Raindrops Rewarded

A big thank you to Daryl, a Sunday Shoot visitor, for taking part in last year's 'An English Summer' project. His rainswept portrait was chosen as a finalist in the prestigious Association of Photographers Awards 2008 and is now immortalised in the Awards book. Of over 4000 images submitted by members only 316 made it through to final show. To see all the selected images follow this link www.the-awards.com

A star is born

When Irish advertising agency CawleyNea TBWA were in search of the true face of boredom for their recent Entertainment.ie campaign they used the Sunday Shoots website as a casting resource. Hidden away in last year’s 'Roto Foto' project was the beautiful and spirited Eva Kiivit who unwittingly possessed a hidden talent for acting and, in particular, looking really, really bored. Shot by Seamus and art directed by Mark Black the poster campaign ran all over Ireland. Eva is rumoured to be working on a number of other expressions including mildly displeased and the elusive 'blue steel'.

Famous Seamus

Sunday Shoots were the subject of a nice feature inthelondonpaper on October 23rd. With a readership of over 700,000 londoners, we are expecting an invasion of new visitors over the coming weeks. Thanks to freelance journalist Retna Wooller for stumbling upon us and getting the word out there.

To read the full article click here.

Mister T in the house

One of the many participants to grace our recent project The Sitting was famous playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. Seamus had constructed a rough set from weathered plywood and borrowed his landlord's chair (found in the 1960's in a Welsh mini cab office) to create a space for visitors to occupy. The idea was to create a movie where the chair never moves but its sitters are constantly changing.

Not only did Sir Tom enter into the spirit of the portrait project he seemed to have dressed that day with the set in mind, right down to his shoe laces. The resulting image has since been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery as part of its permanent collection. It now hangs in the July Acquisitions section of the gallery.

Sir Tom, who has just celebrated his seventieth birthday, made history at the recent Tony Awards where his nine hour trilogy The Coast of Utopia won a record seven awards.