The launch party for the new 2009 – 2010 Shred Brochure and Price Guide took place last Friday at Carpe Diem in Plymouth and the brochure will now be distributed to nearly 3000 businesses across Plymouth and the surrounding Devon and Cornwall districts. The commercial portraits were shot by myself (all but one) on location at various Shred Ltd Clients’ premises; each one an environmental location portrait of the client featured in the brochure, to be run full page vertical and composed to allow room for the graphics laid over the images featuring a short bio of the business. Featured above is the opening spread featuring Shred Managing Director Steve Toze alongside Designer Jim, and below is John Crouch of the National Marine Aquarium, Myles Hutchins of surf goods (including Dragon Eyeware) distributor Hectic Ltd, and finally Gary Bees of PC Towbar Services. I had a great time working on the photos for the brochure and look forward to producing images for future Shred projects; check out the full brochure at http://www.shredpublishing.co.uk/page2.htm
Portraits I was assigned to produce of the Irish National Champion and AG2R La Mondiale rider Nicolas Roche can be found illustrating an interview in the new November 2009 issue of Cycle Sport Magazine (race photos by Graham Watson). The photographs were shot on location at this year’s Tour of Britain at an overnight hotel which was taken over by most of the race entourage and participating teams. There was a lot of waiting around at the location and very little time with the subjects in an extremely limiting setting – as you would expect when trying to shoot professional cyclists in the middle of a major eight-day stage race – but I love the challenge of working on location and the finished article looks great with a nice choice of images and good layout. A couple of the highlights during the downtime included seeing the eventual overall Tour of Britain winner Edvald Boasson Hagen roll into the hotel car park on his time trial bike after riding back to the hotel (after winning that day’s stage), followed a little later in the evening by the entire police cavalcade. Also worth a mention is the photo below of Agritubel team riders Nicolas Vogondy and Freddy Bichot who walked straight in to the studio I’d set up in a conference room on the ground floor of the hotel, sat down and demanded to have their photo taken; I figured why not, squeezed off a single frame and they jumped up, gave me their email addresses and were off…
