London's Finest Actors' Headshot Photographer — Four Sittings, and a Word About November

September 29, 2026 in Actors Headshots, London Dates, London, London Jottings

People sometimes ask me why an actor should sit for a headshot with a portrait photographer rather than a headshot photographer. It is a fair question, and the honest answer is that the distinction shouldn't exist. A headshot is a portrait — it is simply a portrait with a job to do. It has to walk into a casting director's inbox at nine in the morning, sit alongside three hundred others, and make somebody stop scrolling. That is not achieved with a white seamless and a ring light. It is achieved by looking properly at a face, understanding what it does, and lighting it the way the old masters lit theirs: with intent.

A Week at Bleeding Heart Yard: London, 21st–27th July

June 28, 2026 in Dates & Locations, London Dates

I am back in London for one week this July, the 21st through the 27th, and the studio at Bleeding Heart Yard will be open for the duration.

There is a particular pleasure in photographing in London that I never quite shake. The light here behaves differently — softer, more conspiratorial, forever threatening rain. It suits the way I work. I have spent the better part of my career chasing the kind of light the Old Masters understood instinctively: a single source, a deep and forgiving shadow, a face emerging from near-darkness as though it had decided, of its own accord, to be seen. Caravaggio knew the trick of it. So did Rembrandt. The shadow is not the absence of the subject; it is the thing that gives the subject weight.

London Sittings 22nd - 25th June 2026

May 25, 2026 in Dates & Locations, London Dates

A brief return to Londonr a small number of private sittings — actor headshots, executive portraiture, and editorial commissions — held at the Farringdon studio. Four days only.