Location shoot with the musician Polina

The biggest pleasure for me is working with talents. A collaboration between energies for the co-creation of something beautiful, meaningful and honest is something I always look for a a creative.

This is Polina Antonova - an incredible voice, musician and woman. She is based in Varna, Bulgaria, but her voice will take you around the glove in an elegant effortlessness. The tenderness of her soul vibrates bright and clear through her personal work, and her exclusive weekly Spotify playlist just wrap everything up in a bundle of flavour.

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We shot on location in a warm summer night. The green wall behind her is 100% real - one of my favourite locations in the city, which I always keep in my sleeve as an option. I wanted to compliment her outfit with a high contrast background. Something vivid and majestic but at the same time natural and organic.

On the way to our location I saw a great, old door that caught my attention. I had to take a few frames to experiment with the look of the shoot. Turned out to be another great contrast complimenting the vision.

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More about Polina you could find on her Facebook page or simply follow her on Instagram @p.juniee.

Make sure you have a listen to her music on Soundcloud

And to finish the experience - tune in every week to her Spotify playlist Vibe With Me and let it takes you away…

Many thanks to my assistant Rosie from Ro Pro Studio, with who I often work on locations and without whom this would have become a very different type of photoshoot.

Published in Paul Wright's new book

I'm very happy to share with you my new publication. I've been working with Paul Wright on his new book  "Paul Wright: Fifteen Years" published by Thompson Gallery. This is a work of celebration and a reflection of his work with the gallery for nearly two decades.

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The work of Paul Wright has a special meaning to me. I was introduced to it at university as part of our curriculum and something in me shifted. It was the first body of work, after I moved to the UK, that pulled me like a magnet in such an incredible way. The vivd movement of colourful brush strokes in his portraits, connecting the viewer through the eyes of the subjects is the sting then pulls me every single time.

It has been an honour and a beautiful learning experience for me to work with Paul since 2013. Moreover, working with him on his book was a dream come true.

The exhibition along with the book include new, old and unseen pieces of Paul's archive and it will be on from 9th to 25th of June 2016.