If you are looking for editorial or corporate photography in the south of Scotland (including Edinburgh and Glasgow) or northern England, I’m ideally placed and generally able to respond quickly.
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I provide digital files from a 24.6 megapixel camera system which are the largest currently available using a editorially-friendly 35mm style kit, with the option of course for smaller files when needed. I have a permanent studio for small products, it’s not ideal for personal visitor (portraits) and in any case I’m not a studio portrait person and have always produced environmental portraiture for newspapers, magazines, and corporate uses. I have a full portable flash gear but, again, tend to make little use of it and prefer natural light where possible.
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I’ve been publishing magazines now since 1988 when we moved to Scotland and commissioned photography is an occasional rather than daily thing. Prior to that, I freelanced for publications including the Sunday Times (social-environmental pages and business news), Guardian, New Scientist, Times Educational Supplement, Illustrated London News, Observer, Telegraph, and many national magazines. In the 1980s I owned two studios specialising in catalogue and advertising photography with employed photographers.
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If you are looking for a complete PR/journalism and photographic package, that’s how I started back in 1975 after the strikes of 1974 and the acrimony shown towards an NUJ journalist who dared to take pictures. I left my newspaper and became a freelance editor, designer, writer, map-maker, exhibition builder and anything else I could do to earn money. In 1979 I qualified as a photographer with the IIP, but I was already well enough known for pictures by that time.
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Today, I don’t do much commercial work but write camera reviews for the British Journal and run a couple of magazines. Most of my photography is ‘internal’ or travel and pictorial/street shooting which probably relates more to the amateur enthusiast than the professional world. But, I’m still around and can still walk into a room, meet someone who’s got one minute to spare, make three exposures and come out with the best news portrait they’ve had. I do not do hammed up PR stunt local newspaper shots, and if you ask me to shoot a grip-and-grin presentation it will be just as boring as it deserves to be. I do like meeting people and making pictures which tell stories.
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You can reach me on 01573 226032 or mobile 0797 125 0786.
– David