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Face To Face Creative Portraits Is Just £29 Away From Its First Stretch Goal

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3 years ago

February 20, 2024

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The Momentum Keeps Going

Thanks to the support of Mark London at Mad Cave Studios, Face To Face Creative Portraits has sailed past its target, now on 138 per cent of what we were looking for. So now once we hit £3500, which is only £29 away, then our first stretch goal will be an extra spread in the book, featuring Kiwi expat Roger Langridge. If we hut £4500 then our second stretch goal will be two extra spreads in the book. If we get to £5500, then everyone who pledges will get an exclusive photo print…

Here’s the second of my write-ups on how I met some of the subjects in the book. This one is about fantasy legend Michael Moorcock. Tripwire has interviewed him a number of times, first around 2008 but we went on to interview him on the website and I have also met him a number of times. He was kind enough to come to our Tripwire 21st anniversary event at Foyles in London back in 2013 and he even wrote the introduction to the book Studio Space that I wrote most of which came out back in 2008. He is always a great photo subject and always very generous with his time. He is the last of the British sci-fi and fantasy writers who were part of New Worlds who is still with us and his influence is still huge.

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

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