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Field Marshal The Lord Houghton of Richmond Portrait Sitting

October 15, 2025 in Field Marshal, Featured Sitting, Military Portrait, Portraiture, Top Moment, Top Clients, Soldiery, Charity, Jottings, London, Los Angeles, New York, Works, Britannia

My first portrait of Lord Houghton was taken in 2014 when he was Chief of the Defence Staff. Over a decade later, photographing him again as Field Marshal felt like closing a chapter — capturing the passage of time, service, and quiet dignity that defines a lifetime of leadership.

Photographing Tony Blair: A Study of Power, Legacy, and Reinvention

October 06, 2025 in Political Portraits, Portraiture, Prime Minister, London, Los Angeles, New York, Top Moment, Top Clients, Featured Sitting

In this newly captured, unreleased portrait of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, I set out to create not a likeness of power, but a meditation on it. Blair, who led Britain from 1997 to 2007, remains a defining and divisive figure—a man whose influence continues to ripple across politics and history.