The opportunity to work alongside some of the most talented artists and technicians in the film industry provided Colin with a deep understanding of lighting techniques together with a desire to draw out exceptional and nuanced performances from his subjects. These skills are now applied to his advertising and sports assignments which convey a powerful sense of drama and strength. On commercial assignments he strives to create the most graphic distillation of the brief and recent campaigns for major brands have included Nike, Hunter and BT Sport.
In addition to advertising commissions and editorial celebrity portraits he regularly shoots concept-driven key art for film, television and music productions. From briefing to shooting he adopts a collaborative approach throughout the image making process. Increasingly, commercial productions incorporate the digital capture of print campaigns alongside moving image and much of his work is now produced within this framework. His photographs have twice been selected for exhibition at the Taylor Wessing Portrait Award and several works are now included in the permanent collection of the National Portrait gallery.
Clients
AMV BBDO · Australian Postal Corporation · BBH · Bloomsbury · Boucheron · BT Sport · Cartier · Channel 4 · Conde Nast · Decca · Discovery Channel · EMI · Entertainment One · ESPN · Focus Features · HBO · Hunter · Lionsgate · Motorola · Nike · Paramount Pictures · Penguin Random House · Reebok · Royal Court Theatre · Sky · Sony · TBWA · Twentieth Century Fox · UEFA · UNICEF · Universal Music · Universal · Warner Bros · Wieden and Kennedy · Working Title Films Editorial: 1843 · Io Donna · Elle · Empire · ESPN Magazine · Esquire · Fast Company · Forbes · Harpers Bazaar · i-D · Marie-Claire · The Observer · Ray Gun Magazine · The Sunday Times · Time Magazine · Vanity Fair
Subjects
Sergio Agüero · Jessica Alba · Damon Albarn · Martin Amis · Ant and Dec · Sean Bean · Victoria Beckham · Monica Bellucci · Mary Berry · Paul Bettany · Cate Blanchett · Oswald Boateng · Helena Bonham Carter · Billy Bragg · Jim Broadbent · Pierce Brosnan · Rob Brydon · David Byrne · Simon Callow · Vincent Cassell · Kim Cattrall · John Cleese · Jarvis Cocker · Steve Coogan · Philippe Coutinho · Simon Cowell · Mackenzie Crook · Russell Crowe · Craig David · Judi Dench · Kirsten Dunst · Chiwetel Ejiofor · Jessica Ennis · Chris Evans · Lee Evans · Alberta Ferretti · Brian Ferry · Ralph Fiennes · Colin Firth · Michael Frayn · Martin Freeman · Stephen Fry · David De Gea · Ricky Gervais · Terry Gilliam · Richard E Grant · Naomie Harris · P J Harvey · Keeley Hawes · Salma Hayek · Eden Hazard · Tom Hiddleston · Rhys Ifans · Jeremy Irons · Eddie Izzard · Samuel L Jackson · David Jason · Tom Jones · Jon Bon Jovi · Harry Kane · Ross Kemp · Diana Krall · Jude Law · Nigella Lawson · John Legend · Damian Lewis · Andrew Lincoln · Laura Linney · Romelu Lukaku · Kyle Maclachlan · Sir George Martin · James McAvoy · Helen McCrory · Kelly McDonald · Ewan McGregor · Sir Ian McKellen · Ben Miller · Sienna Miller · Jose Mourinho · Peter Mullan · Bill Nighy · Graham Norton · Jamie Oliver · Rita Ora · Ozzie Osbourne · Ronnie O'Sullivan · Mesut Ozil · Justine Picardie · Billie Piper · David Puttnam CBE · Gordon Ramsay · Red Hot Chilli Peppers · Sir Steve Redgrave · Mark Ronson · Wayne Rooney · Jonathan Ross · Shaun Ryder · Claudia Schiffer · Kristin Scott Thomas · Michael Sheen · David Silva · Mark E Smith · Sir Paul Smith · Sheridan Smith · Stereophonics · Tilda Swinton · Tinie Tempah · Steven Tyler · Rachel Weiss · Robbie Williams ·