Face To Face Creative Portraits Is Just £266 Away From Its Second Stretch Goal

Distinctive Features

Face To Face Creative Portraits is only £266 away from its second stretch goal. Here’s a look at another subject in the book, Andy Serkis…

Andy Serkis is an actor and director who is probably best known playing Gollum in Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings and Ceasar in Matt Reeves’ Planet Of The Apes films. I only met and interviewed him once at a roundtable for War For The Planet Of The Apes at New York Comic Con back in 2016. he has such a wonderful face and features that he makes a great portrait photo. This was one of the examples of having to make quick decisions to get your photos as time was very tight. I still think these are some of the best portrait photos I have taken.

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?