CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHER CHRIS FLOYD SHARES BEHIND-THE-SCENES STORIES OF SOME OF HIS MOST STRIKING IMAGES
Chris Floyd would have been a loner if he hadn’t become a photographer.
“Portraiture is a way for me to make contact with other humans. I’m an introvert, not particularly sociable, quite shy and don’t really know what to say to people when I meet them socially,” he says. “But when I have a camera in my hand, I have an alter ego of someone much bolder and more obnoxious… It’s the person I have to become to do the job.”
That job has seen him work with some of the biggest celebrities over the past 30 years, from Sir Paul McCartney to David Bowie, Sir David Attenborough and Cate Blanchett.
Last year, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge commissioned him to take the official photos to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary.
“I was incredibly nervous, but they made me feel so comfortable,” he says. “They were genuinely lovely and wanted me to be happy that I had enough time. Quite often when you photograph celebs, actors
