Editorial Portraits
Featured on this page is a selection of my editorial portrait work, both old and new. I have been covering news events and stories for a number of years and the beauty of this job is that you get to meet some fantastic people along the way. Following on this page are a some portraits taken within my time as a press photographer for press agencies and national papers, with a brief caption that accompanied each image when transmitted for selection.
Ryan Bell pictured here with his daughter was the star of a reality TV show called Second Chance. He was an teenage underachiever who was taken out of his deprived inner London school and placed into a £16,000 a year private school as part of a social experiment. Ryan did very well at the school before being controversially expelled after taking part in a drinking binge with classmates.
Pictured is 72-year-old wildlife enthusiast Roy Allner, who has taken pictures of a Red Deer Stag that may be a contender for the Exmoor Emperor's title of the biggest Wild Animal in the United kingdom. His pictures taken in the New Forrest National Park are of a massive stag with his antlers clearly showing up to 15 points. This may prove that the Emperor was perhaps not the biggest wild animal in Britain and that there are bigger beasts in the wilds of the English countryside. Roy who lives in Bournemouth spends three days a week exploring the National Park with his Camera.
Local Allotment Owner Puran Sanichara shows off his potato crop with the setting sun in the background. Turning soil as early as 0530am Puran is an obsessive veg grower often finishing his day on the allotment as late as 10 o'Clock in the evening.
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf poses for my camera at one of his close friend's home on a trip to London.
Pictured is Sir Willard White, a Jamaican born Bass-Baritone singer. Photographed on the 29th April 2010 for a feature in the Irish Independent on Sunday.
A member of 880 Troop, Royal Marines Recruits from the Commando Training Center at Lympstone in Devon is pictured here on Exercise in Sennybridge, Wales. Exercise Violent Entry aims to teach the recruits the basics of fighting in Urban Areas.
Racing driver legend Sir Stirling Moss is pictured in the hallway of his Mayfair home. The 80 year old looks in great health despite having recently been involved in a racing accident in the United States. He was driving a RS61 vintage Porsche at the time when his car was hit by a fellow racer in a vintage Lotus. Only a few months earlier Sir Moss had an accident at home when he fell down his lift shaft, however, he was back to racing shortly afterwards.
Emmanuel Odonkor, a 46-year-old Trainee Chef from Hove near Brighton won an employment tribunal against his previous employers, an exclusive restaurant called Fishy Fishy that is part owned by TV presenter Dermot O'Leary. The establishment is situated near the seafront of the popular seaside town of Brighton. Mr Odonkor won his case due to the owners failure to appear and he was awarded a Default Judgement Payment for the dispute over his contracted hours.
A Royal Marines Commando pictured here on exercise in Devon during his Junior Command Course. The JCC as it's known is designed to put commando's through their paces in order to gain promotion to Corporal.
Pictured at her beautiful home in the village of Charwood, just a stones throw from Gatwick Airport is Michelle Jones (37). A self employed Health and Beauty Consultant, Michelle takes part in an online scheme that facilitates the hiring out of private space to people looking for alternative and convenient off airport parking. Mrs Jones who advertises her venture through the website parkatmyhouse.co.uk has had her local council sending her threatening letters and snooping around her property in a big-brother style campaign to stop her offering this service. She has room for up to seven cars at any one time and charges just £4 a day of which the website takes on average 15%.
Dan Beedell (30), a Youth Pastor from Ashford is pictured with his wife Tracey Beedell (24). Dan became a hostage in the Barclays Bank in Ashford, Surrey when a 30-year-old man walked in armed with a shotgun and held 16 people hostage on Monday the 28th June 2010. Dan was told by the gunman to put on a white boiler suit while he pressed a shotgun against his head. The gunman had entered the bank wearing a similar white boiler suit and dust mask at around 4pm. It all ended when Police negotiators managed to persuade the man to end his siege after 3 hours.
