My #whiteoutportrait of handsome architect Nader Gebran (IG = @n_2025_uk) who previously sat for his gritty #Harshbeautiful portrait back in 2018. It was exciting to explore a very different gentler lighting set up and expression this time round.

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My #whiteoutportrait of beautiful Carim Nahaboo - extraordinarily talented illustrator of natural history, specialising in entomology. I loved working on this!

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My #whiteoutportrait of photographer/animator @photomitch (IG) from Palm Springs. He laughed till he cried!

Great stories about his friends Robert Mapplethorpe + Miles Everett. Mitch catalogued Everett’s work for ONE ARCHIVES - the largest LGBT archives worldwide.

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My new #whiteoutportrait of beautiful Carey Davis (IG: @whitebeardnyc) along with his earlier #harshbeautiful + #psychedelicportraits, + casual “smizing” shot. He always brings something special to each shoot!

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Head and shoulders portrait of a striking middle aged man facing the camera directly. He has short hair and a goatee, grey-green eyes and grey-blonde hair. The photo is taken in a high-key style which has bleached out his skin colour to look light beige. He is set against a white background which is bleached out on the left hand side, and light beige on the right so the background sometimes recedes and sometimes comes forward.

Brilliant #whiteoutportrait shoot with @eggsbened.bsky.social - currently writing the biography of Stephen Sondheim. He's a writer, arts critic + broadcaster + was formerly arts editor of The Independent + The Observer.

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@jamesmbarrett.bsky.social and I have known each other a little for literally decades so when, out of the blue, he asked me to sit for his #whiteoutportrait series, I said yes. The day before, I cut my own hair and then got a shade nervous. But I think we can agree he’s a damn fine photographer.