Face To Face Creative Portraits Is Well On The Way To Its Second Stretch Goal

A Frank Approach

Face To Face Creative Portraits has now hit its first stretch goal and is motoring towards its second stretch goal. Here’s a look at another subject in the book…

Frank Quitely, real name Vincent Deighan, is a Scottish comic artist and illustrator who I have know since around 1995. He has remained refreshingly unchanged since we first met. I have interviewed him on a number of different occasions including at Wonder Con in San Francisco years ago, at his former studio in Glasgow for Masters Of Comics and at bar The Tron in the city too. We have even played pool together down in London a number of years ago. He has a great face for portrait photos and we have a unique rapport. He is always one of my favourite subjects.

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?