DARK with light - a personal project

DARK with light - is a personal project loosely based on English Pastoral Paintings. I grew up watching my father painting landscapes in oil, since then, I've always loved landscape paintings by Turner, Constable, Girtin and Gainsborough. I've always been fascinated with Chiaroscuro and how the light passing through a window interacts with the rest of a room or how the light or sun interacts with trees, buildings or anything else in its path.

The Dark Side - While the eye is drawn to the bright areas in a photograph, I love the interplay between the dark and light or highlight and shadow. Mix this with some trees, nature and chaotic vegetation, and it evokes haunting, dreamy and mysterious imagery with a nod back to the great English pastoral painters.

To see more of the images on flickr click here

Charlotte Riley - Actress

I had a lovely day shooting the beautiful Charlotte Riley last week. Charlotte called me to see if I could fit her in for a quick photo session before she flew off to shoot a new series for American Television. Charlotte is probably best known for her part in Wuthering Hieghts as Catherine.

We needed somewhere nice and interesting to do the shoot and it just so happened that Charlotte and her fiancé Tom Hardy had booked into one of London's uber cool hotels in Soho for the week to do some press for Tom's new movie Warrior. So that worked out nicely for us and gave me a lovely backdrop for Charlotte's portraits.

Would the real Jalaal Hartley please step forward

This is the second time I've had the pleasure of shooting Jalaal Hartley, Jalaal is an actor, he also writes for television under his pen name and directs in the theatre, he's one of the funniest people I've had the pleasure of working with, I just have to look at him and I burst out laughing. It's difficult to know when Jalaal's being serious, he's just one of these funny guy's. Every time I point my camera at him I see something different.

We shot Jalaal at his home in West London using available light both inside and on the roof.