Celebrity profiles from Up North
Martin kemp The location was Manchester city centre and the event, Grimm Up North 2011. A few days ago I was asked by Festival Director, Simeon Halligan to photograph celebrity guests attending the event. I was generally given a 10 -15 minute time-slot to get the shots, which meant there was no time for error. Since [...]
Checkum campaign – back with rugged vengeance
Wayne Godwin and Ashley Gibson of Salford Reds are the latest rugby star duo brave enough to reveal all for Checkum. Wayne and Ashley were photographed for the campaign a few weeks ago at NPD studios in Leeds, a fantastic well-equipped and spacious facility for still and TV/movie shoots. The duration of the shoot was [...]
Ian’s nude image wins BIPP silver award
Portrait of a Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) Artist. The British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP) regional award ceremony was recently held in Liverpool during the first weekend of April 2011. Although I couldn’t attend this year I was delighted to learn that I had won a silver award for one of two images that were [...]
Ian to be published in Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2012
A&C Black, publishers of the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook have recently recommissioned an update to my ongoing article on the subject of working as a professional photographer. First published in 1998, the article has been updated over the years to accommodate the many changes that have taken place in this ever-evolving industry. Since the advent of [...]
Life In The Pit – The Classic Rock Show
Sunday of last weekend took me to The Empire Theatre in Liverpool where I took on the challenge of photographing a live tribute band that gave their rendition of some of the world’s most classic rock songs. The Classic Rock Show was an outstanding performance of legendary musical hits made famous by bands like Led [...]
The Nikon D3x put through its paces with TAPFS
Click any image for larger view A few months ago the PR department at Nikon UK lent me their top camera, the Nikon D3x. Nikon offered the camera for around two months in support of Checkum, an on-going celebrity charity campaign that I’ve been involved in for the past two years. I have already reported [...]
Birmingham Royal Ballet – dancing for Checkum!
One of our most demanding Checkum shoots to date took place on location at the Birmingham Hippodrome. In one day we photographed four male and one female artist from the world-famous Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB). Throughout the day, each artist took turns in performing to camera, something they are undoubtedly very used to. However, on [...]
Ex-Coronation Street’s Adam Rickitt – Checkum
The latest star to join in with the Checkum testicular cancer awareness campaign is ex-Coronation Street actor and music star, Adam Rickitt. Joined by my regular Art Director, Andrea and Make-up Artist, Sadaf Saeed we photographed Adam in Manchester at Slaughterhouse studios around a week ago. This time, some additional video footage was captured during [...]
Recent Checkum shoot and Press Release
Recently voted the best-looking housemate ever “BIG BROTHERS” Dale Howard is the latest celebrity to join forces with over 40 other top celebrities for the Famousmales Testicular Cancer Awareness Campaign in Association with Macmillan Cancer Support. Dale looking even better after leaving the BB house is now a Personal Trainer and is working in Manchester. Dale [...]
Monty Halls joins in with Checkum
Yesterday, I traveled to London to shoot another celebrity for the Checkum testicular cancer awareness campaign. Keep following my blog to find out who braved all to camera this time – all will be revealed soon! In the meantime, I have posted another campaign poster. View my past blog entries for other posts relating to [...]
Ian’s ‘Checkum’ images appear on TV
BBC Bargain Hunt presenter, Jonathan Pratt was one of the latest celebrities to take part in ‘Checkum’, the ongoing testicular cancer awareness campaign where celebrities bravely shed their clothes in the name of charity (see here for further details). Over the past few months I have been commissioned by sponsors, Famousmales to photograph those who [...]
Another celeb shoot – Checkum charity campaign
Following on from my previous blog entries, a recent trip to London resulted in another celebrity in the can for the ongoing charity campaign,‘Checkum’. This time we photographed former Hollyoaks star Marcus Patrick (aka Ben Davies), who has also appeared in BBC TV’s Strictly Ice Dancing and Weakest Link, amongst others. Although we used a central [...]
Article in Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2011
A&C Black, publishers of the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook have recently recommissioned an update to my ongoing article on the subject of working as a Professional Photographer. First published in 1998, the article has been updated over the years to accommodate the many changes that have taken place in this ever-evolving industry. Since the advent [...]
Latest shoot – X Factor’s Laura White
Monday the 1st of November took me to a central Manchester studio to photograph star of X Factor, Laura White. The photos were taken mostly for merchandising purposes for Laura’s current tour with Peter Andre, for the cover of her new tour CD, plus her website and Twitter site – more info on Laura’s blog [...]
Celebrity males strip for charity!
If you have been following my blog you will know from past entries that I have been working on an on-going national charity campaign called ‘Checkum’. The aim of the campaign, sponsored by famousmales.uk.net, is to raise awareness of testicular cancer and ultimately encourage men to get themselves regularly checked out against the disease. Radio interview [...]
Cold snap – the local park!
Further to my las blog entry, just a few days later the snow came tumbling down all over Britain. Here are a few scenes from the local park in Wilmslow, Cheshire. All shot with a Nikon D2x and 18-200 vr lens.
Going, going, gone: Latest shoot in Sussex
Click any image to view larger version. A recent overnight photo shoot took me to Billingshurst in West Sussex, where I was assigned to shoot Jonathan Pratt, Managing Director of Bellmans Auctioneers and star of BBC 1′s Bargain Hunt. The location was a four hour Journey away from my home near Manchester, but thankfully it [...]
Cast and crew of movie – ‘The Descent 2′
Click image for larger view My friend Simeon Halligan and partner Rachel Richardson-Jones recently organised Manchester horror film festival – Grimmfest. In addition to screening Simeon’s own feature film ‘Splintered’, the festival is also hosting a number of other films within the Horror genre and includes interactive events such as public signings and Q and A [...]
Ian thraves cheshire wedding photography – feature in County Brides magazine
Wedding magazine, County Brides has recently published an illustrated article featuring some of the images I captured at the wedding of Rachael Lindemann (formerly Lee). The article has been written by Rachael herself, who describes her experiences leading up to the wedding and expresses the emotions and excitement she felt on the day. Rachael was [...]
Ian publishes article on Professional Photography
Once again, I have published my on-going article in the 2010 edition of the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook (A&C Black) on the subject of working as a Professional Photographer. First published in 1998, the article has been updated over the years to accommodate the many changes that have taken place in this ever-evolving industry. Since [...]
Celebrity exposure – Ian’s pics in Scarlet
Further to my blog entry of March 1st (on the subject of Robbie Williams lookalike Tony Lewis), the current issue of Scarlet magazine have published another double-page-spread, this time featuring my images of Adam Child from Channel 4′s Shipwrecked. Some of these images have been previously published in Heat magazine – to view the full [...]
Ian’s pics in hot women’s magazine – ‘Scarlet’
Following on from my blog entry of last November the 12th, the photos of Robbie Williams look-alike, Tony Lewis have finally been published in the current issue of Scarlet, a national UK women’s magazine. I was pleased to find that one image was used as a double page spread …but no doubt I will be [...]
Ian to publish article on professional photography
Since 1998 I have published an on-going article in the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook (A&C Black) on the subject of working as a professional Photographer. I am delighted to confirm that the publishers have recently asked me to contribute to the 2010 edition. For those interested in making a living from photography, the article offers a wealth [...]
Beware the digital amateur!
click image to view larger version Amateur digital photographers have definitely affected many photography markets, especially those that only require ‘straight’ and unimaginative images, such as (on the most part) the wedding photography market. Sadly, many potential wedding clients are making the mistake of commissioning ‘uncle Joe’ to shoot their wedding because ‘he owns a decent [...]
