I’ve just finished editing a crazy feature involving axes, baseball bats, golf clubs and sledgehammers……..I’m off out of town on a job but will hopefully be able to post some images from the shoot later this week , if and when I get back?!!

I shot this the other day of Sir Richard Branson.  He was attending the Global Commission on Drug Policy conference at the Waldorf Astoria here in New York City.  We had very limited time to do an interview and to get a usable portrait to be used as the main interview in the Saturday section of The Guardian.  Options were extremely limited as the conference was held in a typical hotel conference suite.  We had to grab him get words and a portrait between sessions.  I wanted to include a little taste of New York  as a background if possible, rather than a dull hotel space.  I found a window with a bit of a view with some blue sky, threw up a light with a softbox and angled it so there would be no hotspots on the glass window, which is often tricky at the best of times!  Sir Richard is always professional and accommodating, a fantastic front man even when extremely jet lagged and exhausted!

Sir Richard Branson

and this is what they ended up using….