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Poor Marco, feeling very neglected.

Your stories about your photo shoots are fantastic. You are a great storyteller and I look forward to each new video that comes out.

Graham coxon video is needed !

I want to buy a print or two out on the street. Some of the absolute best pics of Shane. Captured his spirit really well. How can I buy a print? Shane gave me the magazine of which he was on the cover.

Hi Fred and Harry. These are wonderful pictures about people, always preferable to pictures of people. Simple as that, however, not so simple to do. A good day for cake, fellas. Laters...

I hope you brought up the Kylie Minogue shoot!

Lovely story - thanks for sharing

Hah fantastic. I would have done the same, talk about cinema all the time and shoot half a roll in between ;))

Saw her live a few days ago. She seems nice and kind despite what people assumed of her. Is she?

Wonderful story! Loved every minute!

Brilliant storytelling and images and insight! Thanks!

Great stories, as are all your stories…. My wife reckons you only have one shirt? 😂 Keep the stories coming…. C.

Really interesting video. Thank you.

Great story! And lol that Imacon should be worth a *wee bit more* than £25!

What a fascinating and captivating story. I could listen to you for hours. Thank you.

On the more of a pragmatic note this time... and it is pure gold... showing bits of the uglier side of any art, honestly... thanks guys!

All very interesting and the usage / payment / contract etc is a bit of a minefield especially deciding how much payment and how the images will be used. I've had to negotiate fees and contract / usage and it leaves you in a spot of not wanting to lose the prestige of the published work but also be treated fairly. I liked the more reflective Bob looking out the window but I suspect he prefers to maintain the upbeat joker image. Another thing is the images being altered / cut-out / tinted etc is this generally tolerated with submitted images.

Comedy legends! Great story. Thank you.

05:33 I think the ladder has extra resonance as we can read it as a stand in for Vic Reeves.

Lovely! Great picture (a book I have), and good advice about usage. You did well to get any extra payment out of the publisher. I was wondering if, when selling an image for a book cover or album cover if you can arrange a speculative contract based on sales - the equivalent of a royalty payment - that would counter any need to chance your arm (in this case successfully) by retroactively going back to the client for more dosh? Also, did you get a picture credit when they published the paperback or on subsequent reprints?

Holy cow, they paid the extra 2k? I'm really surprised they didn't just tell you to get lost. Is it not something you would stipulate a % and a named credit in or am I being hopelessly naïve to think so?

Brilliant video, thanks for giving so much detail Harry.

Not being credited for an image is absolutely outrageous !!

Great story, Harry. There’s nothing worse than not getting a photo credit in print. It happens to me so frequently but like you said, sometimes it not worth being at war with the world. I just wish the industry would have a little more respect and consideration for us Photographers.

Brilliant, thank you

Gone Fishing probably saved a lot of people's sanity with its kind-hearted banter. I started as a photographer but retrained as a lawyer. I approve of the way you handled the fee for the book cover. Being reasonable beats litigation every time; that's why they paid you extra. If you had sued them, they would have refused and you would have had three years of grief with your solicitors.

Hi Harry and Fred (as it will be from now on and should always of been). When you spoke about the lighting creating a sinister effect on Mogg. I couldn't help thinking of, Arnold Newman's, portrait of, Alfred Krupp, in a factory doing the same, although he did it deliberately after initially refusing the assignment. Are there or have there been people you wouldn't photograph (no names needed) for moral or ethical reasons? Have a good start to the week.

Of course a scanned negative or slide film picture is just a digital picture. And on any digital picture you can change any pixel. But: To edit a picture taken with a digital camera so is it 100% like taken on film is not only extremely time consuming, it is next to impossible. And therefore it is not only neither cheaper nor time efficient to mimick a film look with digital -- you simply don't get the same results. Even Fujifilm, who should know their film stock best, cannot really manage to give us the look of their silde films in their digital camaeras. But on the other hand people seem to have gotten used to the clinical, sterile look of digital pictures. Therefore film photography will always be something special, like a real piano over a digital one.

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so is graham not blind? he wears glasses for looks?? also great interview love knowing the contexts of these photoshoots

We do indeed like this video! More, please!

640T slide film ... T_T wish we still had something like that

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Hi Harry. When I first saw that picture of, Lenny Kravitz, I didn't even notice the boat. I immediately thought of the picture 'Emerging Man, Harlem' shot by, Gordon Parks, in the fifties. I thought you had used it as a reference. It is good to finally find out that you had, Sally Mann, in mind. Laters.

Hi Harry. I am glad you spoke about, Brian Griffin, as the pictures he too shot for Management Today were wonderful. And, like you, he was an outsider who came to London which gives photographers and other creators a certain mindset, determination, and belief in themselves. If I could have only one photography book it would be the 'The Polaroids' by Andre Kertesz that he shot on a SX70. What would yours be? Have a good weekend.

Don't tell me there's another person in this world like trump!!! Nice video, though!

Thanks for sharing your personal space. Great dynamic you two have. Was Stuart Pilkington an Architect as well as a photographer?

Very interesting. And yes - guitarists ARE the coolest. Someone needed to put it out there, thanks 😜

Hi Harry. The picture you took of, Sophie Okondeo, blue top against a grey background with an injured hand. Would make a make a wonderful diptych next to the picture of you, in a blue top against a grey background with an injured leg, we saw saw in this video. Your idea is a good conduit for people to talk about their images or others images they have in their home. Do you remember the series about people and their home decor called 'Signs of the Times' and people and cars, 'A to B, Tales of Modern Motoring' made by Nicholas Barker and Martin Parr. I was reminded of both when I saw the photo you had of Parr's. Laters

liked the colour images with burnt paint backdrop. Funnily enough it was one of the things our college tutor, who worked with Harry in IPG, mentioned-his uncanny ability to find great backdrops. I always liked the b+w Blur image with the pole dividing it. Much harder to manage group dynamics than with an individual. Has Harry ever had a shoot where a celeb walked off after two frames or something, or maybe refused completely to be photographed? Keep em comin' as always, cheers from Ireland.

No photo says ‘difficult to work with’ more than the ‘failed’ pool table, group shot with Damon out of frame!

Another really interesting video. Ta.

Plymouth College of Art? Certainly have fond memories of that establishment.

Hi Harry. As I catch up with your videos I see you are showing contact sheets which I adore. The last picture, with her blue jacket against the grey of the concrete, as she looks at her hand is sublime. "tape those cables down coz the yanks will spot them from a mile away" was the mantra when I was an assistant on location :-) at least the bulb didn't blow out in her face. Have a good week.

13:59 what would blur look like if they were black or Chinese 😂

Give us that Video on Graham!

You'll likely have seen that Colin has a photo book out soon.

This is a lovely video. Please keep them coming 🙏

Please a Graham video!!

The Nikon SLR shots are amazing. Please speak more about the set up