In the summer of 2018, I got commissioned to shoot for Japanese pop legends Mr. Children. It turned out to be an amazing experience.
From the mid-1980s, I'v...
Visiting factories all over Japan, shooting staff, technology and facilities, it continues to be a lot of fun working on this project.
For over a year now, ...
I've done about five or six shoots for The Official Ferrari Magazine and for this most recent one, I headed down south to meet Ferrari Japan's best customer.
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An essential part of the media and promotions pack for any actor is a portfolio of decent portraits. Back in summer of 2018, I was approached by Tokyo-based ac...
Now the movie triptych I worked on two parts of has premiered, I can post some of the shots I took working as the publicity and behind-the-scenes photographer....
For three years, I've had the pleasure of being chief photographer at Advertising Week's Asia event in Tokyo. A busy four days, but always great fun.
Since bei...
I recently spent a week shooting Tokyo from various elevated vantage points with the Hasselblad H4D-40 and the HTS1.5 tilt-shift adaptor. Here are few of the re...
Last week I spent some hours shooting various portrait styles in the studio with a new friend, singer and dancer Nikki. This post contains nudity.
By the wa...
It's been maybe six or seven years since I've been up the Mori Tower, to the 52nd floor viewing area at Tokyo City View. Just before New Year, I took myself, th...
Towards the end of September, 2017, I spent a day shooting fashion across two locations in Tokyo for my friend Alexandria's new creative agency startup that she...
A couple of hours in a part of Tokyo that feels totally like the countryside, gave us a lovely set of fresh, nature-filled fashion photos.
I was first introduc...
Alfie Goodrich first picked up a camera at five years-old. He had his first work published in 1991, aged 22. Since 2007, he has been living and working in Japan...
An hour or two floating around Asakusa and the streets to the north of the temple district gave us a chance to enjoy the last, magical light of the day.
I wa...
Shooting fashion on location in Tokyo is one of my favourite things. This shoot ended up with some great shots, two broken (one destroyed) flashes and with me b...
In April of 2017 the second edition of the Housing Japan magazine under my design tenure came out. It proved more popular than the first edition, Vol.10, which ...
Back in February, I spent a few days in Kyoto to shoot an assignment for a Canadian magazine. Here's some of my out-takes from the shoot.
Kyoto is always nic...
Two days of lessons, then a fashion shoot. Karen Sissal talks about coming to Tokyo from The Faroe Islands, to up her photography game and do the first shoot ...
Sometimes you meet someone you click with. Sometimes you meet someone who thinks the same way you do. It doesn't happen often but it when it does, it's magic.
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I've been really busy of late so it was nice to get out of the city for a few days recently, including an overnight stay in Nikko. 15cms of snow overnight was ...
An opportunity to shoot with the super-friendly outgoing Canadian ambassador to Japan in his residence.
I've shot for a few publications owned by the same pu...
A day out in Tokyo shooting some of Vacheron's latest watches on location for D'Marge magazine.
I'd first come across D'Marge magazine via Flipboard, as it w...
Over the last couple or three years, I've done a few of what I call 'cup ramen shoots'. The idea is basically to shoot a fashion set in about the time it would ...
It's been just a few months since the new flagship Tokyu Plaza mall opened in Ginza/Yurakuch, Tokyo. And it offers some amazing new high views.
A new high vi...
Last summer I got together with a model and one of her favourite Japanese fashion designers, to make some photos in the area around the old Olympic stadia in Ko...
Back in November of last year I was commissioned by an advertising agency to shoot a portrait of a Japanese Nissan LEAF owner, for display as a huge print on th...
Back in December of 2014, I ventured a couple of hours drive out into the countryside of Saitama to shoot some pics for a young and very talented Australian fas...
One of the things about shooting travel photography, especially for inflight magazines, is that there is a lot of material that doesn't get used. This is the fi...
Towards the end of 2015, I was asked by a Tokyo real-estate company I was shooting for to get involved and design the next issue of their magazine. It's been a ...
Location and studio fashion photography in Tokyo and across Japan: typically I work on location, doing shoots in Tokyo and other Japanese cities and rural areas...
Portrait photographer in Tokyo, Japan: my portrait commissions are very varied, including commissions from private individuals, people visiting Japan, editorial...
In February of 2015, I was chosen to be the British Embassy in Tokyo's official photographer for the visit to Japan of HRH The Duke of Cambridge. It was a huge ...
I'm a bit of a generalist as far as photography is concerned and regularly shoot for a wide range of magazines, including inflight, travel, corporate, business,...
In the past few years I've been shooting cars and trucks for a variety of clients including Ferrari, AMG-Mercedes, Porsche, Lexus and UD Trucks. I generally sho...
Taking pictures of children, whether my own or other people's, is something I enjoy immensely. My own three children still love the camera and we are often out ...
The collection of images in this gallery covers the variety of work done a few years ago for fashion business, PrixPrix, from shooting the ranges of clothes the...
Over the past 16 years of living in and visiting Japan, I've grown slightly obsessed with umbrellas. Maybe it's connected to my love for the film 'Bladerunner',...
Highly colourful, very plentiful and always around: Tokyo's taxis have been a photographic obsession of mine ever since first visiting.
Taxis are one of the ...
Trains are fast, clean and on-time in Japan. In fact, since first coming here sixteen years ago, I've found it hard to get on trains on many other countries and...
Hanami, or cherry-blossom season, in Japan is one of the most amazing times of the year. Since first coming here, it's been a time of the year to relish getting...
Tsukiji is somewhere I've been visiting for about sixteen years, ever since first coming to Japan. Later this year it will move to a new site in Toyos...
