I have worked with the guys from Starseed a few times now and they need some new promo shots taken for their up coming tour so we met on a proper freezing night at a piss laden tunnel and had a party.

The guys are super nice and know how to rock so make sure to check them out and support them on www.planetstarseed.com

You can check more of the photos and read more about this shoot on my blog at www.londonbandphotography.co.uk/starseed-portraits/

Thanks to my buddy Brendan for filming this for me. I suck at editing and also don’t have the time to work on it for too long so this is my “slap” together of the footage that I have from the time. The quality sucks so excuse me. Haha.

I traveled to South Africa for a few shoots at the end of 2009 and one of them included working with the amazing guys of Zebra and Giraffe. I have worked with these guys a few times since they started their project together and it’s always a pleasure.

The concept was purely to get the guys in the water at my parents vacation house and shoot with them up close to make sure that they look powerful but “cool”. I shot with my Nikon D3, Nikon F90x on 35mm and my beautiful Yashica 124g on 120 film. It’s been an absolute nightmare with the 120 as Jessops sent them away to the Prolab and completely messed up the scans (after 5 weeks) and have now taken them back to rescan so I haven’t got them back yet but the Digital and 35mm are done and came out quite rad.

This video was filmed and edited by their guitarist, Alan Shenton, on his iPhone 3GS which is amazing. Technology really is great.

To see more of the photographs from the shoot, please check out my music photography blog on www.londonbandphotography.co.uk/zebra-and-giraffe-promo/

This week tuesday The South African hit news stands featuring an interview about myself and my work here in London. The South African is a newspaper aimed at Global South Africans living and working in London so it is a privilege for me that they have taken interest in my photography work here. An online version of the article is available to read here and I think it turned out quite nicely.

Then the next exciting bit of news that I have is that this week I took delivery of my new Profoto babies and I am already in love. Haha. The guys from Profoto were really nice to post a short feature about me using their gear on a recent photo shoot that I had with the guys from Zebra and Giraffe while out in South Africa. You can check out the feature on the Profoto blog.

Other than that, I hope everyone is having a good start to the year. Thank you again for all your support and please check back soon for some new work updates. Marcus