Aerial Photography – Standing to Attention!
My ‘PR Picture Editor’s Knowledge’ post on this site the other week included among other things serious and not so serious; “10. If you’re doing an aerial shot of people spelling out a brand name or...
View ArticleThe Face of your Company
People buy people, so it is important to reveal the human side of your enterprise, as very often the first image people see is the profile photo on your website, blog or social networking site. You...
View ArticlePostcards from the Park 2009 Competition
I spent Tuesday morning as a guest judge for Heritage Lottery Fund’s Postcards from the Park 2009 photography competition. The annual competition is designed to celebrate UK parks through photos that...
View ArticleThe End of the Embargo?
Interesting piece in the current issue of PR Week about concerns we could be seeing the ‘Slow death of the embargo’. The Wall Street Journal is believed to have introduced a new policy stipulating...
View ArticlePA Photocall’s Spotify Soundtrack
Music streaming website Spotify seems to have become one of the summer’s main talking points. I read with interest that the good people at The Dogs Trust had stolen a PR march on everyone & set up...
View ArticleRankin: The Creative Portrait Photographer
Rankin is a top name in the subversive stream of British fashion photography. Rankin Live is a unique exhibition on display at the Old Truman Brewery in London and gives the public the opportunity to...
View ArticleEugene Richards: The lives behind the sensation
I have been reading ‘the fat baby’ a collection of stories by acclaimed photographer Eugene Richards who has worked for Life, Time, Newsweek, and Esquire. He is a photojournalist in the truest sense of...
View ArticleHappy 3rd Birthday PA Photocall
British cheese producer Peter Mitchell sits on top of a half tonne Mature Farmhouse Cheddar, which forms part of the World`s Largest Cheese Board record attempt in accordance with the Guiness Book of...
View ArticleAn Insight into 3 years at PA Photocall
National Lottery Love UK Campaign June 2007. Geoff Caddick/PA Photocall On this day 3 years ago PA Hostpics was re-launched as PA Photocall and to celebrate this occasion I wanted to take at look at...
View ArticleHandle with EXTREME care!
This had to be one of the oddest briefs I have ever received. Photograph a box arriving at Heathrow, the contents of the box will not be visible at any time. Now I have been known to work wonders but...
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