The new July 2009 issue of Cycle Sport Magazine is now on sale in the UK and USA and I’m pleased to say is packed with portraits that I shot on assignment for the publication. Three interviews in the magazine are illustrated with my photographs; Olympic Gold medallist and World Champion Nicole Cooke in Italy (above and below), Tour de France Green Jersey winner Robbie McEwen at home in Belgium, and American sprinter Tyler Farrar in his adopted home town of Gent, Belgium. To read the interviews and see more of my images pick up a copy of the magazine at any WH Smiths in the UK or any other good newsagents in the UK or US (archive race photography by Graham Watson).
This is a portrait is I made of Gen Kelsang Lekma as part of a loose personal project I’ve been working on as and when I get the time. Gen Lekma is the current resident teacher at the Ashoka Kadampa Buddhist Meditation Centre in Plymouth, which I was surprised to find when arriving on location has a very nice vegetarian cafe on site. While I can’t speak for the centre’s meditation workshops I can certainly recommend their coffee; and where else can you get an espresso poured by a Buddhist monk?
Another technological marvel; doesn’t seem like that long ago I was shooting black and white negs and fumbling with spools in the darkroom and here I am with a website, blog, Facebook account and now Twitter as well. Still not sure whether it’s a revolutionary new way of communicating or just another waste of my time, but either way you can now keep a track of where I am and what I’m doing via my Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/SimonKeitch
Last night I was assigned to photograph Debra Searle MBE for trade publication Accounting and Business Magazine who was speaking at an event held by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) at The Great Barn near Exeter in Devon. Debra is still best known for her solo row across the Atlantic, but now runs her own successful company alongside presenting television programs for the BBC, writing for the Express and Telegraph (as well as two books published about her experiences) and of course the motivational speaking at corporate events such as this one.
A video featuring my new portfolio; despite the fact that a print portfolio could be considered to have been rendered obsolete by the advent of the internet it’s still an invaluable tool to have; printed images have a quality to them that you just don’t get from a computer monitor, and it’s nice to have an excuse to actually meet with prospective clients face-to-face, as after all, you can’t really gain an understanding of a person or company via the web, regardless of how good their website may be. If you’d like to view my book please get in touch.
The new July 2009 issue of Cycle Sport Magazine is now on sale in the UK and USA and I’m pleased to say is packed with portraits that I shot on assignment for the publication. Three interviews in the magazine are illustrated with my photographs; Olympic Gold medallist and World Champion Nicole Cooke in Italy (above and below), Tour de France Green Jersey winner Robbie McEwen at home in Belgium, and American sprinter Tyler Farrar in his adopted home town of Gent, Belgium. To read the interviews and see more of my images pick up a copy of the magazine at any WH Smiths in the UK or any other good newsagents in the UK or US (archive race photography by Graham Watson).
