Los Angeles April 2016

April 30, 2016 in Actors Headshots, Los Angeles, New York, Portraiture, Works, Expressive

April saw me spending three weeks back over the pond in Los Angeles, leading me to dub the city my second home. This avenue of photography has really taken off for my business. Back in 2014 it accounted for barely 2% of my work load. Now, in 2016, 15% of my assignments take place in the City of Angels.

Major John Melville Military Portrait Sitting

March 30, 2016 in Military Portrait, London, Liverpool, Leeds, Los Angeles, New York, Portraiture

Major John Melville late of the Commandos and now serving in The Royal Artillery commissioned a Military Portrait at Barracks in Liverpool. It was wonderful to meet John and great to speak to him about his incredible career.

Lieutenant General Poffley Portrait Sitting

February 16, 2016 in Army General, Featured Sitting, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Military Portrait, Portraiture, Soldiery, Top Moment, Top Clients

Lt General Mark Poffley O.B.E very graciously accepted my invitation to sit for a portrait at the M.O.D London Headquarters in WhiteHall. Poffley was commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1985.

Brigadier Günter Eisl Portrait Sitting (Austrian Embassy London)

January 27, 2016 in Army General, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Military Portrait, New York, Portraiture, Advertising, Corporate Commission, Charity

Austrian General & Defence Attaché to UK, Brigadier Günter Eisl commissioned a portrait at the Austrian Embassy in London. I am no stranger to working with members of the British Armed forces; it was a nice change to photograph a soldier from the Austrian Military.

Toby Jones Actor Portraits

January 26, 2016 in Actors Headshots, Celebrity, Featured Sitting, London, Portraitist, Portraiture, Top Moment

Toby Jones is one of the UK’s most prolific actors, After appearing in supporting roles in films between 1992 and 2005, Jones made his breakthrough as Truman Capote in the biopic Infamous.

Julian Bleach Portrait Sitting

January 10, 2016 in Actors Headshots, London, Featured Sitting, Expressive, Portraitist, Portraiture, Top Moment

Actor Julian Bleach accepted my invitation to sit for a Portrait at the London Studio. Julian is best known as co-creator and “MC” of Shockheaded Peter, a musical entertainment based on the works of Heinrich Hoffmann, which won the 2002 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.

Major General Tim Robinson CBE Portrait Sitting

November 15, 2015 in Army General, Featured Sitting, London, Los Angeles, Military Portrait, Portraiture, Soldiery, Top Clients, Top Moment

Retiring from the Army senior military leader Major General Tim Robinson CBE, commissioned a portrait at Army Head quarters in Andover. With a military career spanning two decades, seeing active service and leading troops in Iraq, Bosnia and Northern Ireland.

Photo Professional Magazine Interview's Rory Lewis, #Issue 111

October 29, 2015 in Portraiture, Expressive, Interview, London

Thank you to Terry Hope at Photo Professional Magazine, interviewing me about my Expressive Exhibition which opens on 29th October 2015 at Calumet Photographic in London. The article features my portrait of Actor Sir Ian McKellen captured in London. The portrait among over 30 others will hang until 31st November 2015. Interview transcript below.

Lieutenant General Sir James Everard KCB, CBE Portrait Sitting

October 16, 2015 in Military Portrait, London, Liverpool, Leeds, Los Angeles, Portraiture, Soldiery, Army General, Featured Sitting, Top Moment, Top Clients

Lieutenant general Sir James Everard Commander Army Land Forces, graciously accepted my offer of a portrait sitting at Army Head Quarters in Andover.

Andrew J Robinson Portrait Sitting

October 10, 2015 in Star Trek, Portraiture, Expressive, Featured Sitting, Celebrity, Los Angeles

My Expressive Portraits Exhibition is enabling me to seek out opportunities to undertake Portrait Sittings with some impressive stars of stage, screen and TV. This has necessitated a fair amount of hopping back and forth across the Atlantic as I aim to bring a depth to the exhibition that would not be possible by staying on English turf only. I first wrote to impressive Director and compelling Actor, Andrew J Robinson, hoping to include him in a Los Angeles trip last September.

Estonian Ambassador H.E Lauri Bambus

September 25, 2015 in Ambassador, Featured Sitting, Portraiture, London, Works, Charity, Corporate Headshots, Corporate Commission, Political Portraits

Estonian Ambassador H.E Lauri Bambus arrived in the UK, to take up his position as Ambassador of Estonia to the United Kingdom. The Ambassadors Office needed a portrait to represent the Lauri on the Embassy’s website and in any Diplomatic Literature and Press Releases. Commissioning me for the task I Arranged the portrait sitting at the Estonian Embassy in London.

H.E Pasquale Terricciato Ambassador of Italy Portrait Sitting

September 23, 2015 in Ambassador, London, Liverpool, Leeds, Los Angeles, New York, Portraiture, Charity, Political Portraits, Corporate Commission, Corporate Headshots, Works, Top Clients, Top Moment

Ambassador Pasquale Terricciato who represents the Republic of Italy. Arranged a portrait sitting at the Italian Residence in London. Upon entering the building I could sense its history, the Ambassador very kindly gave me a personal tour.

René Auberjonois Portrait Sitting

September 10, 2015 in Actors Headshots, Featured Sitting, Los Angeles, Portraiture, Expressive, Star Trek, Top Moment

René Auberjonois has an instantly recognisable face which I believe becomes better and better with age. Star of stage and screen Auberjonois, has appeared in M.A.S.H, Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Boston Legal to name but a few titles. I wrote to René several months ago to arrange the sitting in Los Angeles, and to my wonderment, he agreed to sit for a portrait during my visit to LA a few weeks ago.

Mark & Jacqueline Margolis

September 07, 2015 in Actors Headshots, Los Angeles, Portraiture, Featured Sitting, Celebrity, Top Moment

As luck would have it while on assignment in Los Angeles Actor Mark Margolis, and his wife Actress Jacqueline Margolis where staying in the same Studio City hotel. I recognised Mark in the lobby having a sneaky cigarette, and introduced myself, he was very approachable and chatty. Mark has starred in dozens & dozens of films, from 1492 to Hannibal, The Wrestler and of course Scarface.

H.E. Diego Gómez Pickering – KCVO Ambassador of Mexico

July 22, 2015 in Ambassador, Works, London, Portraiture, Featured Sitting, Corporate Commission, Advertising, Charity, Political Portraits, Corporate Headshots, Top Clients, Top Moment

Ambassadors is a new project, driven by my passion for Historical Portraiture. The work will comprise of Ambassadors portraits from each political embassy in London. My first sitting took place in July with Ambassador of Mexico H.E. Diego Gómez Pickering.

Lord Mayor of Liverpool Cllr Tony Concepcion

July 09, 2015 in Liverpool, Portraiture, Works, Manchester, London, Leeds, Advertising

This week as part of my ongoing project to photograph each new Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Lord Mayor Cllr Tony Concepcion, very graciously posed for my lens at the Liverpool Town Hall this week.

Erica Kemp Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Liverpool City Council|)

July 01, 2015 in Liverpool, London, Leeds, Corporate Commission, Featured Sitting, Portraiture, Political Portraits, Northerners, Los Angeles, Charity, Advertising, Top Clients, Top Moment

Liverpool City Council commissioned a Portrait of the new Lord Mayor of Liverpool Councillor Erica Kemp CBE. Over the past few months I have been fascinated by the use of hands in my portraits, I asked the Mayor if she could clasp her hands in the image.

William Hague Portrait Sitting

June 14, 2015 in London, Featured Sitting, Political Portraits, Northerners, Portraiture

Baron Hague, at for a portrait to be included in my Northerners Exhibition. His name is synonymous with modern political discourse, but to meet him in person, you would not think it. He is a very witty man who was reeling jokes off through the entire sitting.

Steven Berkoff Portrait Sitting

May 24, 2015 in Actors Headshots, Featured Sitting, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Portraitist, Portraiture, Expressive, Top Moment

Steven Berkoff is an English actor who has also enjoyed prominent success as an author, playwright and theatre director. Often cast as the ‘big bad’ in his films, he has appeared in the likes of Rambo: First Blood Part II, Octopussy and as Adolf Hitler in the TV mini-series War and Remembrance.

Brent Spiner Portrait Sitting

March 10, 2015 in Actors Headshots, Celebrity, Expressive, Featured Sitting, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, New York, Portraiture, Top Moment

Many may not know, that despite living in my home town of Liverpool and having my studio in the city, I work both Nationally and Internationally. Actor Brent Spiner, who best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.