Uchujin -The Blog

I recently shot a very sweet Japanese ‘talento’ girl, 竹村乃亜 (Takemura Noa) for her portfolio and web site.
She was a real pleasure to work with and I’m very happy with the way the photos turned out.

Huge thanks to Nathan Shanahan for the studio space and seamless backdrop at such short notice.

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My new Portfolio site is live.

The idea was to provide a minimal number of photographs within an uncluttered interface and larger photos to allow clients to get a quick overview of my work without being faced with the 200 plus images on my main site.
If that was the brief I’m reasonably confident that that is what I have achieved.

Feel free to leave me a comment or critique.

Peshawar, Pakistan April 2001 , 5 months before, well ok we all know before what.
There I was, hanging out in the wild west, staying in a cramped dorm in the only safe hotel in town, beds so close together they were touching, falling asleep to the sound of gunfire every night.

I’d met a fellow Englishman a few days before (I’m embarrased to say I can’t remember his name, sorry brother), a nice guy, he’d been in Peshawar for a while, waiting for an Iranian visa, if memory serves me better on this point than it does on the fellows name.
(As an aside, if from this perspective in 2009, hanging out on the Afghan border with an English guy who was going to Iran seem pretty odd – wait, it gets better :)

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Well, well, it seems that being threatened with legal action really does work occasionally, especially when the person being threatens knows they have f&^ked up.
The agency in question have, after several weeks of not contacting me, agreed to pay up over this debacle.
A sum acceptable to all parties has been agreed on.
I’m obviously very happy, but the victory feels hollow, trust and respect for the parties involved has been irrevocably damaged.
Im sure it will feel less hollow when I get my new lens though ;-)

Same two pictures, but now I’m also featured on the UT store Uniqlo homepage.

http://ut.uniqlo.com/stylist

I should be happy about it, but there is still a bad taste in my mouth concerning this.
No more money as yet.

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