Amateur Photographer

Why I swapped flash for LED

Gillian Anderson

Alan Cumming

Geoffrey Rush

Martin Scorsese

Mark Mann (left) poses with Jack Black

Benedict Cumberbatch

Mark Mann at work in his studio with the Rotolight Anova PRO

New York-based celebrity and advertising photographer and film-maker Mark Mann owes his career to a stranger he met on a train from his childhood home in Glasgow when he was still at school. ‘I was on my way to the Edinburgh Festival and met an older lady – the most beautiful older woman in the world,’ he recalls. ‘She was probably about 18.’ They got talking and it turned out that the girlphotography and see her. True story! Although there was no romance, I did actually see her there and we became friends.’

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