I was asked by Dani Filth the lead singer of Cradle of Filth to shoot the album photography and promo images for their new album “Existence is Futile” This is one of my favourite bands to shoot as I get to go full creative and theatrical mode. This is the third album I’ve shot for the band and it’s so much fun!

In June I was asked to take some publicity stills for the BBC One show Sunday Morning Live with Sean Fletcher and the new co presentor Kate Bottley

Here’s some work I shot, directed and edited last year for the fantastic charity Generation

My Dying Bride - Your Broken Shore

The second music video I’ve directed for My Dying Bride. The previous being their last music video for the track” Feel the Misery”.

Here’s a piece I shot, directed and edited for the fantastic charity Generation

On the Road feature with Kris Barras for Classic Rock Magazine. Shot at their Caerphilly Castle show with Black Stone Cherry in Wales

Architects for Total Guitar Magazine

The Black Arm Band

A while back I spent some time with my friend Shellie Morris filming a personal project on the Black Arm Band. They played 2 nights at The Barbican in London and toured the world to universal acclaim. I created a 15 minute feature on the band and their powerful message. The Black Arm Band created music with western European and traditional Aboriginal musical instruments and sang in Aboriginal language and English Language. The Black Arm band represented what reconciliation should be. A mutual respect of cultures to create a new culture of acceptance, celebration and recognition of wrongs done in the past. Australia still has a long way to go in terms of equality, the Black Arm Band represents and gives a vision of an Australia I hope for. Below is a teaser. I’ll release the full feature on Australia Day the 26th.

Slash

Kristian “Gaahl” Espedal

Recent cover feature for Rhythm magazine with Mat Nicholls from Bring Me The Horizon

Supersonic Blues Machine

Tax the Heat album artwork and promo images for the release the album "Change your position"

Total Guitar magazine commission to shoot Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

I was commissioned by Total Guitar to do a feature on The brothers Justin and Dan Hawkins of the band The Darkness. As always with these shoots I shoot them after sound check and have about 30 mins to capture some exciting images. Justin and Dan made the job easy with Justin having some of the best legs in Rock n Roll.

Classic Rock commissioned shoot with Black Moth that was used as a double page spread in the magazine. I shot this at Gordons Wine Bar in London. 

I was commissioned by Total Guitar to shoot a feature with James Bay  James shot this at the Gibson Rooms in Soho, London. The piece was to coincide with the release of this own signature edition ESP guitar. 

I was commissioned by the BBC to take publicity stills for the BBC One show Sunday Morning Live and its new presenters Sean Fletcher and Emma Barnett.

James was commissioned by Classic Rock magazine to shoot Benjamin Booker for a double page feature with the photograph appearing over a double page in the mag. The first image is the one Classic Rock chose. I've included 3 others from the shoot to check out. 

James was commissioned to shoot Jim Jones and the Righteous Mind for Classic Rock magazine. This first image was used in full on a double page in the magazine.

James was commissioned by Metal Hammer in association with Monster energy drink to shoot a AAA access feature from a single show in Birmingham. Here's a small selection of the images. 

James was commissioned by Kerrang! magazine to do a portraits session with the band Oathbreaker in Brighton during a cold, rainy dark night at the end of January in Brighton.

James was commissioned by Classic Rock magazine to shoot Deaf Havana. The location for the shoot this time was the iconic motorcycle cafe The Ace Cafe

James was recently commissioned by the BBC to take  publicity stills for the BBC2 factual documentary "Life and Death the Pentecostal Way". The doc was aired on the 20th of November as part of #BlackandBritish month. Here's a little info on the documentary directed by Tanya Stephen "With unprecedented access to the workings of a Pentecostal church in London, this one-off documentary in the Black & British season lifts a lid on a faith that is growing fast"  Click here: Life and Death the Pentecostal Way to watch the documentary. 

Deap Vally shot recently for a double page spread in the December issue of Classic Rock magazine.

Here's a clip I was working as cameraman on for BBC Breakfast with Benedict Cumberbatch. Shot on the 24th of October and shown on the 25th of October 

I have a double page spread of one of my portraits with the fantastic artist MadC in the current issue of German National Geographic's Gallerien & Museen. See Mad C's Instagram post below

THE VIRGINMARYS FOR CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE 

A recent commission for a photo shoot with the great band The Virginmarys.  The image was shot in Macclesfield with smoke grenades and was featured in Classic Rock Magazine as a double page spread. 

CAMERA WORK FOR ALARABY.TV 

Here's a clip that I worked on as a Cameraman for Alaraby.tv The interview was conducted with the Tunisian Ambassador Nabil Ammar in the Tunisian Embassy in London 

NEIL YOUNG FOR BBC BREAKFAST AND RADIO 6 MUSIC 

Here are 2 clips I worked on as Cameraman for the BBC. The first one is with Cerys Matthews for BBC Radio 6 Music and the second is with Charlie Stayt for BBC Breakfast

Tax The Heat for Classic Rock Magazine 

A recent shoot for Classic Rock Magazine with Tax The Heat. If you're a fan of Queens of the Stoneage's album Songs for the deaf, definitely check out these guys. This is out now in the current issue of the magazine as a double page spread. We shot this at Gods Own Junkyard in London

Purson for Classic Rock Magazine 

I headed out in search of Gnomes for this shoot for Classic Rock magazine. All the way out to North Devon's famous Gnome Reserve, I bet you're thinking huh?? Gnome Reserve... They've got 3000 of the little critters out there. It's with the band Purson which are psychedelic rock n roll. 

bULLET FOR MY VALENTINE 

Here's a recent commission which involved many aspects which we excel at  (music video creation, social media management, photography). James was recently on tour with Bullet For My Valentine across South America. He was commissioned to direct, shoot, edit and produce the bands latest music video for the song Army of Noise. He was a one man production house filming multiple shows and cutting togeather footage from different shows across different countries in South America to produce one dynamic live performance based music video. While out on tour James was also producing short edits and photographing stills which were used across the bands social media accounts. His 15 years experience as a music photographer enabled him to execute such an intense brief. 

Below is the offical video for Army of Noise delivered to Bullet For My Valentine's Vevo account

MY DYING BRIDE

We worked with 'My Dying Bride' to create a cinematic music video for their latest song 'Feel The Misery'.  Directed by James Sharrock, this video follows the tragic tale of a young woman who drowns after a shipwreck.  Aaron, (lead singer of MDB) plays a hermit who lives in a chapel built into the side of a cliff, discovers her washed up body and carries her back to the Chapel to mourn her death.

street art with google

Earlier in the Year we were commissioned by We Are Social  and worked with head creative Nick Hearne through VNA magazine to work on 2 of Google's "Street Art with Google" features. James travelled to Germany and France to be the photographer as part of the team that produced features on the artists Mad C and Kashink. Great content was produced, new friends made and a great time had. We like to make sure work is always a lot of fun!

Kashink

Below is the video that was produced alongside our photography, directed by Tom Barbor-Might for the project. 

mad c

Below is the video that was produced alongside our photography, directed by Tom Barbor-Might for the project. 

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE 

We spent a week in the studio with the mighty British Metal band 'Bullet For My Valentine'.  We were briefed to create a 3 Part Web Series to document 'The Making of Venom' - the bands latest album.  The videos are being distributed on the bands VEVO channel on YouTube, and across social platforms Facebook and Twitter to promote the upcoming album.  Check out the first instalment here:

Our video brief was to create  short, sharp teaser to build hype and excitement around the release of  Bullet for my Valentine's latest album Venom.  This Teaser kicked off a four part web series we created for the biggest British Metal band in 20 years.  With distribution amongst Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram our aim was to grab the audience immediately and add a little shock factor. 

Within the first 10 minutes of upload we bagged 12,000 views, 1,500 Likes, 300 Shares. 

BEHEMOTH

Our original video feature on Adam 'Nergal' Darski of Polish Metal Band 'Behemoth' takes a deeper look at the transition of Nergal's persona from normality in the dressing room to full character on stage.  Atmosphere was our goal, creating mystery, tension, and a real emotional connection with the audience in this intimate feature. 

RUN THE JEWELS

We teamed up with My Accomplice, VNA Magazine, and Phantoms of Space to create a behind the scenes feature of Run The Jewels' latest music video 'Lie, Cheat, Steal'.

Photos

Check out some stills from our work!