Cover Drive shoot

Monday 20th June

Working with the lovely Mr Alex Babsky again, wahoo! He was asked to do a shoot for the self-described 'carib-pop' band, Cover Drive and needed an assistant. Hailing from Barbados, this band are signed to Geffen Records UK, and hold a publishing deal with Sony music. The bassist, Jamar, at 17, is the youngest member of the band, then there is the drummer T-Ray, lead vocalist Amanda, and Barry on guitar. T-Ray's mother Kerri Armstrong is their manager, and it was his Dad Ray Armstrong who came up with the band's name, through his love of golf. Throughout the whole day their music was blasting out of the I-pod, Amanda couldn't stop singing away to it even when in the make-up chair, and 'mom-a-ger' Kerri was bopping away. It was really cute to see. Amanda has written all the songs on the album, which is due for release some time in July.

http://www.youtube.com/user/WeAreCoverDrive

Amy Studt shoot

Saturday 18th June

Under the new name Mercy, singer, song writer and musician Amy Studt is making a come back into the music industry. Now with 19 Management, she was in need of some fresh images to capture her change in direction and new image. The shoot took place at her friends house in Stoke Newington. The whole team had to squeeze in to the kitchen, which was also where the shoot was going to take place, so as you can imagine we were very short on space! Amy was lovely, so tiny, and looks much younger than her 25 years. She bought her two dogs with her, they made a lovely bed for themselves out of my suitcase! Hopefully, I'm going to be testing with the photographer Paul Archer over the next few weeks. He has been assisting Mario Testino lately, but is about to go at it alone, so watch this space for some new images!

http://www.myspace.com/amystudtofficial

Wella Trend Vision with HOB Camden

16th-19th May, 31st May and 1st June

I went on tour with Akin Konizi and Christel Lundqvist form HOB Camden, as they were asked by Wella to showcase their interpretation of the four Wella trends- Glamazon, Polaris, Passionista and Lumina, at the Wella Trend Vision shows. First stop was Glasgow, followed by Manchester, Kenilworth, and finally London. Many hours were spent on the coach, but luckily we got to fly to Glasgow. It was lovely having a plush hotel room all to myself, I wish I got to spend more time in my bed though, ha! The days were long, up at 6am and dinner was after the show finished at 9:30pm. I had 6 models to do altogether, there was an extra model for Polaris and Glamazon, for a more commercial, customer friendly look.