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  • Fern as Prince

    Fern as Prince

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    Alan

    I started a project a couple of years ago considering what would famous 80s guitarist have looked like had they not been men. It wasn’t intended to be a simple gender-switch or putting women or non-binary in a man’s costume, but to explore it further. When thinking of Prince, Fern was the obvious choice; a…

  • Northern Riviera

    Northern Riviera

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    Alan

    I had the idea a few years ago of an editorial shoot, based around the concept of a Northern Riviera, i.e. take the concept of French Riviera imagery and make it more Northern England. I wanted to shoot this in Manchester, Sheffield or Leeds, and Sheffield is where I do most of my studio shoots,…

  • Piano story

    Piano story

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    Alan

    This shoot was put together very last minute. I’d seen that Elle was available for the following day, so reached out to confirm. Because of the timescales involved, this wasn’t a planned shoot with themes and structure or many props, but more about getting to know how each other works and using what we had…

  • Colours

    Colours

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    Alan

    Some neon and pink colours with Layna at Zavod Studio, Sheffield. This was the second half of a two-hour shoot where we’d spent the first hour in more fashion-oriented themes and then took the second hour to explore more colourful imagery

  • Evil Queen

    Evil Queen

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    Alan

    Taking a darker angle on the typical evil queen trope. With Xenia, shot at the Boardroom in Derby.

  • Wedding Fine Art

    Wedding Fine Art

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    Alan

    I’d found a vintage wedding dress and I hadn’t found a model to suit it. Then I heard that Lydia was at Zavod Studio and I thought she’d be ideal. The dress is possibly 1940s; it features pockets and a bolero. The odd thing about the pockets – or at least odd to me not…

  • Show Girls

    Show Girls

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    Alan

    I’ve always thought that idea for anything bespoke starts with the conversation between client and the artist/supplier. So I view imagery as something that needs to be brought into existence, to evolve and be nurtured. So it’s rare that I go to an event where the set has already been designed, the costumes are already…

  • Creative Makeup Again

    Creative Makeup Again

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    Alan

    Another session focussing on creative makeup. Featuring AMKmodel and Fern Lynch-Bowers as MUA. Shot at Zavod Studio, Sheffield

  • Makeshift

    Makeshift

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    Alan

    Creating a dress by hanging and clipping the fabric

  • Fearless

    Fearless

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    Alan

    This was loosely, very loosely, inspired by Netflix’s adaptation of Cowboy Bebop. That set the theme that we then riffed on and went in different directions.