Finding Direction

Lessons from the Olympics

I’m torn. I’ve lived in New Zealand for 28 years, and Australia for 4 years prior to that. Plus I’m married to an Aussie. But I’m a Brit with a Brit passport. Who to support in the Olympics? Then I received some imagery of athletes from UK photographer Sam Riley, and I found myself rooting

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Post review blues

If you’ve ever had your folio reviewed, whether at an event, online, or done the rounds of ad and design agencies, you may have experienced that wonderful post review euphoria. (They LOVED my work! They even contacted me! I am complete! ) But after the trillions of briefs failed to fly in the door (wait

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Who are your people?

As I write this Email I’m sitting at the Sherwood Hotel in Queenstown, New Zealand. The mountains beyond the veggie garden are snow clad. Firewood is being chopped somewhere in the distance. The music is damn good. I could have stayed at the more expensive Hilton Resort and spa. But this is my kind of

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Charisma is overrated

There’s a rumour out there that building great relationships with people in the ad world, getting them across the line on estimates, and continuing to work with them requires a certain amount of charm. It explains why I hear lots from photographers who curse their genetics and wish they were more charismatic. But it’s not

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You don’t know what you’re doing

I was sitting in a dark theatre, entranced by the black and white portrait on the screen. A freckle-faced Irish child with wonky teeth and a cloth cap crinkled his eyes as he looked into the lens of Dorothea Lange. It was 1954 and Lange had been on assignment for Time Life Magazine when she

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feet on a surfboad riding a wave

If you’re an outdoor adventure shooter

Yet another amazing outdoor lifestyle photographer followed me on Insta today. He was from New Zealand. And yesterday another in Scotland. Not surprising, that. Both countries have gorgeous mountains, lakes and ocean. What’s not to love? (Maybe the cold………but skiing!) These intrepid shooters keep emerging from the woodwork, (or more likely from the ice cave),

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A powerful vision

What’s the one word that describes you? At CA+, an online folio review event late last year several of the reviewers (art directors, creative directors and reps) asked photographers this question. They’re ideas people. Of course they did. Luckily most the photographers I’ve worked with could answer it- if not in one word, in a

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