I shot these polaroids in The Standard Hotel on Sunset Boulevard LA in 2003. I was channel surfing and in a very short time managed to capture a variety of interesting and famous faces.
As I mentioned in the introduction to this post a short while ago, “What do you do?” my commission to shoot Royal Navy recruitment advertisements for Y&R Rainey Kelly was far and away the most complicated shoot I have ever done. There were 6 print ads that we shot all over the UK starting on the Isle of Skye in Scotland and including the beaches of Cornwall, the bridge of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in Portsmouth and finishing on the canals of Camden in London. In this post I am going to show how we took the ‘Navy Sub’ from a line drawing to a finished ad.
On paper the ideas were overwhelming. 6 print ads that would appear in mens magazines over several months. Each advertisement included multiple scenarios representing real life situations that you might ...
We made a film of my outdoors portrait exhibition that was shot during the show while the photographs were mounted on the streets around Loughborough Junction. As we planned how ...
I’ve been going through a lot of old work recently as 2009 was a bit of a milestone, 20 years of taking photographs.
Whilst filing away old boxes of negatives and contact sheets (film and yee olde proofs before computers took over) I came accross the monster that was my shoot for the ...
Conor is a photographer and film maker based in London. His images can be viewed on his website on the PHOTOGRAPHY and FILM links above. This blog is a good place to see all sorts of personal work and general projects in progress.
