Posts from in and around London
Well, Stand and Bang Final was Kyle Greaves swansong at the Woking HG wells centre at the start of 2016. Kyle is looking for a larger more suited venue for his excellent kickboxing and muay thai event. Stand and Bang is an awesome event. Although a lot of the fighters that Kyle puts on are [...]
I was going to write a post about the Warrior Fight Series event, but I always do that so I thought that I'd write about the weigh ins instead as I really enjoyed the shoot, so I hope you will keep visiting my blog after you see this. Previous weigh ins have been held at the [...]
Warrior Fight Series 4 took place at London's York Hall last weekend, a stacked card with two mouthwatering main event bouts that were expected to bring fireworks. Jack Hermansson vs. Karlos Vemola were set to battle it out for the Warrior Fight Series Middleweight Championship with Jefferson George defending his title against Brad Wheeler. Harry [...]
This weekend we're all set for the long awaited matchup between two of London's most well known fighters, Alex Montagnani vs Nathan Jones - BAMMA 15 at London's Copper Box Arena. Both fighters have held belts at Fury in the last twelve months and both are well liked on the London scene, this is a fight [...]
UFC Fight Night Gustafsson vs. Manuwa fight day was upon us yesterday and to say I was excited was an understatement. Ive never been to an arena of the sixe of the O2 for any event let alone for a fight night so i was expecting good things. Once checked in I casually took a look [...]
After the last three days of hard graft its time for the main event - UFC Fight Night London - Gustafsson vs. Manuwa at O2 Arena. This will be the biggest MMA event that the UK has seen, the O2 sold out 16,000 tickets some time ago such is the demand. The event will be [...]
First post of the year for me and its a good one. I've been suffering from camera withdrawal symptoms over the last few weeks so was glad to get the call from MMAPlus to invite me to Gymbox for a quick lunchtime shoot for the Manuwa vs. Gustafsson fight at UFC Fight Night London on [...]
Another superb gig from The Wedding Present. The band performed Hit Parade in its entirety. The set started with a few favorites, after third song Kennedy I could have left just then happy! David Gedge was on form as ever and despite twenty years of playing still showed as much vigor as I witnessed when [...]
Back to where it all started a few weekends ago. Colin Nwadike at New Wave Academy, my local MMA club invited me back to take some more fighter pictured for the website and for any events that are coming up. It was great to see some of the same faces again and to see how [...]
This weekend as there was a lack of big events in the area I asked the guys at Combat Company Richmond if I could come and shoot for them. I've previously done some portraits for them so thought that this might be a bit of fun and a chance to see some of the more regular club members. The event was [...]
Last night I shot The Wonder Stuff at Islington Academy. To cut to the chase, the gig was great. First up was Erica's band EN, not being familiar with her new album I was pleasantly surprised, fun quirky and very rock influenced, just look at Erica, it's what you'd expect isn't it. I've seen Erica [...]
I was lucky to be invited to take photos for MMAPlus at Glory 5 this weekend. This was the biggest kickboxing event that the ?UK has ever seen so I was pretty stoked about the opportunity to say the least. After a few hassles getting in and getting the press seats sorted out we were treated to an awesome night of action from some [...]
Through the random nature of the internet I came across this location The Asylum. It's a chapel in a converted almshouse complex fairly near to where I live. The name is somewhat misleading as I don't believe that the location was ever an actual 'asylum' for the insane. I shan't repeat the history from the owners website, everything you need to know about [...]
Another week another awesome gig. This time my all time favorite band The Wonder Stuff were headlining at The Empire. Supporting The Wonder Stuff were Pop Will Eat Itself and Jesus Jones, more favorites from back in the day. The tour has been aptly named Sleigh The due due to it being near Christmas, and what [...]
This evening I went to CUD and One Eyed Wayne at Water Rats near Kings Cross. I've never been to the venue before but heard plenty about it in the past and I'm pretty sure that several big names have played there in one guise or another over the years. OEW were great providing a [...]
I was extremely lucky to spot the most excellent Delphic on tour at Electrowerkx in London and equally lucky to snare a photo pass for the gig. I'd seen Delphic some time ago, maybe 2oo8 supporting Orbital at Brixton Academy and kept my eye on them since. The first album, Acolyte is superb and should [...]
A little late on getting this weeks entry up. I had a mad Saturday and Sunday - UCMMA 31 on Saturday and Fight Scene 5 on Sunday. Minimal sleep and lots of work. Over the two events I shot around 2,500 images. UCMMA 31 was awesome as expected. Great fights and superb matching ensuring that the punters [...]
I'm lucky enough to be shooting UCMMA 31 again this weekend. Part of the deal is that I go to the press conference prior to the main event. Its a really fun part of the build up and good to see all of the guys facing off to each other. Its also a bit different photographically as [...]
Lat night I went to see The Wedding Present at Koko in Camden Town and was again lucky enough to be able to take my camera. It's not often that I moved to tears at a gig, there are a couple of regulars that do this, Mission Drive by The Wonder Stuff, a couple of [...]
I shot Carter USM this weekend at Brixton Academy, It's a venue I have been going to for over twenty years and must have seen over 50 bands there. I have never however been the right side of the barriers with my camera. The was quite some gig for me. Carter USM were supported by Ned's Atomic [...]
My friend Danielle West of Team Underground MMA and New Wave Academy asked me if I would be able to take some more shots of her for a fight that she may be doing in Asia for her sponsors I'd had a day off on Thursday and suggested that it would be a good idea to fit her [...]
I was lucky enough to be asked to shoot John Hathaway and some of the other fighters London Fightshooters this week. This is the first time I have shot someone in the UFC and I have to say John was an absolute pleasure to work with.He's currently 17 -1 which is a pretty impressive record! [...]
I was once again lucky enough to able to shoot some MMA, this time UCMMA 30 at London's Troxy. This was by far the biggest and best production I have been to and it was televised on SKY sports live. The fights were all fantastic, fighters totally up for it. After seeing this standard of fight it [...]
I recently met Laura Clark through a job on the local magazine where I was asked to shoot her apartment - its slightly unusual. Soon after Laura asked me if I would be up for taking some portraits at New Wave Academy where she practices MMA. As a result of this she asked if I [...]
This weekend I was invited to shoot Fury MMA at Proud O2 in London. Having not shot at or even attended an event like this before I was a little nervous and unsure of how to approach the shoot along with not knowing 'the score' for such a thing. After a bit of waiting around [...]
I took a trip to the underpass last night, its still very securly locked up, however I have no doubt that there is a way in somehow. There's currently a campaign underway locally to see if the location can be used for some sort of community space, gallery or bar. Either fo these would be [...]
This weekend I was lucky enough to be asked to shoot Juan Carlos Santana for Fighting Fit Magazine. I received a call in the week out of the blue to go and do a shoot of J.C. performing some exercises with a resistance band for a series of instructional pictorial features in FFMag. Although I [...]
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Here's the super-slick kitchen at the WixonGibbs home. All the fittings are top class along with the finish. This room would be unrecognisable from twelve months ago. all the walls have been removed and replaced with a large airy open plan kitchen and living area.
My friend Jeremy asked me to come and shoot a few images at a project his wife had been working on for some time. She's an ace interior designer. This is one of the first places that she has worked on in a minimalist fashion. The images that I'm going to put up really don't [...]
