It was early spring and arriving at la Bastide de Moustiers, just as dawn broke, was as memorable as for any early morning location shoot I have experienced. The grounds and the meadows beyond were thick with frost. A dense mist hung like a shroud; so that the mountains which surrounded us went unseen accept [...]

It is said that photography is memories made of shadows. Shadows are formed by light, and depending on the time of day, if we are talking about sunlight, they are shorter or longer. My favourite time of day for strong shadows is the morning. Nothing beats getting up early in the morning, long before the [...]

A very good friend of mine, Mara Amats, was a great traveller especially to Africa. An accomplished painter, her travels inspired her art, and in the sixties she was invited to advise and restore a number of frescoes for the Coptic churches of the Lake Tana region and Tigre province in Ethiopia. However, early into [...]

It was the winter of 1990 and I was living and working in Moscow on my book, Moscow Revealed. Historically, it was a great time to be there as it was a time of great change within the Soviet Union. Gorbachev was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and head of [...]

Of all the places that I’ve travelled to none have drawn me with such magnetic power than deserts. Being alone, as I often am when I travel, in a vast emptiness is an awe-inspiring feeling. To stand in searing heat with only the sounds of silence and slowly turn 360º and seeing nothing but undulating [...]

There are places and events that I feel everyone should visit and experience at least once in their lifetime and the carnival in Rio is definitely one of them. It is on a scale like no other and as a photographer it provides unrivalled opportunities for portraits, colour and movement. The music is infectious and [...]

I took this shot in a greasy spoon cafe in the Old Kent Road, London, in the early 1980’s. Although I had no direct connection with the cafe I used to pop in for a sandwich whenever I was in the area. This was always early in the mornings, often when the cafe had just [...]