Amateur Photographer

Robbie Williams

Source:   Harry shot about10 frames of Robbie on the Underground, having shaken off his entourage  


In a shoot for music magazine


Select

, Harry captured Robbie jumping around manically


In early 1997, Robbie Williams was at a difficult stage in his career, and it wasn’t easy to predict what would happen next. Aged 23, he had left the band Take That the previous year but had yet to release his first solo album. When I was commissioned by music magazine Select to photograph him in March 1997, he was quite chubby and seemed a little lost.

The magazine had booked a studio in Clerkenwell,

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