thing on a photographers blog who said studying photography was a complete waste of time. I wanted to give the guy a good slap! But instead I think I shall try and change his mind with words if I ever bump into him. Unrelated to photography I’ve learnt that getting drunk is a waste of time and money and you’re not allowed to complain about being broke if you’re boozing weekly. Who are the models you normally feature in shoots organised by yourself? I work a lot with a smashing lady called Rebecca Bone (http://doxed.tumblr.com). I must have shot with her on ten different occasions. She’s very nice and we’ve developed a good working relationship. I think it’s really important to work with people over and over till shooting becomes more of a hang out. It is a saturday night, what are you doing? Oh what, really? This is embarassing. Probably watching re runs of black books and scanning negatives. I’ll occasionally break to swig some chocolate milk, perhaps go for a skate, then back to my flat for some xbox with my equally geeky flatmates. These are all cool things right? What is your dream job? I’d like to work for LIFE magazine. But it doesn’t exist any more, so maybe National Geographic. Basically working for good magazines and travelling. I love print media, it sucks big time that it’s being rendered obsolete by stupid inventions like the kindle and the Ipad. What is the strangest thing that has ever happened on a shoot? I don’t think anything that weird has happened to me. I remember one shoot involved being waist deep in a lake, shooting a half naked model, holding stuffed owl worth six grand. But that shoot was always going to BE weird, other than that it went smoothly. Favourite place you’ve ever visited? I went to Western Sahara, which is also Morocco... the politics is complicated. But that was awesome. I was there for about six hours with a friend on a cruise ship and I really want to go back. There were amazing beaches, and just over the road houses riddled with bullet and shell holes. People wanted their photos taken with us just because we were Western and white. I really think you could make some amazing photographs there.
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