Greve Generale

While the law to reform the retirement age has been passed by the French government the French people are still in uproar, this could be seen during this Thursdays demonstration held in central Paris where thousands of people took to the streets to make their voices heard. The march started at the Place de Republique and continued along the Boulevard Haussman ending at the Place Saint Augustin. Recently the protests had turned violent with the French police forcibly breaking picket lines and, controversially, attacking occupying high school students with C.S gas and batton rounds. The police presence was noticeable but thankfully there was no real trouble. One new thing I did learn is that you can use distress flares to burn messages into cobblestones...













More of my images from the days demonstration in Paris can be seen for syndication on Alamy.com via this link

Grande Mosquée de Paris

In the fifth arrondissement just behind the Jardin des Plantes you can find the Grande Mosquée de Paris. It was built in 1922 to honour the North African countries that helped France during the first World War. It is still very much an active place of worship but it's central courtyard and gardens are open to the public

Notre Dame

I'm back in Paris this week for a short break, whilst out the other day around the Notre Dame cathedral I came across this piece of tourist entertainment - chap grabs a cute child from the crowd and places a piece of food in their hands upon which the local sparrows take their cue and fly up to get at it en mass, the family crowd round to take pictures, man gets a few coins as payment for the photo opportunity and the birds for their part get a free meal - everybody happy

Recent Publication: Time Out magazine

Recent Shoot: Benji B

A recent portrait shoot with the Radio 1Xtra DJ Benji B for Time Out magazine. The picture desk had asked for an urban setting and the choice was down to me, as the weather forecast for that day was rain I decided that the Southbank would be an ideal setting.
The vast decaying Southbank centre provided plenty of urban settings that were also under cover from the elements. The man himself had set aside an hour for the shoot so we had plenty of time to try various different locations which were all visually quite different from one another

New Portfolio

I've recently put together my new portfolio with the inclusion of many new pieces of work. The portfolio mainly showcases my reportage work concentrating on a selected number of stories, then there are some singles and travel photography finishing up with a few published covers and spreads.
The page above shows an image of a stage performer shot in Paris at the famous 'Lido' cabaret while on commission for a travel guide last summer. More images from this can be seen below