The lifestyle is your lifestyle, the story of you being yourselves, captured forever in a combination of documentary and portraiture styling.
Every photographer has their own approach to lifestyle photography. Some prefer arranging people all akimbo, like they’ve fallen out of an aeroplane and landed in a heap, which is cool, if that’s your thing.
I like to take a relaxed approach, just strolling and talking as we explore our chosen spot. This helps the family’s interactions blend naturally with the surroundings, which produces a more natural, authentic result.
Open an old photograph album, one you kept as a kid, or of a wedding from years ago and be swept away emotionally.
The pictures come to life, like miniature movies, reminding you of that person and that day exactly as it was. That’s the power of photography.
What you Get
My most challenging assignment was shooting the operations and personnel of a vast, open-cast gold mine high up in the jungle highlands of Papua New Guinea. Four days in-country from 07:30 – 18:00 carrying 9KG of kit. It rained biblically when it wasn’t scorching hot. The pictures were published in Asia Outlook, an international investor guide to the mining, oil and gas sector.
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