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View fullsize Jason Kwan is originally from Hong Kong, but lives in London where he works as a glam pop singer, songwriter and performer. If you check his Instagram page, you can find a few clips of Jason performing. We however met on an unusually chilly (after the recent heatwave) August afternoon in Central London to take a few portraits of Jason. Portraits which by design are different from his more fashion-conscious portraits on Instagram. View fullsize We worked using film cameras only – a medium format Pentax 67 and a 35mm camera, my beloved Olympus OM1. Both cameras relied on Kodak Portra 400 to capture those warm pre-sunset tones. View fullsize Jason had just returned from Bestival, so this rather unglamorous (by design), pared-down session was a bit of a change for him. The images in this post are my favourites from the session. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize #portraiture #JasonKwan #Kodakportra400 #portrait #mediumformat #OlympusOM1 #Pentax67 #mediumformatphotography

View fullsize I have visited the Cycladic Islands in the middle of the gorgeously blue Aegean Sea, many times before. It’s a little corner of the planet I’m very familiar with. I have literally thousands and thousands of images from Greece I have taken over the past decade. There is a certain similarity between them, but the places I visit always keep enticing me with more beauty, stillness, incredible light and colours. So this post summarises – visually at least – my latest trip there, which covered four islands: Naxos, Paros, Antiparos and very briefly Mykonos. Most of the images in this post were taken on one of these islands, with some taken on the ferries between the islands. And despite the presence of some travellers, particularly on the ferry images, that was Greece at its best: unhurried, uncrowded, warm, quiet and mysterious. And as much as I try to avoid postcard photography, well, sometimes it’s better to throw yourself right in and enjoy the experience. #Greece #naxos #travel #travelphotography #paros

When a new day quietly sneaks in… I love those first rays of sun trying to make their way in first thing in the morning. Particularly after a few long and dark winter weeks. #light #photography

Matthew James Morrisson is a London-based actor and model. I photographed him in February 2018 in Southwark, London. Here are a few of my favourite shots from that session. #headshot #model #portrait #portraiture

So many of my friends have recently moved out of London and chosen to live by the sea in Kent. If for some reason I got lost in Whitstable, Margate or Broadstairs, I would probably (hopefully) find a bed or two to stay the night. Many of them have moved out mostly because property prices in London have reached obscene levels, others simply got tired of the endless rat race in the capital and wanted a change in scenery. And a change it is. I decided to spend a day in Margate with my camera and – to my surprise – I really enjoyed it. Yes, Cliftonville still is a bit rough around the edges, the old Victorian charm of the nearby seafront buildings is long gone and the influx of Londoners has brought with it its inevitable gentrification (I haven’t seen so many Scandi-design shops since I last visited Islington and Shoreditch). Margate seafront But the Old Town with its galleries, cafes and shops is lovely as is the seafront parade by the sandy town beach. Not just fish’n’chips, you know. Then there is the stunning Turner Contemporary gallery and the nearby Gormley sculpture, visible only when the tide is low (which it wasn’t when I was there). I found Margate’s famous Dreamland fascinating and depressing in equal measure. If you want to see a living, breathing, screaming and screeching definition of a misnomer, do visit Dreamland in the middle of the high season. But other than that, I did find the town fascinating and would love to go back to explore it a bit more. I’ll wait till it’s sunny and warm though. Here are my visual highlights from Margate: SEE ALSO: My 366 photography project – it’s a wrap! Read More → Chinatown, London Read More → Kew Gardens in winter Golden sun and green leaves. Kew Gardens in winter. Read More → Vaporetto Numero Due Fuji x100F is the perfect street photography camera. Here are my favourites from Venice. Read More → Brixton Market on a sunny summer afternoon Read More → The genius of Olafur Eliasson Read More → Jason Kwan – portraits Street portrait session with a London-based musician and performer. Read More → Paros, Naxos and the Cyclades at their finest – before the crowds arrive Cyclades before the tourists arrive… Read More → Early morning light When a new day quietly sneaks in… Read More → Portrait shoot: Matthew James Morrisson Matthew James Morrisson is a London-based actor and model. I photographed him in February 2018 in Southwark, London. Read More → #margate #photojournalism #picturegalleries

I do love the Barbican. The concrete, the endless curves, angles and lines. Thee people, the activity, the oppressiveness and the endless surprises. I walked around the estate today with my camera, looking for new angles and new places I haven’t yet discovered. But what I really loved today was the interplay of warm sunset rays and the cold concrete of the estate. Here are my favourites from today. #Barbican #photography

Excuse the stupid pun in the title, but since I already used it in my June post, I thought… Anyway, walked around the most overphotographed area of central London with my camera again, trying to see things from a different perspective. It’s good to sometimes do that, so that you don’t get stuck on the Big Ben or Tower Bridge, which most of London-based self-professed Instagram influencers seem to do these days. Anyway, must visit Mr Lasagna one day… #blackandwhite #londonphotography #streetphotography

In between client film work I’ve been taking some pictures of the people I meet professionally or privately. These two gentlemen are accidentally tied to a video project I’ll be launching soon – so stay tuned – although these black and white portraits have nothing to do with the project itself. The image above is of Gregory Tingay, a North London based artist and potter master. The picture was taken in the kiln room of his Archway pottery studio. And here is my friend, actor and collaborator, Dan Robb, and his meanest look. In real life, he’s all about comedy and good films, not mean at all. Both men will feature in the aforementioned video project coming to your social channel soon. Follow me on Twitter or Instagram to see when the videos launch and if you’re London-based you should love the films. #blackandwhiteportraits #photography #portrais

That smell of deep-fried meat. The fumes. The perfumes. The chewing gum and spilt beer on the pavements. The rubbish bags, the omnipresent advertising and the street performers with ever-changing audiences. The crowds and the loneliness of the city. London’s West End. These are some of the pictures I took recently in and around Soho, Chinatown and Piccadilly Circus. #blackandwhite #London #streetphotography

One of the new iOS 11 features coming soon to iPads and iPhones is likely to be screen recording. Apple’s WWDC 17 keynote didn’t actually mention it, but many developers have already tweeted about the feature. Here’s a brief video overview of the new functionality: Right now, a few months before the system’s release, it’s impossible to judge how useful the feature will be, what its limitations might be, but as a mobile filmmaker and journalist I really look forward to it. And so should you if you’re into mojo. The most obvious benefit to journalists working in the field would be the ability to record a FaceTime or a Skype interview and use the (hopefully) high quality footage straight away in whatever you might be filming or editing at that moment. The video below seems also to suggest that, once recorded, the video can also be annotated. The iOS 11 screen recording feature may also be useful if a journalist or filmmaker needs to annotate a map or an image, or indeed, another video.  There will no doubt be many other possibilities, let’s just wait till the feature is officially released. I’ll update this post then. #ios11 #mojo #screenrecording #mobilejournalism #video #ipad #apple #iphone

Last night Londoners and visitors to London came together again to show their support for the victims of the Westminster Bridge attack the day before. At 6pm, as the bells of the nearby St Martin-in-the-Fields chimed, the whole square fell silent. It was a moving moment. There was a heavy police presence, and a defiant atmosphere. The speeches by the Met Police Acting Commissioner Craig Mackey, Home Secretary Amber Rudd and London Mayor Sadiq Khan were short and greeted by applause from the crowd. Candles were lit and the world’s media were there to show everyone London is not afraid. #trafalgarsquare #vigil

I’m pleased to share with everyone my new music video for Jens Kuross. I fell in love with this track almost immediately. I heard We Will Run a few months ago and loved Jens’s voice. The video was shot in London and Greece, but also features a couple of shots from the English coast. Visually I’ve tried to keep the story simple and not to detract from the song itself. I know this song is doing really well and I’m hoping Jens’s fans – and everyone else – will also enjoy the visuals too. #JensKuross #Musicvideo