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Category: Editorial

A Tale of Two Covers

This is a behind-the-scenes tale of two assignments. Shot for different clients at different times, both were corporate portrait commissions for magazine covers; both subjects were men at the top of their game.

Subject number one was Mikael Krafft, founder of Star Clippers cruise company. Private Banking Magazine has asked me to take the portrait aboard his private yacht. The second shoot, for Marketing Magazine, was for a feature on the CMO of Mars, Bruce McColl, who’d won the coveted Advertiser of the Year award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Marseille? Done.

For a travel guide to short breaks in cities across the world, the New York Times sent me on assignment to Marseille recently. I was to photograph a selection of places that would give a good idea of what France’s second largest city is all about.

I followed in the footsteps of the journalist, Seth. He had come to the South of France a few weeks before and written what was effectively the ‘to do list’ for the photographer. Driving down from Nice one morning, I had 24 hours to photograph two beaches and a swimming pool, three restaurants, two bars, a hotel, two shopping districts, a spa and a boat cruise.

A Monégasque Welcome

Helicopter and superyacht activity reached a peak in Monaco last week. International media attention was heavily focused on the principality’s upcoming royal wedding. However, despite much event-related promotion of Monaco as a desirable South of France tourist destination, the principality, known for a heavy-handed approach to photographers, did not make life easy for those who were sent by agencies and publications across the world to capture images of the Monaco royal wedding, and Prince Albert and Charlene’s jet-set guests.