CCD Dance in Sidney Sussex Chapel

I’ve photographed many, many wonderful performances by Cambridge Contemporary Dance, the most impressive being a gala performance and publicity shoot for Light Matter, in Cambridge University’s Senate House. The dance company was asked to perform in Sidney Sussex’s chapel for Coty Prestige’s conference, as part of the post-prandial evening entertainment, and as always, they asked me to come and photograph it. Needless to say, the six dancers’ performances were as beautiful as ever, even one that was entirely improvised!

The altarpiece is by Venetian painter Pittoni, and features the blue and red gowns often found in his paintings.

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Cambridge Dancers’ Club Flyer

Following on from the photoshoot to acquire new publicity material from the Cambridge Dancers’ Club, here are my final designs for the A5 flyer which will be sent to 15,000 members of Cambridge University at the start of the forthcoming academic year.

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Cambridge Dancers’ Club

One of the reasons that I photograph a lot of dance, is that I’m also passionate about dancing myself. Thanks to the breadth of opportunity and classes available in Cambridge, I’ve worked my way through Ballroom, Latin, Offbeat, Salsa, Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll, and Contemporary dance. Most of these styles are offered by Cambridge Dancers’ Club (CDC), which was, up until recently, the largest student society in Cambridge. They’re in the process of doing a large publicity drive to bring lots of new members to classes, which in turn feeds new members to the Cambridge University Dancesport Team, one of the most successful student dancesport teams in the country. While I was on the Cambridge University Rock’n’Roll Team, I created lots of publicity material for RnR classes and the CURnR Team, so CDC have commissioned me to create the new publicity material for this year. Having started on my Cambridge Ballerina Project this summer, I had the idea of a photoshoot in one of the most impressive locations in Cambridge (New Court, St. John’s), with 3-4 couples, representing each of the styles offered.

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Cambridge University Dancesport Team
One of 4 related photos, focusing on each couple in turn

Salsa Dancers, Cambridge University
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Cambridge University Ballroom Dancers
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Cambridge University Ballroom Dancers

Ballroom Gentlemen
Ballroom Gents. So suave.

Model Portfolio Shoot for Emily

After the Derelict Fashion photoshoot, Emily has become interested in modelling, and was asked by an agency to put together a portfolio. As she trusted and knew me already, she asked if I could help her come up with more photos for her portfolio, in addition to the great fashion shots from the recent derelict shoot. Being short on time, clothing choices, and suitable locations, these are what we came up with.

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Model Portfolio
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Model Portfolio
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Commercial

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Catalogue

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Black & White Headshot

Murray Edwards Garden Party

I’ve been commissioned by New Hall to take publicity photographs for their prospectus several times in the past, including last year’s garden party. They have since acquired a benefactor, and are in the process of renaming themselves to Murray Edwards College.

This year’s Garden Party theme was based on Alice in Wonderland’s Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, with several guests going to great lengths to wear appropriate costumes. Here are some of the photographs the college selected for their forthcoming prospectus.

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CUJS Garden Party

As in previous years, I was commissioned to take the end of year society photos for the Cambridge University Jewish Society, at their annual garden party.

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John Nations, Juggler
Highly entertaining and talented juggler, John Nations

Emmanuel MCR Dinner

As is becoming more common, Cambridge societies and teams are turning away from the established and expensive photo studios in Cambridge (such as JET and Lafayette), and using freelance photographers to take their formal group photographs. The MCR of Emmanuel College hosted a black-tie dinner, preceded by MCR committee photographs, and a photograph of all graduate students.

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After the black-tie dinner, everyone retired to the Old Library for an evening of Salsa dancing.

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Drowned World

A friend wanted to get some photos of her floating in the water, apparently dead or drowned. Morbid, but interesting and unusual enough to try out.

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Ophelia

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