Well this week I am super pleased to have shots in two articles of this month’s edition of Sugar mag. One reports international teenage contortionist Cristina’s story of non traditional schooling and instead doing lots of crazy bending and shooting of bows and arrows from her feet, as you do! The other is a gritty real life report of the teen lads group here in Newcastle which led to work previously posted for Barnardo’s, all interesting stuff!
Having recently worked along side Barnardoâs on a Sugar shoot, they asked me to support them with imagery for a teenage pregnancy progression leaflet. Â Having previously captured the dads, I visited the mums support group in Byker which offered a brilliant opportunity for a range of positive messaged portraits.
Thanks to all those cooperative mums who helped contribute to a fantastic set of shots!
I have recently been commissioned by Sugar magazine in London to cover stories in the northern region. The magazine is targeted at teenage girls and covers a broad range of real life stories. I have covered teen bully victims, teen dads and a teen contortionist who ran away with the circus. The commissions are fantastic as they are real adventures into unknown worlds.
This one was a little sad as the subject Beth, had been seriously bullied on Facebook with a group of 150 people from her school joining a hate group and sending death threats. I hoped the shoot would be a little bit of respite and fun for her, and in turn, raise awareness of the horrors of bullying.
Teen dads and circus girl will be up once Sugar release them…
This shoot was only two weeks ago so you can imagine how cold this little birdy was! Sky’s beautiful tattoo was to be captured in a set of revealing images and despite the sub zero temperatures I suggested that we use a natural habitat backdrop for the peacock and its feathers.
So Sky came armed with leaves and with peacock blue eyes. My extremely elderly neighbourhood didn’t quite know what had hit it as I photographed a firey haired, NUDE lady in my back garden!
Sky has been life modelling for years so she’s not a shy bairn. But the real reason for the shots was to capture her tattoo which symbolises her passion for poetry and celebrates her fantastic success of ‘The Word Bird’ poetry business offering poetry workshops and performances in the region.
You may need a poet, even though you don’t know it, so to find out more visit www.the-word-bird.com.
Now with the crazy amounts of snow we are having, these autumnal scenes seem like a whole season away. Lucy wanted some keep sake photography of her nieces and these were captured in a quick hour starting at the house with Charlie the Siamese and then into the park for some compositions bursting with colour!