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PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER MARCH 2011 G W. EUGENE SMITH G HERB RITTS G NICK HADDOW G BLOG PHOTOGRAPHY G




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                                                               I’ve spent a lot of time recently talking to photographers and readers, and I must say that it has been
                                                               particularly pleasing to hear how many of you are responding positively to what we are trying to do.
                                                               We have tried over the past year or so to create a magazine which not only inspires and informs but also
                                                               tells it as it is. No false promises, no false hopes, just the facts as they are from the people who know.
                                                               From what I have been hearing this is what you want, so we’re pleased to be able to bring you
                                                               another issue of what you say you want and need. One of the people who certainly doesn’t shy away from reality
                                                               is our sometime working pro Peter Dench. His diary seems to be building quite a following and, as ever, this
                                                               month he lays his photographic soul bare in the Dench Diary on Page 40.
                                                                 Another regular contributor, Martin Middlebrook, this month shares his experiences of the camaraderie of
                                                               photojournalists in Afghan Café on Page 37. I share my experiences of shooting my first book in Being There
                                (and thanks for all the kind comments I have received concerning this monthly column) in Bringing it All Back Home on Page 23.
                                And Clive Booth discovers the importance of blogs in this month’s
                                Dispatches on Page 32. To round up this issue’s outpouring
                                of personal experience we take a look at the growth of extremely
                                personal photography which we are seeing in both book form in
                                Me, Myself and I on Page 78 and in the blogging world in
                                The New Kid in Town on Page 94, as well as its importance in
                                a photographer’s life in The Personal Project on Page 72.
                                  The one name which most photographers agree on as being
                                among the true greats is W. Eugene Smith, which led us and
                                Peter Silverton to ask the question, “Was and is he the greatest
                                photographer of all time?” You can read Peter’s answer in the article
                                asking exactly that on Page 66. While we are talking about legendary
                                photographers who are sadly no longer with us it seemed like a good
                                time to reassess the work of Herb Ritts. He defined the visual aesthetic
                                of the 1980s and 1990s before his early death, but was being forgotten
                                until recently. You can find out more in Everyone’s Talking
                                About Herb Ritts on Page 58.
                                  Add to all of this an exclusive interview with fashion and portrait
                                photographer Nick Haddow on Page 88, the holy trinity
                                of wedding photographers Yervant, Jasmine Star
                                and Crash Taylor in a royal wedding
EDITOR’S IMAGE: MATT HALSTEAD




                                head-to-head on Page 83 and shooting
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                                hard drives with shotguns on Page 97,
                                and I believe you’ll agree that we are
                                delivering on all fronts and hopefully
                                getting it right most of the time.




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              57 Exposure
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              NEED TO KNOW
              23 Being There
              PP Editor Grant Scott recalls the experience of
              turning a personal project into an internationally
              published book.

              32 Dispatches
              Clive Booth talks about developing his brand,
              website and photographic touch points.

              37 Afghan Café
              Photojournalist Martin Middlebrook relives the
              camaraderie he found in Kabul with fellow
              photographers.

              40 The Dench Diary
              This month photojournalist Peter Dench judges a
              camera club and survives January, just!

              44 The World of Convergence
              Film maker John Campbell’s regular news-packed
              look at the world of convergence.

              47 Frontline
              We talk to legendary art director and former
              Pentagram partner David Hillman.

              55 Guess the Lighting
              Ever seen a great image and wanted to know how it
              was lit? Ted Sabarese explains all.

              58 Everyone’s Talking About
              Herb Ritts
              The legend of 1980s celebrity portraiture is
              remembered by those he helped make famous.                 Actress Carey Mulligan, taken by Nick Haddow. Discover his approach to photography in our interview on page 88.

              66 The Greatest Photographer
              of all Time...
              The answer is simple. The answer is W. Eugene Smith.       INTERVIEWS WITH...                                         98 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2
              .                                                                                                                     Is it a stills camera? Is it a video camera?
              78 Me, Myself and I                                        72 The Personal Project                                    Award-winning photojournalist Kieran Doherty gets
              PP Editor Grant Scott has had enough of                    Dmitri Kasterine’s photographic life has been one.         his hands on this gem of a camera to find out.
              introspective photography and so has photography           Now in his 70s, he is having his work rediscovered.
              publisher Dewi Lewis. They both explain why and                                                                       103 Stop Press...
              what they believe to be the reasons for the fashion.       88 Let There Be Light                                      The latest essential news, gossip and kit from the
                                                                         An exclusive interview with Scottish fashion and           pro world.
              83 The Royal Wedding                                       portrait photographer Nick Haddow.
              Slamdown
              Three of the biggest names in wedding photography
              tell us how they’d shoot the wedding of the decade.        NEWS & REVIEWS                                             KEEP IN TOUCH
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              94 The New Kid in Town                                     14 Click                                                   Check out our latest subscription offers across all
              Blog photography is fast becoming the new platform         This month’s line-up of the best news, dreams,             our photography titles.
              for photographic curation. PP Editor Grant Scott           themes and photographic schemes, plus our pick of
              wants to find out more about the world of reblogging.      this month’s photographic exhibitions in the UK.           28 Podcast
                                                                                                                                    Free photographic discussion for the masses.
NICK HADDOW




              114 Legend                                                 97 The Hard Drive Must Die
              We look at the great lost talent that was British          Take a hard drive and a shotgun and see which              53 Feedback
              photojournalist Tony Ray-Jones.                            wins. It’s a simple formula with a surprising result.      Your thoughts, your opinions, your page.

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David Hillman                                        Peter Dench                                                                     Yervant                                                                           Ted Sabarese
Art director                                         Photographer                                                                    Photographer                                                                      Photographer
David is an iconic figure in the world               Peter is fast becoming a Twitter                                                Born in Ethiopia, Yervant won his                                                 Ted shoots all kinds of people, but
of graphic and editorial design.                     sensation due to his regular, witty                                             first photography award at the age                                                especially relishes working with
Having art directed Nova, designed                   tweets. Yet he still finds time to write                                        of 11, and in turn the admiration of                                              non-professional models and actors
the Sunday Times Magazine, created                   The Dench Diary for PP each month,                                              the Emperor Haile Selassie. In 1975                                               who don’t fit society’s traditional
the graphic identity for the Guardian                feature in our monthly podcasts                                                 he moved to Melbourne where,                                                      definition of beauty. His personal
and been a partner at the legendary                  and continue his career as an                                                   after leaving college, he went on                                                 and fine art work has won critical
design firm, Pentagram, his                          award-winning photojournalist.                                                  to become a master wedding                                                        acclaim for its conceptual and
impressive CV has seen him work                      Such has been the success of his                                                photographer and scooped the 2010                                                 graphic nature and been exhibited in
with many of the last century’s                      contributions to the magazine that he                                           WPPI Lifetime Achievement Award.                                                  US and other international galleries.
greatest photographers, from Man                     is now considering merchandising                                                This month in PP, on page 83, he                                                  As well as shooting for commercial
Ray to Helmut Newton. David brings                   opportunities. If you have yet to enter                                         takes on two fellow legends of                                                    and advertising clients, he also
all of this experience to his advice in              Peter’s world, do so by reading his                                             wedding photography to see who                                                    guesses how other people light their
this month’s Frontline on page 47.                   diary on page 40.                                                               can get the royal wedding gig.                                                    shots. Find out more on page 55.



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                                                                20th-century boys
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                                                                A new encyclopedia of the finest
                                                                monographs by 20th-century photographers
                                                                showcases such important photographers as
                                                                Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus and Cecil Beaton.
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                                                                still producing new work; however, what they
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                                                                the art form. Photographers A-Z features
                                                                facsimiles from books and magazines and is

          Word on the street                                    authored by German photography writer
                                                                Hans-Michael Koetzle.
          The inaugural London Street Photography               Photographers A-Z, by Hans-Michael
          Festival will take place this summer – from           Koetzle, published by Taschen, £44.99,
          7 to 17 July – but deadlines for the accompanying     ISBN: 978-3-8365-1109-4. www.taschen.com
          awards are looming. The competition, to
          determine the best emerging and worldwide
          street photographers, is divided into two
          categories – a UK student award and an
          international award. The deadline for both
          sections is 31 March. The festival itself will
          feature a diverse programme of exhibitions
          and interactive events at London venues,
          including the National Portrait Gallery, the V&A
          Museum, the British Library and St Pancras
          International train station. Highlights include the
          first UK exhibition of recently-discovered work
          by secret street photographer Vivian Maier,
          from Chicago, whose pictures were only
          discovered after her death, as well as work by
          photographer David Gibson.
          For more details and a full festival programme
          visit www.londonstreetphotographyfestival.org

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German photographers Frank Bayh and Steff
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                                                                                                                                               Don’t Touch My Universe.




              Dench at Derby                                                                       Sony World Photo 2011
              In the last edition of Click we
                                                                                                   short list announced
              previewed FORMAT, the                                                                The Sony World Photography Awards 2011 short list has
              Derby-based photography                                                              been announced with 15 categories in the professional
              festival, from 4 March to                                                            competition under three genres: Photojournalism &
              3 April. Fans of our regular                                                         documentary, commercial and fine art. Short-listed
              feature The Dench Diary will                                                         photographers come from as far away as Afghanistan,
              be pleased to know images                                                            Argentina and China, with several UK photographers
              from England Uncensored                                                              making the cut from more than 105,000 entries.
              by Peter Dench (one of which                                                         The winners will be announced on 27 April at a ceremony
              is pictured here) will be                                                            at the Odeon Leicester Square, in London, marking a move
              showing on a digital screen in the festival’s QUAD and Focus sections. Peter, who    away from Cannes, which has hosted the ceremony in
              is returning to the city he left 15 years ago, said: “When the world’s heavyweight   previous years. The overall Photographer of the Year will
PETER DENCH




              street photographers gather, it’s time to take notice. I’m delighted Derby is        win $25,000 and professional Sony camera equipment.
              hosting a festival fast becoming one of the most successful in the world.”           To see a complete list of short-listed photographers visit
              For more details on the festival visit www.formatfestival.com                        www.worldphoto.org

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                                      Olympus XZ-1                                                           Pioneer spirit
                                      A handy, neat addition to                                              Converge, the festival dedicated to
                                      the kit bag, the new XZ-1                                              HDSLR film making, is being
                                      from Olympus is a                                                      held at the National Film Theatre,
                                      high-end compact offering                                              in London, on 1-2 March, and
                                      a 10MP sensor, HD movie                                                features pioneers of the HDSLR
                                      capabilities and a quality                                             world such as Philip Bloom and
                                      Zuiko lens usually found                                               documentary maker Danfung
                                      on DSLRs. Compact and                                                  Dennis. One-hour workshops will
                                      good looking, the XZ-1’s                                               cover aspects of DSLR film making such as creative lens
                                      quality and speed make                                                 work and post-production workflow with award-winning
                                      it the ideal camera for                                                editor Steve Sander. Film writer/director Richard Jobson
                                      pros who need to scout                                                 will be holding an acting workshop, where he will break
                                      new locations for their                                                down a scene and demonstrate how he would bring it to
                                      next shoot and to create                                               life on screen. PP editor Grant Scott will also be a guest
                                      mood boards.                                                           speaker, discussing the impact of convergence on
                                      RRP: £399.                                                             professional photographers.
                                      www.olympus.co.uk                                                      For more information visit www.theconvergence.co.uk




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Candid cameras                                                                          Get up to speed
London gallery                                                                          Neil Turner, a vice-chairman of the British Press
                                                     Yohji Yamamoto
the Wapping                                          Autumn-Winter                      Photographers’ Association and regular contributor




                                                                                                                                                                                 NEIL TURNER
Project Bankside                                   1998-99 collection.                  to our sister magazine Photography Monthly, will be
never fails to                                                                          running and teaching the new course in
bring something                                                                         photography and photojournalism at Up to Speed
fresh and                                                                               Journalism based in Bournemouth, Dorset. The course costs £4,000, plus £199.15
exciting to the                                                                         exam fees, with students learning how to cover news, sport and entertainment events
art scene, and its                                                                      using both stills and video cameras. They will also be taught writing skills and media
next exhibition,                                                                        law at the centre based at the Bournemouth Daily Echo newspaper. The next




                                                                         MONICA FEUDI
Yohji’s Women,                                                                          course starts at the end of September 2011 and continues until February 2012.
sees them true to                                                                       To enrol or find out more visit http://uptospeedjournalism.co.uk
form. Running
parallel to the
Yohji Yamamoto exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the                          Foto Mags              The Foto Mags Now app lets you enjoy our magazines
show features the work of seven international photographers who                                                on your iPad. You can download single issues or
have collaborated with the influential designer to convey his vision                    Now                    subscribe to Professional Photographer, Photography
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McDean and Paolo Roversi, perfectly match the spirit and vitality                                              enables you to expand features, scroll around the
of Yamamoto’s designs.                                                                                         page, listen to podcasts and view video footage. It even
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East is east                                                                                          Land of our fathers
Ian Berry is a                                                                                        Taking Land: Crimea 2010 is a new hardback,
Magnum master                                                                                         cloth-bound book published by photographic
and regular                                                                                           publishing house Foto8 and Zoï Environmental
contributor to our                                                                                    Network, a non-profit organisation. In true Foto8




                                                                        © IAN BERRY / MAGNUM PHOTOS
sister magazine                                                                                       style, the book features thought-provoking images
Photography                                                                                           by Swiss photographer Alban Kakulya to tell the
Monthly. Born in                                                                                      story of the Tatars of Crimea. Exiled by the Soviet dictator Stalin in 1944, the Tatars
Lancashire in                                                                                         are now returning to this autonomous republic in Ukraine to reclaim their homeland.
1934, he moved to                                                                                     The book shows how past and present interact as they try to create a new future.
South Africa in his                                                                                   Taking Land: Crimea 2010, by Alban Kakulya, published by Foto8, £25,
20s and documented the struggles of the anti-apartheid movement.                                      ISBN: 978-0-9559580-6-9. www.foto8.com
He joined Magnum in 1962, having been invited by Henri
Cartier-Bresson, and has captured major world events in the course
of his career. In 1972, the Whitechapel Gallery commissioned                                          In full focus
Berry to capture the rapidly changing face of East London for the                                     Focus on Imaging, Europe’s biggest annual imaging show, is this year
exhibition This is Whitechapel. Now, as this historic part of                                         being held at the NEC, Birmingham, from 6 to 9 March. The editorial team
London undergoes major changes in the run-up to the 2012                                              will be on the PP stand as well as pro photographers such as Peter Dench
Olympics, the gallery has revisited its archives to present 30 images                                 and Martin Middlebrook, so come and say hello. More than 200 exhibitors
from the 1972 commission in a free exhibition. These show a side                                      will be at the show, so it’s also a great chance to meet manufacturers and
of the East End that was already disappearing in 1972.                                                distributors, see the latest launches and attend seminars and workshops.
This is Whitechapel, the Whitechapel Gallery, 11 March to                                             Entrance for non-trade is £10 on the day or £8 by pre-payment online.
4 September. www.whitechapelgallery.org                                                               For more details and registration visit www.focus-on-imaging.co.uk




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We have done the hard work for you and chosen the best photographic
                 exhibitions on show now or coming up soon. For a full list of exhibitions and
                 events visit www.professionalphotographer.co.uk


                 Angelheaded Hipsters:
                 Images of the Beat Generation
                 National Theatre, South Bank, London, SE1 9PX
                 020 7452 3400; www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/exhibitions
                 Until 20 March
                 The Beat Generation of writers and poets rose
                 to prominence in the 1950s in reaction to what
                 they saw as the conformity and materialism of
                 post-war America. Allen Ginsberg was a leading
                 figure of the Beat movement and his 1956 epic
                 poem Howl!, in which he celebrates his fellow
                 ‘angelheaded hipsters’, helped to define the
                 generation. A collection of his photographs is        Writer Jack Kerouac in 1953 making what Ginsberg described as
                                                                       a “Dostoyevsky mad-face” or “Russian basso be-bop Om” while
                 now on show at the National Theatre and sheds         walking through the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York.
                 light on this influential sub-culture. This free
ALLEN GINSBERG




                 exhibition (courtesy of Corbis Images and the Allen Ginsberg Trust) traces the early years and subsequent
                 fame of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs, while images from other photographers show the
                 influence of the Beat Generation.



                  Tumi                                  Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
                  Mokgosi.
                                                        Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
                                                        020 7942 2000; www.vam.ac.uk
                                                        12 April to 17 July
                                                        This spring the V&A museum will host an exhibition of contemporary
                                                        South African photography, featuring more than 150 works which
                                                        represent the vibrant and thought-provoking photographic culture
                                                        that has emerged in the country since the end of apartheid. The images
                                                        show people within their community or family surroundings and
                                                        depict issues such as race, religion, gender, class and politics.
                                                        The 17 photographers featured in the exhibition include established
                                                        figures David Goldblatt and Santu Mofokeng as well as a new
ZANELE MUHOLI




                                                        generation including Zanele Muholi and Hasan and Husain Essop.
                                                        Each is represented by a series of photographs that question what
                                                        it is to be human in South Africa at this time.




                 Zed Nelson: LOVE ME
                 Impressions Gallery, Centenary Square, Bradford, BD1 1SD
                 01274 737843; www.impressions-gallery.com
                 4 March to 29 May
                 Award-winning photographer Zed Nelson’s show at the Impressions
                 Gallery this spring explores the cultural and commercial forces
                 that feed the global obsession with youth and beauty. The images
                 in LOVE ME depict cosmetic surgeons, beauty queens and
                 bodybuilders alongside everyday teenagers, businessmen and
                 housewives. Zed visited countries across five continents to capture
                 images for the cross-cultural exhibition, which questions our views
                 of what beauty really is and raises questions about our own vanities
                 and insecurities. We talked to Zed Nelson about his career as a
ZED NELSON




                 photojournalist in the June 2010 issue of the magazine; back issues
                 are available from www.professionalphotographer.co.uk
Bringingitall
      backhome
When PP Editor Grant Scott
decided to bring two strands
of his photography together
he found himself not only                             major eight-page articles and the occasional             publisher Thames & Hudson, who were
                                                      interesting portrait. As always with editorial           commercial enough to ensure my book was seen
having a book published but                           commissions, when you start working regularly            but had a pedigree to ensure it was also
also travelling the world...                          for one title it is not long before rival publications
                                                      are noticing your work and the phone begins
                                                                                                               well-designed and produced. I approached my
                                                                                                               contact there who was fortunately in a position
                                                      ringing. I was soon shooting for LivingEtc, House        to give the green light to the project if he
                          It is often the case that   & Garden and Homes & Gardens magazines,                  believed it made both artistic and commercial
                          as photographers            and getting commercial work for interiors and            sense for the company and after a number of
                          we can easily become        design clients. I was now considered by one set of       meetings we got the go-ahead. I say ‘we’ because
                          pigeonholed.                clients to be an interiors photographer who could        I had soon realised when compiling the list of
                          After approximately         shoot portraits and by another set of clients as         possible shoots that I was going to need help.
                          five years of working       a portrait photographer who liked shooting in            Fortunately, my wife is both a novelist and a
                          as a pro I found myself     environments but could work in a studio if               writer, and she agreed not only to help me
                          in not just one             necessary. This seemed confusing to me and to            organise each shoot but also to oversee all of the
                          pigeonhole but two!         my clients so I decided to do something about            text for the book, including interviews with each
Since first making the switch from being an art       it and started work on creating a project which          person included.
director to working as a photographer I had           would present me and my work clearly to both                Although Thames & Hudson agreed to publish
been taking portraits with some success, shooting     sets of clients.                                         the book they were happy for us to do everything
celebrities and what I call “People you may              The resulting concept was called Bringing it All      else required to make it happen. Initially, because
have heard of ” for editorial clients as well as      Back Home. Based on my love for design and               of my design background, they were keen for me
doing a range of different portrait work for          meeting people whom I admired I compiled a               to design the book as well as photograph it, but
commercial clients. I had been lucky enough           list of the world’s leading product, furniture,          I was determined not to confuse these disciplines
to be successful in the now-defunct but               interiors and graphic designers with the idea of         and so I worked on the design with a friend,
then-important Kobal Photographic Portrait            photographing each of them in their homes,               Jonathan Ellery, at Browns, an award-winning
Awards and I was happy to be described as a           wherever they lived, to see if the designs they
portrait photographer.                                created for us to buy and live with were the
   Just as I was feeling content with this state of   same ones they chose for their own homes.                “I have always seen
affairs I was contacted completely out of the blue    The locations would range from New York to
by the art director of Elle Decoration and asked      Sao Paulo, Frankfurt to Barcelona, San Francisco         photography as a passport
to shoot a portrait and interiors story for the
magazine in Turin. It was an exciting commission
                                                      to Milan, and Derbyshire to West Sussex. It was
                                                      not going to be a cheap project to complete;
                                                                                                               to enter worlds and meet
and because I had always had a personal and           I needed someone to help pay for it as well as           people that I would never
professional interest in design of all types they
seemed like a great new client to work with.
                                                      a format in which to present the final project.
                                                      The answer to both problems would be a
                                                                                                               have had access to if it had
   I have always seen photography as a passport to    publisher and a book.                                    not been for my camera and
enter worlds and meet people that I would never
have had access to if it had not been for my
                                                         Fortunately, as an art director I had designed
                                                      and helped to edit a number of books for                 it is these opportunities to
camera and it is these opportunities to meet
people and share knowledge that keeps me so
                                                      photographers and about photography, so I had
                                                      a pretty good understanding of what a publisher
                                                                                                               meet people and share
excited about photography. Anyway, the shoot in       was looking for when commissioning a project             knowledge that keeps me so
Italy went well and the magazine was pleased
with the images; so pleased in fact that it
                                                      and also some good contacts in the publishing
                                                      world. In my mind the perfect choice for
                                                                                                               excited about photography.”
started to commission me regularly to shoot           my project was the art, design and photography           Grant Scott
                                                                                                                           www.professionalphotographer.co.uk 23
“Having done my sums I                                same day and no stay-overs. The American
                                                      sessions were going to require me to arrange the
                                                                                                                Evidently Bring it All Back Home was not a
                                                                                                             good title for Amazon, as it did not include
worked out that I would have                          shoots on the back of work I hoped to get over
                                                      there from my US or UK clients. New York
                                                                                                             enough key words. At Home with the Makers of
                                                                                                             Style was suggested and settled upon. I was
to shoot all of the portraits                         wouldn’t be too difficult because I was often          neither happy nor convinced by the reason for the
and interior images with no                           working there but the rest would not be as easy.
                                                         We got a great response from the people we
                                                                                                             new title. I felt the cold hand of a marketing
                                                                                                             department being involved in last-minute
more than five rolls of                               contacted who we wanted to include in the book         decision-making. I may be wrong but I had seen

12-exposure 120 film and                              and my schedule rapidly started to fill up.
                                                      Design greats such as Alberto Alessi, Dieter
                                                                                                             this happen before and had to fight a similar
                                                                                                             battle as a designer. The same was true of the
one pack of Polaroid per                              Rams (the man Jonathon Ive admits having               cover. We wanted it to be type only; the publishers
                                                      been influenced by when designing Apple                wanted some images on the cover. A compromise
shoot. Cheap hotels, no                               products), Karim Rashid and David Mellor signed        was reached, which worked for neither of us.
assistant and the cheapest                            up and I started shooting. The adventures
                                                      I had over the following six months will have
                                                                                                                Despite these last-minute problems the final
                                                                                                             book was a success. On its launch it was
flights I could find.”                                to be saved for a future Being There column but,       featured across 10 pages in Elle Decoration and
                                                      as you can probably imagine, plenty were               20 pages of Dwell magazine. Similar-length
Grant Scott                                           experienced. I managed to get to both Sao Paulo        features appeared in the Observer, Times and
                                                      and San Francisco on the back of commissions
design group in London. As I shot on Hasselblads      for the San Francisco based Dwell magazine, for
at the time and never cropped my pictures, the        whom I worked. It led me to shooting in the
square format was crucial to the images I created.    favelas under armed guard on election day in
Thames & Hudson thought it was important that         Brazil and playing football against the Apple
my approach carried through into how the book         development team on a warm Sunday morning
should look and suggested a square format, which      in California.
worked perfectly with the ideas that both Jon            My four shoots in New York took place over
and I had for the typography. The design and          two extremely humid days running across
format were agreed upon, the final list of whom       Manhattan dealing with a number of fragile egos.
we wanted to photograph was confirmed and             I did the shoot in Barcelona following coffee
the budget/advance agreed. Now it was time to         in a rat-infested bar. In Frankfurt I drank a little
start the project.                                    too much wine with Dieter Rams and on
   It may surprise you to know that it is very        returning from one of the Milan shoots in the
unusual for any photography monograph                 early hours I forgot where I had left my car in
(a book compiled of photographs by only one           the Gatwick car park. In Paris I shot on a roof
photographer) to sell more than 1,000 to 2,000        in a storm and when it came to photographing
copies and many sell a lot less. When it comes to     the legendary product designer David Mellor
sales a major publisher would expect to have to       (traffic lights, bus stops, cutlery and so much        Telegraph magazines. It had both French
sell more than 25,000 copies before they could        more we take for granted) I discovered he              and American co-editions and sold reasonably
begin to recoup their investment. So any form of      was not as well as I had hoped and that he had         well. Did it achieve what I wanted it to do and
advance or shoot budget you get will be based on      to be supported by his son and carer.                  reposition my work with clients? Not really, I just
the commerciality of your project. Basically will        While shooting the book I had also been             became the photographer who shot portraits
it appeal to those interested in more than just the   editing the contact sheets, deciding the pace and      and interiors who could also travel. If you want to
photography? Suffice to say that the people at        which images which we would use. As the book           see the completed book you can now buy it on
Thames & Hudson were happy to advance me a            was to be compiled in designer surname                 Amazon (find it via its Amazon-friendly title),
fixed sum and the rest was up to me.                  alphabetical order, the layouts were completed         reduced from its original £19.95 to 1p and
   Having done my sums I worked out that I            as we continued shooting. The whole project            upwards depending on condition. You may even
would have to shoot all of the portraits and          was completed on time and on budget. When we           be lucky enough, as I recently was, to pick up
interior images with no more than five rolls of       delivered the completed work, however, the             a copy from TK Maxx. Whoever said that
12-exposure 120 film and one pack of Polaroid         only disagreement with the publishers came over        professional photography was exempt from the
per shoot. Cheap hotels, no assistant and the         two of what I consider the most important              bargain bin? PP
cheapest flights I could find. The European           elements when it comes to creating a book:
portraits would mean in-and-out shoots on the         The name and the cover.                                www.grantscott.com




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dispatches        Clive Booth           tales from the frontline of professional photography




                                          This month:                 Like many of us I am acutely aware of the
                                                                      importance of being far more visible online
                                                                      and making sense of and using social
                                          Clive ponders the           networking to gain a regular audience, retain
                                                                      it and ultimately generate more work and
                                          importance of building an   income. This whole subject raises more questions
                                                                      than answers and I’m not sure if anyone can
                                          online profile and shares   answer with a high degree of certainty. It is most

                                          his ideas and experience    likely that our web and social media presence will
                                                                      play an increasingly important role in whether we
                                          on getting it right.        win or lose commissions. The power of our
                                                                      virtual presence cannot be underestimated; it is
                                                                      the web that, as a friend put it, “represents us in
                                                                                                                            CLIVE BOOTH




                                                                      our physical absence” to share with others our
                                                                      work, thoughts and feelings, along with following
                                                                      our career and, sometimes, life journeys.

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“Corporate giant Ernst & Young’s final decision to choose me from a short list of
        photographers was in part decided from their reading of my articles for this magazine
     which, although in print, are still in effect a monthly blog. They understood my passion for
                  photography, the way I shoot, my workflow and working principles...” Clive Booth




   This was proved to me last year when corporate    We want to learn as much as possible about a           ways to an almost unlimited audience so easily
giant Ernst & Young’s final decision to choose me    product or service and be in a position to know all    and instantly. There may be billions of
from a short list of photographers was in part       the available facts so we can make an informed         conversations taking place at any given moment
decided from their reading of my articles for this   purchasing decision.                                   and yet it will always be the content that will
magazine which, although in print, are still in         With the advent of the smartphone and, more         make us stand apart from the competition.
effect a monthly blog. They understood my            recently, the iPad, our web and social media           With this in mind I have started a project of my
passion for photography, the way I shoot, my         presence is quite literally at the tip of our          own to create a far stronger web presence.
workflow and working principles, and felt that       prospective followers’ fingers and the world is        No matter how beautifully designed a gallery of
while I would be sensitive when working with         moving increasingly towards delivering media on        pictures or films may be, it’s no longer enough
different cultures around the world I would also     demand. Even the humble TV is now a mixed              and our followers are always hungry for more and
deliver. In effect, by sharing the experience of     media device with not just Freeview and Sky, but       more information. It all started as a blog and I
how I shoot, work and my feelings on previous        the iPlayer, Demand Five, LOVEFiLM, YouTube,           suppose the site will be loosely based on this
projects, both personal and professional, I had      I could go on.                                         concept as I aim to update it at least two to three
given them a glimpse of how I would work for            So it’s clear that the web is more important than   times a month. Whenever I try to explain this
them. What Ernst & Young did was no different to     ever and there has never previously been a time        project to friends and colleagues I fail to come up
many of us when making a serious purchase.           when we could communicate in so many different         with a name. Obviously it’s a website, gallery,

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  • 1. PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER MARCH 2011 G W. EUGENE SMITH G HERB RITTS G NICK HADDOW G BLOG PHOTOGRAPHY G “Never complain, INSPIRING • INFORMATIVE • HONEST • ESSENTIAL MARCH 2011 ONLY £3.99 never explain just be it.” Matthew Rolston WWW.PROFESSIONALPHOTOGRAPHER.CO.UK EXCLUSIVE: YERVANT, JASMINE STAR & CRASH TAYLOR FIGHT TO SHOOT THE ROYAL WEDDING & THE GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHER OF ALL TIME IS REVEALED! Cover image by PLUS: Nick Haddow ISBLOG PHOTOGRAPHY ANEWARTFORM? HERBRITTS PROFILED, &HOWTOKILL AHARDDRIVEWITH ASHOTGUN! PERSONAL PROJECTS SPECIAL 23 PAGES OF ADVICE, REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCE & INFORMED OPINIONS
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  • 3. welcome march I’ve spent a lot of time recently talking to photographers and readers, and I must say that it has been particularly pleasing to hear how many of you are responding positively to what we are trying to do. We have tried over the past year or so to create a magazine which not only inspires and informs but also tells it as it is. No false promises, no false hopes, just the facts as they are from the people who know. From what I have been hearing this is what you want, so we’re pleased to be able to bring you another issue of what you say you want and need. One of the people who certainly doesn’t shy away from reality is our sometime working pro Peter Dench. His diary seems to be building quite a following and, as ever, this month he lays his photographic soul bare in the Dench Diary on Page 40. Another regular contributor, Martin Middlebrook, this month shares his experiences of the camaraderie of photojournalists in Afghan Café on Page 37. I share my experiences of shooting my first book in Being There (and thanks for all the kind comments I have received concerning this monthly column) in Bringing it All Back Home on Page 23. And Clive Booth discovers the importance of blogs in this month’s Dispatches on Page 32. To round up this issue’s outpouring of personal experience we take a look at the growth of extremely personal photography which we are seeing in both book form in Me, Myself and I on Page 78 and in the blogging world in The New Kid in Town on Page 94, as well as its importance in a photographer’s life in The Personal Project on Page 72. The one name which most photographers agree on as being among the true greats is W. Eugene Smith, which led us and Peter Silverton to ask the question, “Was and is he the greatest photographer of all time?” You can read Peter’s answer in the article asking exactly that on Page 66. While we are talking about legendary photographers who are sadly no longer with us it seemed like a good time to reassess the work of Herb Ritts. He defined the visual aesthetic of the 1980s and 1990s before his early death, but was being forgotten until recently. You can find out more in Everyone’s Talking About Herb Ritts on Page 58. Add to all of this an exclusive interview with fashion and portrait photographer Nick Haddow on Page 88, the holy trinity of wedding photographers Yervant, Jasmine Star and Crash Taylor in a royal wedding EDITOR’S IMAGE: MATT HALSTEAD head-to-head on Page 83 and shooting THIS IMAGE: HERB RITTS hard drives with shotguns on Page 97, and I believe you’ll agree that we are delivering on all fronts and hopefully getting it right most of the time. Grant Scott, Editor
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  • 5. NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 8 Portfolio The best of your work posted on to our online portfolio. 57 Exposure Robert Mapplethorpe returns to London thanks to contents march the rock band Scissor Sisters. NEED TO KNOW 23 Being There PP Editor Grant Scott recalls the experience of turning a personal project into an internationally published book. 32 Dispatches Clive Booth talks about developing his brand, website and photographic touch points. 37 Afghan Café Photojournalist Martin Middlebrook relives the camaraderie he found in Kabul with fellow photographers. 40 The Dench Diary This month photojournalist Peter Dench judges a camera club and survives January, just! 44 The World of Convergence Film maker John Campbell’s regular news-packed look at the world of convergence. 47 Frontline We talk to legendary art director and former Pentagram partner David Hillman. 55 Guess the Lighting Ever seen a great image and wanted to know how it was lit? Ted Sabarese explains all. 58 Everyone’s Talking About Herb Ritts The legend of 1980s celebrity portraiture is remembered by those he helped make famous. Actress Carey Mulligan, taken by Nick Haddow. Discover his approach to photography in our interview on page 88. 66 The Greatest Photographer of all Time... The answer is simple. The answer is W. Eugene Smith. INTERVIEWS WITH... 98 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2 . Is it a stills camera? Is it a video camera? 78 Me, Myself and I 72 The Personal Project Award-winning photojournalist Kieran Doherty gets PP Editor Grant Scott has had enough of Dmitri Kasterine’s photographic life has been one. his hands on this gem of a camera to find out. introspective photography and so has photography Now in his 70s, he is having his work rediscovered. publisher Dewi Lewis. They both explain why and 103 Stop Press... what they believe to be the reasons for the fashion. 88 Let There Be Light The latest essential news, gossip and kit from the An exclusive interview with Scottish fashion and pro world. 83 The Royal Wedding portrait photographer Nick Haddow. Slamdown Three of the biggest names in wedding photography tell us how they’d shoot the wedding of the decade. NEWS & REVIEWS KEEP IN TOUCH 26 Subscribe 94 The New Kid in Town 14 Click Check out our latest subscription offers across all Blog photography is fast becoming the new platform This month’s line-up of the best news, dreams, our photography titles. for photographic curation. PP Editor Grant Scott themes and photographic schemes, plus our pick of wants to find out more about the world of reblogging. this month’s photographic exhibitions in the UK. 28 Podcast Free photographic discussion for the masses. NICK HADDOW 114 Legend 97 The Hard Drive Must Die We look at the great lost talent that was British Take a hard drive and a shotgun and see which 53 Feedback photojournalist Tony Ray-Jones. wins. It’s a simple formula with a surprising result. Your thoughts, your opinions, your page. www.professionalphotographer.co.uk 5
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  • 7. friends march David Hillman Peter Dench Yervant Ted Sabarese Art director Photographer Photographer Photographer David is an iconic figure in the world Peter is fast becoming a Twitter Born in Ethiopia, Yervant won his Ted shoots all kinds of people, but of graphic and editorial design. sensation due to his regular, witty first photography award at the age especially relishes working with Having art directed Nova, designed tweets. Yet he still finds time to write of 11, and in turn the admiration of non-professional models and actors the Sunday Times Magazine, created The Dench Diary for PP each month, the Emperor Haile Selassie. In 1975 who don’t fit society’s traditional the graphic identity for the Guardian feature in our monthly podcasts he moved to Melbourne where, definition of beauty. His personal and been a partner at the legendary and continue his career as an after leaving college, he went on and fine art work has won critical design firm, Pentagram, his award-winning photojournalist. to become a master wedding acclaim for its conceptual and impressive CV has seen him work Such has been the success of his photographer and scooped the 2010 graphic nature and been exhibited in with many of the last century’s contributions to the magazine that he WPPI Lifetime Achievement Award. US and other international galleries. greatest photographers, from Man is now considering merchandising This month in PP, on page 83, he As well as shooting for commercial Ray to Helmut Newton. David brings opportunities. 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  • 14. click Georges Braque, 1960. the latest photographic news, dreams, themes and schemes. edited by Eleanor O’Kane © FRANK BAYH AND STEFF ROSENBERGER-OCHS – COURTESY SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2011 20th-century boys – and girls A new encyclopedia of the finest monographs by 20th-century photographers showcases such important photographers as Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus and Cecil Beaton. Many, like Terry Richardson and Wolfgang Tillmans (whose work is pictured below), are DAVID GIBSON still producing new work; however, what they all have in common is a huge contribution to the art form. Photographers A-Z features facsimiles from books and magazines and is Word on the street authored by German photography writer Hans-Michael Koetzle. The inaugural London Street Photography Photographers A-Z, by Hans-Michael Festival will take place this summer – from Koetzle, published by Taschen, £44.99, 7 to 17 July – but deadlines for the accompanying ISBN: 978-3-8365-1109-4. www.taschen.com awards are looming. The competition, to determine the best emerging and worldwide street photographers, is divided into two categories – a UK student award and an international award. The deadline for both sections is 31 March. The festival itself will feature a diverse programme of exhibitions and interactive events at London venues, including the National Portrait Gallery, the V&A Museum, the British Library and St Pancras International train station. Highlights include the first UK exhibition of recently-discovered work by secret street photographer Vivian Maier, from Chicago, whose pictures were only discovered after her death, as well as work by photographer David Gibson. For more details and a full festival programme visit www.londonstreetphotographyfestival.org 14 www.professionalphotographer.co.uk
  • 15. German photographers Frank Bayh and Steff Rosenberger-Ochs are finalists in the lifestyle section of the commercial category with this image, entitled Don’t Touch My Universe. Dench at Derby Sony World Photo 2011 In the last edition of Click we short list announced previewed FORMAT, the The Sony World Photography Awards 2011 short list has Derby-based photography been announced with 15 categories in the professional festival, from 4 March to competition under three genres: Photojournalism & 3 April. Fans of our regular documentary, commercial and fine art. Short-listed feature The Dench Diary will photographers come from as far away as Afghanistan, be pleased to know images Argentina and China, with several UK photographers from England Uncensored making the cut from more than 105,000 entries. by Peter Dench (one of which The winners will be announced on 27 April at a ceremony is pictured here) will be at the Odeon Leicester Square, in London, marking a move showing on a digital screen in the festival’s QUAD and Focus sections. Peter, who away from Cannes, which has hosted the ceremony in is returning to the city he left 15 years ago, said: “When the world’s heavyweight previous years. The overall Photographer of the Year will PETER DENCH street photographers gather, it’s time to take notice. I’m delighted Derby is win $25,000 and professional Sony camera equipment. hosting a festival fast becoming one of the most successful in the world.” To see a complete list of short-listed photographers visit For more details on the festival visit www.formatfestival.com www.worldphoto.org www.professionalphotographer.co.uk 15
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  • 17. Bohemian rhapsody Buy the Always at the heart of the post-war cultural scene, latest Ida Kar was a trailblazer who fought to have photography accepted as a fine art. She is a largely issue forgotten name in photography, but a new exhibition direct at the National Portrait Gallery brings to the fore There’s no longer images from the archive of the Russian-born any need to leave photographer who moved to London in 1945. As well the comfort of your own home to as iconic works, some of the images will be on public get your copy of the latest issue of © NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON view for the first time. Ida Kar: Bohemian Professional Photographer Photographer, 1908-74 is a three-month show of magazine. You get the latest issue her work and features portraits of artists and writers delivered direct to your door simply including Georges Braque (left), Henry Moore, by ordering straight from the Bridget Riley and Jean-Paul Sartre. website. If you live in the UK, it’s Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-74, free delivery. Go to the National Portrait Gallery, 10 March to 19 June, www.professionalphotographer. admission £3. www.npg.org.uk co.uk/current Olympus XZ-1 Pioneer spirit A handy, neat addition to Converge, the festival dedicated to the kit bag, the new XZ-1 HDSLR film making, is being from Olympus is a held at the National Film Theatre, high-end compact offering in London, on 1-2 March, and a 10MP sensor, HD movie features pioneers of the HDSLR capabilities and a quality world such as Philip Bloom and Zuiko lens usually found documentary maker Danfung on DSLRs. Compact and Dennis. One-hour workshops will good looking, the XZ-1’s cover aspects of DSLR film making such as creative lens quality and speed make work and post-production workflow with award-winning it the ideal camera for editor Steve Sander. Film writer/director Richard Jobson pros who need to scout will be holding an acting workshop, where he will break new locations for their down a scene and demonstrate how he would bring it to next shoot and to create life on screen. PP editor Grant Scott will also be a guest mood boards. speaker, discussing the impact of convergence on RRP: £399. professional photographers. www.olympus.co.uk For more information visit www.theconvergence.co.uk www.professionalphotographer.co.uk 17
  • 18. Candid cameras Get up to speed London gallery Neil Turner, a vice-chairman of the British Press Yohji Yamamoto the Wapping Autumn-Winter Photographers’ Association and regular contributor NEIL TURNER Project Bankside 1998-99 collection. to our sister magazine Photography Monthly, will be never fails to running and teaching the new course in bring something photography and photojournalism at Up to Speed fresh and Journalism based in Bournemouth, Dorset. The course costs £4,000, plus £199.15 exciting to the exam fees, with students learning how to cover news, sport and entertainment events art scene, and its using both stills and video cameras. They will also be taught writing skills and media next exhibition, law at the centre based at the Bournemouth Daily Echo newspaper. The next MONICA FEUDI Yohji’s Women, course starts at the end of September 2011 and continues until February 2012. sees them true to To enrol or find out more visit http://uptospeedjournalism.co.uk form. Running parallel to the Yohji Yamamoto exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Foto Mags The Foto Mags Now app lets you enjoy our magazines show features the work of seven international photographers who on your iPad. You can download single issues or have collaborated with the influential designer to convey his vision Now subscribe to Professional Photographer, Photography of strong women. The pictures, by leading photographers such as Monthly, Turning Pro, Which Digital Camera and World Nick Knight, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Craig of Photography. Available in the iTunes store, the app McDean and Paolo Roversi, perfectly match the spirit and vitality enables you to expand features, scroll around the of Yamamoto’s designs. page, listen to podcasts and view video footage. It even Yohji’s Women, the Wapping Project Bankside, 12 March to 14 May. works on your iPhone. For more information go to www.thewappingprojectbankside.com iTunes or the App store. www.apple.com/uk/itunes 18 www.professionalphotographer.co.uk
  • 19. click East is east Land of our fathers Ian Berry is a Taking Land: Crimea 2010 is a new hardback, Magnum master cloth-bound book published by photographic and regular publishing house Foto8 and Zoï Environmental contributor to our Network, a non-profit organisation. In true Foto8 © IAN BERRY / MAGNUM PHOTOS sister magazine style, the book features thought-provoking images Photography by Swiss photographer Alban Kakulya to tell the Monthly. Born in story of the Tatars of Crimea. Exiled by the Soviet dictator Stalin in 1944, the Tatars Lancashire in are now returning to this autonomous republic in Ukraine to reclaim their homeland. 1934, he moved to The book shows how past and present interact as they try to create a new future. South Africa in his Taking Land: Crimea 2010, by Alban Kakulya, published by Foto8, £25, 20s and documented the struggles of the anti-apartheid movement. ISBN: 978-0-9559580-6-9. www.foto8.com He joined Magnum in 1962, having been invited by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and has captured major world events in the course of his career. In 1972, the Whitechapel Gallery commissioned In full focus Berry to capture the rapidly changing face of East London for the Focus on Imaging, Europe’s biggest annual imaging show, is this year exhibition This is Whitechapel. Now, as this historic part of being held at the NEC, Birmingham, from 6 to 9 March. The editorial team London undergoes major changes in the run-up to the 2012 will be on the PP stand as well as pro photographers such as Peter Dench Olympics, the gallery has revisited its archives to present 30 images and Martin Middlebrook, so come and say hello. More than 200 exhibitors from the 1972 commission in a free exhibition. These show a side will be at the show, so it’s also a great chance to meet manufacturers and of the East End that was already disappearing in 1972. distributors, see the latest launches and attend seminars and workshops. This is Whitechapel, the Whitechapel Gallery, 11 March to Entrance for non-trade is £10 on the day or £8 by pre-payment online. 4 September. www.whitechapelgallery.org For more details and registration visit www.focus-on-imaging.co.uk www.professionalphotographer.co.uk 19
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  • 21. We have done the hard work for you and chosen the best photographic exhibitions on show now or coming up soon. For a full list of exhibitions and events visit www.professionalphotographer.co.uk Angelheaded Hipsters: Images of the Beat Generation National Theatre, South Bank, London, SE1 9PX 020 7452 3400; www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/exhibitions Until 20 March The Beat Generation of writers and poets rose to prominence in the 1950s in reaction to what they saw as the conformity and materialism of post-war America. Allen Ginsberg was a leading figure of the Beat movement and his 1956 epic poem Howl!, in which he celebrates his fellow ‘angelheaded hipsters’, helped to define the generation. A collection of his photographs is Writer Jack Kerouac in 1953 making what Ginsberg described as a “Dostoyevsky mad-face” or “Russian basso be-bop Om” while now on show at the National Theatre and sheds walking through the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. light on this influential sub-culture. This free ALLEN GINSBERG exhibition (courtesy of Corbis Images and the Allen Ginsberg Trust) traces the early years and subsequent fame of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs, while images from other photographers show the influence of the Beat Generation. Tumi Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography Mokgosi. Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL 020 7942 2000; www.vam.ac.uk 12 April to 17 July This spring the V&A museum will host an exhibition of contemporary South African photography, featuring more than 150 works which represent the vibrant and thought-provoking photographic culture that has emerged in the country since the end of apartheid. The images show people within their community or family surroundings and depict issues such as race, religion, gender, class and politics. The 17 photographers featured in the exhibition include established figures David Goldblatt and Santu Mofokeng as well as a new ZANELE MUHOLI generation including Zanele Muholi and Hasan and Husain Essop. Each is represented by a series of photographs that question what it is to be human in South Africa at this time. Zed Nelson: LOVE ME Impressions Gallery, Centenary Square, Bradford, BD1 1SD 01274 737843; www.impressions-gallery.com 4 March to 29 May Award-winning photographer Zed Nelson’s show at the Impressions Gallery this spring explores the cultural and commercial forces that feed the global obsession with youth and beauty. The images in LOVE ME depict cosmetic surgeons, beauty queens and bodybuilders alongside everyday teenagers, businessmen and housewives. Zed visited countries across five continents to capture images for the cross-cultural exhibition, which questions our views of what beauty really is and raises questions about our own vanities and insecurities. We talked to Zed Nelson about his career as a ZED NELSON photojournalist in the June 2010 issue of the magazine; back issues are available from www.professionalphotographer.co.uk
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  • 23. Bringingitall backhome When PP Editor Grant Scott decided to bring two strands of his photography together he found himself not only major eight-page articles and the occasional publisher Thames & Hudson, who were interesting portrait. As always with editorial commercial enough to ensure my book was seen having a book published but commissions, when you start working regularly but had a pedigree to ensure it was also also travelling the world... for one title it is not long before rival publications are noticing your work and the phone begins well-designed and produced. I approached my contact there who was fortunately in a position ringing. I was soon shooting for LivingEtc, House to give the green light to the project if he It is often the case that & Garden and Homes & Gardens magazines, believed it made both artistic and commercial as photographers and getting commercial work for interiors and sense for the company and after a number of we can easily become design clients. I was now considered by one set of meetings we got the go-ahead. I say ‘we’ because pigeonholed. clients to be an interiors photographer who could I had soon realised when compiling the list of After approximately shoot portraits and by another set of clients as possible shoots that I was going to need help. five years of working a portrait photographer who liked shooting in Fortunately, my wife is both a novelist and a as a pro I found myself environments but could work in a studio if writer, and she agreed not only to help me in not just one necessary. This seemed confusing to me and to organise each shoot but also to oversee all of the pigeonhole but two! my clients so I decided to do something about text for the book, including interviews with each Since first making the switch from being an art it and started work on creating a project which person included. director to working as a photographer I had would present me and my work clearly to both Although Thames & Hudson agreed to publish been taking portraits with some success, shooting sets of clients. the book they were happy for us to do everything celebrities and what I call “People you may The resulting concept was called Bringing it All else required to make it happen. Initially, because have heard of ” for editorial clients as well as Back Home. Based on my love for design and of my design background, they were keen for me doing a range of different portrait work for meeting people whom I admired I compiled a to design the book as well as photograph it, but commercial clients. I had been lucky enough list of the world’s leading product, furniture, I was determined not to confuse these disciplines to be successful in the now-defunct but interiors and graphic designers with the idea of and so I worked on the design with a friend, then-important Kobal Photographic Portrait photographing each of them in their homes, Jonathan Ellery, at Browns, an award-winning Awards and I was happy to be described as a wherever they lived, to see if the designs they portrait photographer. created for us to buy and live with were the Just as I was feeling content with this state of same ones they chose for their own homes. “I have always seen affairs I was contacted completely out of the blue The locations would range from New York to by the art director of Elle Decoration and asked Sao Paulo, Frankfurt to Barcelona, San Francisco photography as a passport to shoot a portrait and interiors story for the magazine in Turin. It was an exciting commission to Milan, and Derbyshire to West Sussex. It was not going to be a cheap project to complete; to enter worlds and meet and because I had always had a personal and I needed someone to help pay for it as well as people that I would never professional interest in design of all types they seemed like a great new client to work with. a format in which to present the final project. The answer to both problems would be a have had access to if it had I have always seen photography as a passport to publisher and a book. not been for my camera and enter worlds and meet people that I would never have had access to if it had not been for my Fortunately, as an art director I had designed and helped to edit a number of books for it is these opportunities to camera and it is these opportunities to meet people and share knowledge that keeps me so photographers and about photography, so I had a pretty good understanding of what a publisher meet people and share excited about photography. Anyway, the shoot in was looking for when commissioning a project knowledge that keeps me so Italy went well and the magazine was pleased with the images; so pleased in fact that it and also some good contacts in the publishing world. In my mind the perfect choice for excited about photography.” started to commission me regularly to shoot my project was the art, design and photography Grant Scott www.professionalphotographer.co.uk 23
  • 24. “Having done my sums I same day and no stay-overs. The American sessions were going to require me to arrange the Evidently Bring it All Back Home was not a good title for Amazon, as it did not include worked out that I would have shoots on the back of work I hoped to get over there from my US or UK clients. New York enough key words. At Home with the Makers of Style was suggested and settled upon. I was to shoot all of the portraits wouldn’t be too difficult because I was often neither happy nor convinced by the reason for the and interior images with no working there but the rest would not be as easy. We got a great response from the people we new title. I felt the cold hand of a marketing department being involved in last-minute more than five rolls of contacted who we wanted to include in the book decision-making. I may be wrong but I had seen 12-exposure 120 film and and my schedule rapidly started to fill up. Design greats such as Alberto Alessi, Dieter this happen before and had to fight a similar battle as a designer. The same was true of the one pack of Polaroid per Rams (the man Jonathon Ive admits having cover. We wanted it to be type only; the publishers been influenced by when designing Apple wanted some images on the cover. A compromise shoot. Cheap hotels, no products), Karim Rashid and David Mellor signed was reached, which worked for neither of us. assistant and the cheapest up and I started shooting. The adventures I had over the following six months will have Despite these last-minute problems the final book was a success. On its launch it was flights I could find.” to be saved for a future Being There column but, featured across 10 pages in Elle Decoration and as you can probably imagine, plenty were 20 pages of Dwell magazine. Similar-length Grant Scott experienced. I managed to get to both Sao Paulo features appeared in the Observer, Times and and San Francisco on the back of commissions design group in London. As I shot on Hasselblads for the San Francisco based Dwell magazine, for at the time and never cropped my pictures, the whom I worked. It led me to shooting in the square format was crucial to the images I created. favelas under armed guard on election day in Thames & Hudson thought it was important that Brazil and playing football against the Apple my approach carried through into how the book development team on a warm Sunday morning should look and suggested a square format, which in California. worked perfectly with the ideas that both Jon My four shoots in New York took place over and I had for the typography. The design and two extremely humid days running across format were agreed upon, the final list of whom Manhattan dealing with a number of fragile egos. we wanted to photograph was confirmed and I did the shoot in Barcelona following coffee the budget/advance agreed. Now it was time to in a rat-infested bar. In Frankfurt I drank a little start the project. too much wine with Dieter Rams and on It may surprise you to know that it is very returning from one of the Milan shoots in the unusual for any photography monograph early hours I forgot where I had left my car in (a book compiled of photographs by only one the Gatwick car park. In Paris I shot on a roof photographer) to sell more than 1,000 to 2,000 in a storm and when it came to photographing copies and many sell a lot less. When it comes to the legendary product designer David Mellor sales a major publisher would expect to have to (traffic lights, bus stops, cutlery and so much Telegraph magazines. It had both French sell more than 25,000 copies before they could more we take for granted) I discovered he and American co-editions and sold reasonably begin to recoup their investment. So any form of was not as well as I had hoped and that he had well. Did it achieve what I wanted it to do and advance or shoot budget you get will be based on to be supported by his son and carer. reposition my work with clients? Not really, I just the commerciality of your project. Basically will While shooting the book I had also been became the photographer who shot portraits it appeal to those interested in more than just the editing the contact sheets, deciding the pace and and interiors who could also travel. If you want to photography? Suffice to say that the people at which images which we would use. As the book see the completed book you can now buy it on Thames & Hudson were happy to advance me a was to be compiled in designer surname Amazon (find it via its Amazon-friendly title), fixed sum and the rest was up to me. alphabetical order, the layouts were completed reduced from its original £19.95 to 1p and Having done my sums I worked out that I as we continued shooting. The whole project upwards depending on condition. You may even would have to shoot all of the portraits and was completed on time and on budget. When we be lucky enough, as I recently was, to pick up interior images with no more than five rolls of delivered the completed work, however, the a copy from TK Maxx. Whoever said that 12-exposure 120 film and one pack of Polaroid only disagreement with the publishers came over professional photography was exempt from the per shoot. Cheap hotels, no assistant and the two of what I consider the most important bargain bin? PP cheapest flights I could find. The European elements when it comes to creating a book: portraits would mean in-and-out shoots on the The name and the cover. www.grantscott.com GO ONLINE FOR MORE EXCLUSIVE TALES FROM THE WORLD OF PHOTOGRAPHY, VISIT WWW.PROFESSIONALPHOTOGRAPHER.CO.UK 24 www.professionalphotographer.co.uk
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  • 32. dispatches Clive Booth tales from the frontline of professional photography This month: Like many of us I am acutely aware of the importance of being far more visible online and making sense of and using social Clive ponders the networking to gain a regular audience, retain it and ultimately generate more work and importance of building an income. This whole subject raises more questions than answers and I’m not sure if anyone can online profile and shares answer with a high degree of certainty. It is most his ideas and experience likely that our web and social media presence will play an increasingly important role in whether we on getting it right. win or lose commissions. The power of our virtual presence cannot be underestimated; it is the web that, as a friend put it, “represents us in CLIVE BOOTH our physical absence” to share with others our work, thoughts and feelings, along with following our career and, sometimes, life journeys. 32 www.professionalphotographer.co.uk
  • 33. “Corporate giant Ernst & Young’s final decision to choose me from a short list of photographers was in part decided from their reading of my articles for this magazine which, although in print, are still in effect a monthly blog. They understood my passion for photography, the way I shoot, my workflow and working principles...” Clive Booth This was proved to me last year when corporate We want to learn as much as possible about a ways to an almost unlimited audience so easily giant Ernst & Young’s final decision to choose me product or service and be in a position to know all and instantly. There may be billions of from a short list of photographers was in part the available facts so we can make an informed conversations taking place at any given moment decided from their reading of my articles for this purchasing decision. and yet it will always be the content that will magazine which, although in print, are still in With the advent of the smartphone and, more make us stand apart from the competition. effect a monthly blog. They understood my recently, the iPad, our web and social media With this in mind I have started a project of my passion for photography, the way I shoot, my presence is quite literally at the tip of our own to create a far stronger web presence. workflow and working principles, and felt that prospective followers’ fingers and the world is No matter how beautifully designed a gallery of while I would be sensitive when working with moving increasingly towards delivering media on pictures or films may be, it’s no longer enough different cultures around the world I would also demand. Even the humble TV is now a mixed and our followers are always hungry for more and deliver. In effect, by sharing the experience of media device with not just Freeview and Sky, but more information. It all started as a blog and I how I shoot, work and my feelings on previous the iPlayer, Demand Five, LOVEFiLM, YouTube, suppose the site will be loosely based on this projects, both personal and professional, I had I could go on. concept as I aim to update it at least two to three given them a glimpse of how I would work for So it’s clear that the web is more important than times a month. Whenever I try to explain this them. What Ernst & Young did was no different to ever and there has never previously been a time project to friends and colleagues I fail to come up many of us when making a serious purchase. when we could communicate in so many different with a name. Obviously it’s a website, gallery, www.professionalphotographer.co.uk 33