Charlie Condou

I recently had the pleasure of meeting and shooting British actor Charlie Condou for Attitude Magazine. Charlie is known for playing Renoir in The Impressionists and Marcus Dent in Coronation Street.

Charlie returned to Corrie as Marcus back in March for a gay dad storyline with on screen boyfriend Sean Tully.......

Our shoot was fun and it was lovely to meet Charlie's real life daughter, Georgia Mae.

Dog day again - this week it's Fair In The Square in Highgate

Bring your furry friends along and say hello!

http://www.fairinthesquare.co.uk/

Harry Treadaway - You magazine

Here is the tearsheet from my shoot with Harry Treadaway.....check Harry out in new BBC drama, 'The Night Watch' based on the novel by Sarah Waters......

RUDI

Here is Rudi, Arthur's son....

Arthur

Here is Arthur, who I photographed in Bolton earlier this year. Arthur never usually lets anyone take his photograph so I was very privileged and honoured that he sat for me.

I love the shots we got. He was only in front of my lens for half an hour, yet he gave me so much.

I shot Arthur's son too, pictures to follow......

Yak

I have been shooting lots of personal work of late and this is an edit from one of my recent portrait sessions.

My old friend Yak has been undergoing treatment for throat cancer. I shot him a few weeks after his operation to remove the cancer.
He has since been through chemo and radiation therapy which ended with the all clear in April.

Yak has been in front of my camera lens many times (I always used to be with camera - Nan Goldin stylee - when I was younger) but I hadn't seen him for years before this session.
Our lives went in separate directions but we were very close during my late teenage years and early 20's and I'll always hold his friendship close to my heart.

HARRY TREADAWAY

Harry Treadaway is a young up and coming British actor and I had the pleasure of shooting him recently.
He is currently filming an interesting sounding horror film around London and we grabbed him for half an hour during his lunch break......here are the out-takes.......

Ruby Wax out - takes

Finally getting around to going through some of my back catalogue again.....and here are some out-takes from my shoot at Julie's restaurant with the lovely Ruby Wax........

Lets Face It 7 Awards - The book

LPA Portraiture Awards 2011 by London Photographic Association | Make Your Own Book

Private View LPA 'Lets Face It' 7 Awards

Here are some photos from the private view. One shot from my Bronze winning series was exhibited while the others rotated as part of a slide show on the screen photographed below. It was a great night, not least because after the exhibition I went to see Kylie perform at the O2 which was a great way to celebrate!

New work/ Expatriates!

I have been very busy of late producing new work, winning awards, retouching and putting images into syndication. Anyway, more about that later....

For now, here is a recent and ongoing personal project looking at the sub-culture of expatriates. The following portraits were all shot in Singapore but my intention is to take this project to other countries in which there is a large expat population.

This project will be imminently posted on my website and here is the blurb i am midway through drafting:

EXPATRIATE

“An expatriate (or expat) is a person residing in a country and culture other than that of the person’s upbringing or legal residence.

Globalisation has created an international market for skilled professionals. Private motivation is
becoming more relevant than company assignment.”

“Traditional corporate expatriates did not integrate and commonly only associated with the
elite of the country they were living in. Modern expats form a global middle class with shared work experiences in multi- national corporation. Integration is incomplete but strong cultural
influences are transmitted.” (citation: wikipedia)

Alex became interested in the expat culture after numerous visits to Singapore.
To Alex the lifestyle of the expat seems like a stand-alone culture; many expats don’t appear to fully integrate into local society (raising the question of whether is is ever possible to fully assimilate into another, very different culture, leaving behind ingrained socialisation?)
Subsequently a culture is created to meet the lifestyle needs of the expatriate, incorporating cultural aspects of their homeland into the new environment and combining this with local lifestyle.

Through portraiture, Alex explores the nature of expatriates.

This is an ongoing project....

LPA 'Lets Face It' 7 Awards

I have some great news and that is that I have won a photographic award with the London Photographic Association!

I won bronze for my 'Untitled' series entered into the 'Lets Face It' 7 portraiture awards. The series will feature in the LPA winner's book and the image shown below will be exhibited at The Assembly Rooms in central London. It will be up until the 29th April so do pop in if you can.

Here is a link to my profile on the London Photographic Association's website:
http://www.london-photographic-association.com/Alex_Grace

Out-takes: Andy Butler from Hercules & Love Affair

So here are a couple of out- takes from the Andy Butler shoot to tantalise your taste-buds!
I have been so busy of late, I haven't been going through old shoots but this is a start to sifting through the backlog........Enjoy!!

The Oxfam Curiosity Shop 2011

The Oxfam curiosity pop up shop opens today at Selfridges.
Get down there and grab yourself a bargain.
Tons of celebs have donated outfits and I shot the stills campaign.
Below is the promotional video and the stills