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Christina Aguilera shoot at Mandarin Hotel after Master Simon Wong did the Feng Shui for the hotel

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8th May 2009 Nikita, Dancer Shoreditch

“Real love does not seek to bind, control, or enslave, but to liberate, to empower, to set others free to find their own truth”

I am keen to do some new shoots but it is really important to reflect on what I have done in the past and where I am now.  I’m not doing these posts in any particular chronological order, just as I come across the pictures that I like and then I can order the posts in the date order that the pictures were shot.

Solitaire very kindly helped me out at the last minute on a shoot for a Channel 4 programme entitled “What Really Happened William and Harry” that was hosted by Jacques Peretti  investigating how the Princes emerged as modern A-list celebrities.

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We did the shoot at Bordello, luxurious lingerie and all things boudoiresque, on 8th December 2008 relating to a Prince Harry incident on 20th October  2004 when Prince Harry came out of the then Pangaea and hit a paparazzi photographer Chris Uncle. This was a more interesting contrast than looking like a steorotypical pap standing outside a club randomly flashing people leaving.

Three days earlier I did a shot with Sobriety and Glamour Kitten doing the styling that was the first time I had done my own creative shoot for far too long

The second shoot we did with Solitaire was 23rd March 2009 and this was another Ashby/Pycraft production and we shot these pictures in the flat upstairs, on the stairwell and on the roof of the apartment block where I live. I like this shot and the mellow natural lighting.

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Raique Hyde Park Shots on a beautiful May Sunday afternoon by the Serpentine, Hyde Park

At the beginning of September we had a great shoot with Lucy Wills doing the styling, direction and imaging working with jewellery by Seraglia and clothes by Good One. Joe Mehmet at Joe’s Salon in Burlington Arcade did excellent work with Harriet’s hair and make up artist Annabelle Miller beautifully  complimented the overall style. I like the Mayfair/Shoreditch contrast and in these shots we used Benoit Ollive and  Nychos Rem’s street art as a backdrops. The light was great and the weather was warm, a mellow introduction to autumn.

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