Face To Face Creative Portraits Is Just £161 Away From Its Second Stretch Goal

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Face To Face Creative Portraits is only £161 away from its second stretch goal. Here’s a look at another subject in the book, Walter Simonson…

Walter Simonson is an artist and writer best known for his acclaimed run on Thor and also his work on Fantastic Four. I am very lucky as I have become friendly with him and he created one of the unique covers for the first part of our Sherlock Holmes graphic novel.  I have interviewed him for the two studio books, for Comic Heroes and for Tripwire. He is always very easygoing and a great subject whenever I interview him or take his photo and still probably the nicest man in comics.

In over thirty years as a professional journalist I have interviewed pretty much every mover and shaker in the worlds of comics, film, TV and genre. Also if I have been lucky enough to  do it face to face, I have always made sure I can capture them with one of my own photos. So I thought it was time to try and encapsulate this in a book. Face to Face features 50 subjects from the worlds of comics, film, TV, books and genre, offering a snapshot if you’ll pardon the pun of my career as a journalist and a photographer.
Shooting portraits sometimes with only a few minutes to do this at a press event or a convention rather than the comfort of a creator’s home or studio surroundings can be a challenge. For me creating a portrait is intended to be a piece that reflects the essence of the subject that I have shot and that is why I like to photograph people that I have interviewed as I already have a rapport with the subject.

Here’s where to pledge on the book and help us get to the second stretch goal, £4500, where we add a second brand new spread

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tripwire100/face-to-face-0?