Leeds Guide cover shoot // The Sunshine Underground • By Barnaby Aldrick
The first shoot on this week’s Leeds Guide brief was a cover shoot with the up-and-coming Leeds band The Sunshine Underground. They’re one of the headliners for the upcoming Live at Leeds festival on May Bank Holiday weekend (30th April>3rd May 2010) and a lot of the next Leeds Guide’s will be promoting the fest. […]
Tasty food, tasty processing // Food Photography by Barnaby Aldrick
Another food shoot I did recently was with Dine Catering Services. They asked me down in association with the Leeds Guide to pap a bit of their food. What appears here to be a little cherry tom is actually a baby toffee apple. Cheeky. A swanky hazlenut crusted yorkshire goats cheese with matchstick apple & […]
Getting High in Leeds // Sky Plaza Student Flats • by Barnaby Aldrick
My student halls, ‘Broadgate Park‘ at the University of Nottingham were like a young offenders institute (in some blocks for more than aesthetic reasons); with ship-like safetyglass door, frigid bare-brick stairwells bursting with unloved bikes and asymmetrical lino kitchens criss-crossed with snail trails. A recent job took me to an altogether different pile of bricks, […]
Leeds Guide Magazine // behind the scenes for food and fashion • by Barnaby Aldrick
Last week I hit the streets of Leeds on Leeds Guide magazine duties, assisted again by my knowledgeable homie Ben Spear of Spear Design As promised (dear readers!) I vowed to shoot a couple of behind the scenes pics to show how I get what I get on location with limited gear. Today I’ve got […]
Leeds Guide Magazine // Recent food & drink faves • by Barnaby Aldrick
After yesterday’s spring roll snaps I thought I’d post some actual food & drink photography I’ve shot for the Leeds Guide recently… It’s quite the challenge to make food look appetising. Especially as I can’t fake it by painting things with varnish and piping mashed potato into a McFlurry cup. I literally turn up at […]
Leeds Guide Magazine // Corn Exchange Spring Fashion Shoot • by Barnaby Aldrick
I was approached a week or so ago by the Leeds Guide Magazine editorial team to shoot their upcoming spring fashion feature. They’d booked the Corn Exchange (mentioned in my last post, as the place where I technically became a professional photographer!) and were looking for models. On our recent 3B Media Urban Portraits training […]
There and back again // A photographer's tale • by Barnaby Aldrick
My backstory is that I’ve always been observant. Me mam said I had ‘Sharp eyes’. It didn’t take long before I started to enjoy photography. As a young teenager I used to get packed off on organised annual canal holiday camps, cruising the delectable waterways of Birmingham with 50 random kids, who over the years […]
Leeds Guide Magazine // Xmas Party Shoot with Miss Harrogate • by Barnaby Aldrick
One of the shoots on last weeks Leeds Guide brief was to photograph Miss Harrogate in various party frocks from the shops of Leeds. Life is hard. This one was probably my fave and has my vote for the issue cover. Miss Harrogate is actually Vivienne Edge a pro model based in Leeds. I didn’t […]
Leeds Guide Magazine // Recent & past faves • by Barnaby Aldrick Photography
Bonjourno chicos! I shot another Leeds Guide last week and got up to all sorts of fun stuff. One feature was shot in House of Fraser, where a Bobby Brown makeup artist made LG sales mentalist Lucy’s eyes all smoky. Looks cool eh? And yeah yeah, I know I spelt smoky wrong on the pic. […]
Leeds Guide Magazine // Past Faves • by Barnaby Aldrick Photography
I was out on Leeds Guide duties today, shooting features for issue 234. What are the odds that the day I photograph a famous Saville Row tailor in his favourite £3K suit, that I leave the flat in a dash in last nights mud caked jeans? After shooting the tailor in a fancy Leeds Restaurant, […]
