TV Winners – Bafta
After photographing the Bafta TV Awards official portraits I was given the chance to meet more amazing award winners. I was eager to make these shoots really personal, so asked each person to take me to a location that meant a lot to them. That led to an emotional return to Malachi Kirby’s childhood estate, sharing a fishing trip with Charlie Cooper, diving into a much loved street market with Marian Mohamed’s, and enjoying champagne and haribo by the canal with Georgi Banks-Davies. You can watch a couple of behind the scenes films here, or click through to see each of these shoots in full: Charlie Cooper – Best Actor in a comedy Malachi Kirby – Best Supporting Actor Marian Mohamed – Emerging Talent Factual Georgi Banks Davies – Emerging Talent Fiction Massive thanks to Claire Rees and Jordan Anderson at Bafta for commissioning me for these incredible shoots. ...
Charlie Cooper – Bafta
From a giraffe, to a tree, to a washed out rock and roll star Charlie Cooper dived into every idea I threw at him on our photoshoot to celebrate his recent Bafta for best actor in a comedy. “Charlie tried to get me to become characters during the shoot. We created this backstory of a washed up, Bill Nighy type, rock and roll star.” Who knew what a simple red carnation could inspire? I wasn’t surprised to see amazing ideas spurting out of Mr Cooper whilst we messed about together, this man has created a much loved comedy with his sister by embracing the strange and wonderful things that happen nearby. Living in the middle of the Cotswolds he still loves to be near nature and finds it helps his work. “To be able to look out the window and see miles and miles of greenery, it’s important to me. And...