Meet the Mac (again)

So hes back again! You better hide your girlfriends Its David Mcintosh aka Tornado from Gladiators, we teamed up once more to up the tempo, give him a new vibe, a little more dirty and uncouth, less clean, he is a marine after all. Recently I have been trying to make things look more raw, but still natural and not too posed, its actually harder than you think unless you work with models who live and breathe to pose.



I also worked with this guy back some time ago in 2008, when I got my first full-page feature printed in The Daily Star, as a photographer and as a writer! Ahhh yes, multi-talented here and I got the diploma to prove it! Still quite proud of my 2.1 considering everything else I juggled at the time.



It followed up with lots of positive comments and feedback, that made TDS readers hungry for more… well he was butt naked, with only a few rounds of ammunition to cover his pride, I was quite controversial back then...



So of course I gave them more…



Thanks to Michael Booker (editor at The Daily Star), for giving me that chance to push my work out there as a writer first and as a photographer. Huge thanks to David also, I actually found and contacted Mr. Mcintosh on myspace.com way before he got the gladiators job, from when I saw him I knew he was going to be big, so its funny how things work out, God is good my friends, trust your vision and always have faith in your path, the truth of ‘religion’ will never let you down x

It’s the local fame game

Also a big thank you to Syreeta McQueen for getting me this sweet little feature in the local paper, really appreciated and an enjoyable read.



I kind of like reading about myself in these articles, just saying! Its nice that’s all, a little appreciation from my home town I grew up in, you know? It was about half a page, pretty damn good I would say! x

Here comes the Goodge!

So I present to you Lauren Goodger from TOWIE, the only way is up! A photoshoot for her new collection in association with Fashion Capital and New Look.



I have received a lot of positive feedback about this image, most of which mentioning that ‘she looks so different’ and in actual fact “she looks better here than she does on the show”, well I cant say much on that people, but I think with a glam-squad like Joy Adenuga (make up artist), Kasia Fortuna (hair) and Syreeta McQueen (stylist and trustee), its hard to go wrong really! Thanks ladies, another last-minute.com operation, completed to satisfaction x

Fashion in illustration - Terrence Brown

Illustration within fashion has inspired me for the longest time now, going to fashion week and glancing at sketches, paintings merged with fashion photography, its all highly commendable stuff that I see very rarely, only on the odd editorial for Italian Vogue maybe, but normally it requires a skill that only the best will incorporate into their work; Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, Patrick Demarchelier, Thierry Le Goues… living legends! Here we have the artwork from Terrence Brown, a very highly skilled sketcher indeed, I have touched on his creations before, but I do love his approach to fashion with pencil.



There is something very graceful, elegant and majestic about Terrence’s work, he knows how to bring women alive, how to make them unique and daringly bold.



Simply prestige Terrence, I look forward to our next collaboration.

Naughty boy - Igor Stepanov (Select model management)

Okay, so first things first, this boy turns up at my studio and says “I expected you to be older…”, URM? How very dare you lol, not all photographers are old and grey thank you, the name Arron Dunworth does sound a little sophisticated though doesn’t it? I like it!



Relaxed much Igor? I think a bonus to my age is working with younger models, I don’t mess about with my words, I just tell them what to do and they get on with it, its not the fact of Igor attempting to lick out my camera lens that makes me say this, but you can just tell when a model is comfortable, their body language, their eyes… I mean Igor is a cheeky boy anyway, but sometimes that same cockiness wont always come out so naturally if for say, an older photographer was shooting Igor, connection is important.

We meet again Omari! I find that a lot of models travel in different packs, its actually quite intriguing… but Omari was tagging along with Igor that day, so I thought why not? Let me just shoot off a couple of frames…



Some of you may remember Omari if you go back to my earlier blogs, he was a new face to the modelling game when I first shot him, so I recommended to his uncle Neal Mcleod that he sign with Select… lo and behold its now a done deal, just recently featuring in a full fashion editorial for HERO magazine and off to New York soon, *sighs*.

By-eck Chuck!

I’ve seen a lot of faces, but this was one I had to get for the book, again its something that I cant really describe, the light brown hair, the blue eyes, the blonde goatee, his slightly albino-like quality, what can I say? Mixed ethnicities is my thing! Some people like leopard print, others like zebra, I like a bit of both at the same time, hmmm, now there’s one for you to think about.



Simple styling and photography by me, I keep thinking if I should start learning more about styling and/or male grooming, hmmm, perhaps.

Screen Nation Awards

When all the talented people come out to play and what a night it was, there was so many people showing me love, networking with top industry professionals and seeing familiar faces, I don’t go out much anymore, too busy writing blogs as you can probably see *actually laughing out loud*, gosh how sad… lol, but anyways! It was a pleasure and an honour to accompany Dionne Smith and Bianca Laurent that night, I got an access all areas pass, so I rolled through everywhere including the red carpet.



It was a very beautiful thing to be surrounded by so many creative people, genuine and pure, DJ Sarah Jane, Akala, Billy and Kym from Eastenders, Adam Deacon, Jimmy Akingbola and Nate James even commented on my blazer, oh happy days! Lol, congratulations to everyone who won an award that evening, keep striving for more, don’t give up the dream x