Philippines Shoot Update

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Marcos Batton, Ifugao Priest of Banaue, the last of the five who conducted the famous Carabao sacrifice in the very real ritual filmed for Coppola's classic Apocalypse Now.

Banaue's legendary 3-time-champion fighting cockerel takes refuge under his umbrella while staring out unsuspecting English photographers.

I finally managed to add the images from the recent OneLife shoot to the New Work section on my site, as well as a whole new Philippines gallery containing a further 30+ shots from the trip. From Jeepneys to Surf Dudes, Fighting Cocks to Grandpa's old bones... the trip to Philippines was definitely an eye opener.

OneLife Magazine - The Film Issue

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In January this year I managed to bag another fantastic assignment, shooting in the Philippines for Land Rover's OneLife Magazine which goes out to Land Rover owners worldwide.

This time we went to revisit the locations used in perhaps THE most iconic film of the 20th Century, Apocalypse Now.

The trip was awesome. We met some incredible people there, some of which were involved in the production of the movie and also we discovered the changes the movie made to the lives of the locals in Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines.

So another big thank you to Christa Larwood and Dan Delaney from Redwood Publishing plus a long overdue nod of gratitude to my friend and digi tech Andrew Howe for his brilliance and legendary powers of ingenuity.

OneLife - The Film Issue is out now and I'll be posting more images from the trip onto my new site very soon.

New Website and ReBrand

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My new website is now officially up and running with over 180 massive images and a smooth scaleable and minimal interface. I'm really, really pleased with it so a big thank you goes out to Stephen Birchmore for doing a great job of making it all work and to Simon Lunt for his valuable help in creating the fresh new Morgan Silk branding to go with the site. I think it's all looking great .... Cheers lads!

South Africa - Volvo LIV Magazine

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Oscar Pistorius, triple gold medallist relaxes at home with Enzo.

The Play Soccer charity helps kids in the Townships to train for a better life.

I love South Africa... it's an amazing place. So when I was asked to go there to shoot for Volvo LIV Magazine I jumped at it. We covered the drive from Joburg to Durban with the Volvo S40 T5 Sport, meeting loads of wonderful sports-mad people along the way. Here are a couple of images from the 1.09 issue...

AOP Awards 2009

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Looks like it's that time of year again. It feels like the AOP Photographers Awards comes round quicker each year... but that's probably something to do with my age and the ever increasing number of hours spent in front of a computer.

Well I managed to squeeze another series into this year's Awards... this time in the Commissioned Life Category. The Mongolian Army going at it full bore is truly a spectacle I won't forget in a hurry either... so I'm chuffed to get these in. Watch this space and fingers crossed for the big night on April 7th.

For sneak peek at the shortlisted entries visit the new AOP Awards site here

And may the best shots win!

ppaper

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My work was recently featured in the gallery section of PPAPER Magazine.

PPAPER is a bi-weekly art publication from Taiwan and looks pretty interesting.

Unfortunately I'm unable to read Taiwanese and so can't shed any light on what the article says... but for those who can, I hope it's a good read!

Harley Davidson gets noticed!

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I only recently discovered that the Harley Davidson Campaign I shot in Minneapolis for Carmichael Lynch managed to bag a few accolades in the US.... Graphis Advertising Annual and Communication Arts Annual both featured the series which also won a Silver in Minnesota’s Advertising Federation’s Annual Show. Shot in Minneapolis and retouched by yours truly with a big helping hand from Saddington & Baynes to transform the copy into realistic chrome parts in CGI. So I think it's customary to give big shout out to Art Buyer Andrea Mariash , Art Director Bill Lee and a huge thanks to Sally Mars for being so fantastic and who's production skills really know no bounds... Cheers and well done everyone!

Keeping it Real...

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Well I thought I'd kick off this blog malarkey with one of my favourite images from the amazing trip to Mongolia last August while on assignment for Onelife Magazine.

On the last day of the journey we stopped off around 50km north of Ulaan Baatar to shoot the newly erected gargantuan as part of the story. The stainless steel statue of the greatly revered Chinggis Khaan is at least 40m tall and is so magnificent that on more than one occasion this image has been mistaken for a fake.

Well there's no CGI trickery with this one... just a straight shot of a bloody great statue in the middle of nowhere. Sweet.