Derren Brown- The Great Art Robbery

Derren Brown from our recent shoot for his new show, 'The Great Art Robbery'. The show airs on Channel 4 on December 13th.

The Turner Prize 2013 React Campaign

For the first time in its history the Turner Prize was held this year out side London. Derry-Londonderry is 2013 City of Culture and was given the honour of hosting the prestigious prize. The React campaign, brainchild of advertising agency Kindred aimed to engage the people of Derry and further afield in contemporary art and to record their reactions. The resulting images formed a city dressing linking citizens of Ireland with the art that showcased in Derry. Seamus travelled for ten days around Ireland, North and South, in a specially converted campervan studio to record the reactions. To see more click here.

The Daddy

Two sides of the great Ray Winstone from my recent shoot for The Reader's Digest Christmas cover. And yes, he actually is the Daddy.

The Paperdandy

All hail Marc Hagan-Guirey, known also as The Paperdandy. We worked together to take this tongue in cheek shot. Kirigami is an incredibly complicated version of origami that involves cutting and folding and Marc has created a unique branch of this ancient art. His Horrorgami project presented 13 famous haunted houses, each cut from a single shoot of paper. If you share my love of true craft do visit his website.

Think! Don't Drink and Drive Campaign

My recent shoot for the Think campaign warning of the consequences of Drink Driving. Each poster shows the various people a convicted drink driver is likely to meet, from the arresting officer, magistrate, prison officer, right through to the guy who buys the car at a knock down price. Taxi!

POW!

A noisy and rather fun shoot with three very talented actors to herald the series of live events at Bluewater this summer. Getting reactions like this involves the dark arts. Please don't try this at home.

Amen to that!

Here's the poster from my latest shoot with the National Theatre. The wonderful Marianne Jean-Baptiste in full flow in preparation for her part as the uncompromising pastor in The Amen Corner, a play set in 1950's Harlem.

Tally Ho! Isn't it though?

Now this shoot was fun! Two of my favourite comedians effortlessly embodying the Dunkirk Spirit and their own take on London slang. God like art direction from Russell Wailes and deft copywriting from Tim Garth. Advertising is alive and well.

Desperately Seeking Denise

               

Denise Van Outen stepped into Madonna's 80's shoes for our shoot on Monday. As part of Comic Relief's 25th Red Nose Day Denise is encouraging everyone to dress up and go to Sainsburys to buy a Red Nose.

Sunday Morning Blues

Meet four of the many who joined in my 'Moody Portaits' themed Sunday Shoot last week. They really cheered me up! To see the talented others at their broodiest please click here.

Shooting for the Bard

Another poster shoot that satisfied my love for drama and strong design. My first for the National Theatre and what a wonderful commission to get. It doesn't get much better than Othello, directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear. Much respect to Matthew Mifsud for his vision and art direction.

Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me.

 Here's the result of my second collaboration with the lovely Derren Brown and retoucher par excellence Marc Hagan-Guirey. Make up deftly applied by Jenny Kewley. Shot in my studio which, I hasten to add, is not quite as distressed as the shot suggests.

Billy beat my Godfather!

Meeting and photographing Billy Connolly was beyond bliss. His brand of funny has made me laugh out loud for as long as I can remember. Little did the great man know that I had a score to settle. Back in the heady days of Celtic folk in the backstreets of Glasgow Billy picked a fight with my Godfather, the songwriter, singer and novelist Dominic Behan. No doubt drink was taken and by all accounts Billy stumbled off the victor. The fight was broken up by the legendary Dubliners lead singer Ronnie Drew. Billy assures me that he returned the next day to apologise and that the three men remained great friends from then on. Many thanks to Martin at Reader's Digest for helping with the reconciliation.