, and spent 30 minutes setting up. I shot a handful of setups in...