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Who are @Rawfmt?

Last Friday I went to a show of Coventry University’s latest photography graduates, it was called Raw Format and showcased a selection of the work from the final year students. It was being shown at The Strand Gallery in Charing Cross. With a foreword to the exhibition by Jon Levy, these guys mean business. There seemed…

Return of the furries

Next month I’m visiting sunny Wales for a double shoot with Saethwr, he’s the red dragon of Cardiff. Why of course!! And Fangorn, a tiger based near Swansea. I’ve been meaning to photograph Saethwr for quite a while, and I’m pleased that we’re hooking up. His suit is something special, as naturally a red dragon…

At Home With The Furries and The Sunday Times Magazine

The aim of my photo project: At Home With The Furries has been and always will be to make a book and exhibition with the images. About a year ago, at one of the regular furry meets, I was having a catch-up with my furry friends and I spoke to them about getting the series…

Walking With The Christmas Furries

One thing that the furries like to do more than anything is to get out and about, mixing it up with the public. For them, the juice is ‘working the crowd’ as one furry on Saturday confided to me. Every few Saturdays, they’ll meet at a bar in the city and the walk guided by…

At Home With The Furries

This is a photographic project I’ve been working on for a few years.The furries are people that meet up, online and in person and they’ll talk and chat and have fun together. Some of them go on walks around St.Paul’s cathedral and over the Millennium bridge. You’re thinking but so what lots of people do…

A conversation with Neville Elder-Photographer and Film-maker

Neville Elder is a photojournalist and portrait photographer from Somerset. He’s based in New York and counts The Times, Independent, The Guardian and of course Bizarre magazine along his regular clients. Neville started his photographic career shooting for local news in Somerset, graduated to the Nationals and became an Englishman in New York. His portraits…

Santa Muerte by Nadav Neuhaus

This feature on the worshipping of Saint Death, a deity represented by a skeleton which has replaced traditional Catholism in certain shall we say less salubrious parts of Mexico was an assignment by Nadav Neuhaus for Bizarre magazine. It’s one of my favourites and it’s something I’ll be exploring on this blog in the future…

Homer’s Odyssey in Deptford?

I photographed a really fantastic production of The Odyssey, the story of Odysseus( or Ulysseus, depending if you’re coming from a Greek or Roman perspective) It was produced by Teatro Vivo, directed by Sophie Austin and took place on the streets of Deptford, South East London yes really!! Teatro Vivo are a theatre company who…

It’s like buses, you wait for one and then three come along at once! Part 3-Modified

By: Broadbentius February 23, 2012February 23, 2012

Bizarre magazine, Commissions, Photography, Portraits, Uncategorized, WeirdLeave a Comment

Even though I’ve worked on nearly 100 issues of Bizarre , yes count ’em 100 copies; every feature we do is a challenge. It has to be said though that hiring amazing photographers like Nadav Neuhaus, Shaul Schwarz, Neville Elder and Naomi Harris really helps. I recall commissioning Timothy Allen to cover an experience piece:…

Indoors with Jaws

By: Broadbentius February 22, 2012September 11, 2014

Bizarre magazine, Commissions, Photography, Portraits, Uncategorized, WeirdLeave a Comment

I met Jaws and lived to tell the tale. Here you had a seven foot plus modern day giant who is the absolute spitting image of Richard Kiel, the actor who made his name as Jaws in the James Bond movies. Gary Tiplady is officially the world’s number one Jaws lookalike. He is also a…