A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS
What do professional photographers get up to when they’re not behind the camera?
We take a look at the personal side of a photographer’s life as expressed through some of things they value most. In this issue internationally-awarded advertising photographer – and self-confessed football fanatic – Simon Harsent talks about family relationships, prints, books, and a very special letter.
“The picture on the easel is of my beloved Chelsea’s home ground, Stamford Bridge. I took it two days after Chelsea won the Champions League final on Saturday 19 May 2012. The ghosts were laid to rest that day and that’s possibly why I photographed it from West Brompton Cemetery.
“I started to follow Chelsea from when I was five. It’s part of an on-going project called … a book I’m currently putting together with the hope of getting it published. The red covered dummy copy is on the stand to my magazine in New York. What was great was that her relationship was purely with the photographs, not football. It was very difficult for me – being such a football fanatic – to have a different way to edit the pictures. Whereas Rachel came along and put them in pairs, which seemed to work really well. I think the interest will be from an international publisher. This project crosses the boundary between photography as an art form and people who are just interested in photographic books.
