Shoots, locations and visual stories from the UK
Beach huts are fine, but the UK coast has stranger, quieter and more useful backdrops for editorial portraits. Here are ten locations worth the tide table, the walk and the early alarm.
A little rain rarely ruins a portrait shoot—it often improves it. Here is why I now treat wet weather as a creative collaborator, plus the gear, pacing and people skills that make a UK downpour work.
A practical field guide to the UK's early winter sunsets, flat grey skies and low-angle light — and why the season's short daylight can give editorial and wedding portraits more character, not less.
Stately gardens are lovely, but the UK's ordinary streets — bus stops, corner shops, terraced rows — often give wedding and editorial portraits more honesty, texture and a sense of place. Here's why I'm choosing the high street more often.