What feels like a hundred years ago a portrait of a girl stopped me in my tracks. It was the summer of 1985 – and it was on the front cover of the National Geographic Magazine. And a very much younger Annie (not-even-Burbage) stood transfixed on a busy railway platform in London – oblivious to…
Continue ReadingA Portrait of Polly
Towards the end of last year Pollys Mum phoned. She told me that they weren’t the kind of family who had a lot a photographs. Photographs just weren’t their ‘thing’. She hadn’t even had a wedding photographer (#sobsquietly) However – 11 year old Polly was growing up. Moreover she had just won a music…
Continue ReadingA Portrait of a Wedding
Just over 12 months ago I was sitting quietly at my desk editing a portrait sitting when the phone rang. On the other end of the line was a frantic female voice who – in the space of about three minutes – and without so much as pausing for breath – told me: She was…
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