Face To Face Creative Portraits On The Way To £6000 Now

A Scottish Original

Face To Face Creative Portraits is well over double its target and on the way to £6000 now with a week left. Here’s a look at another subject in the book, Sottish writer Iain Banks…

Iain Banks, sometimes known as Iain M Banks on his science fiction novels, was a Scottish writer who came to prominence with his debut novel The Wasp Factory. I interviewed him just once back in 1999 when his novel The Business was out but these photos were taken at a British Library event back in 2012. Sadly Banks died  just a year later in June 2013 of cancer. He hd a wonderfully warm face and these portraits, which I entered into the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Prize a few years ago, are some of my favourite photos I have taken of anyone.

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 get us further along with just 8 days left to go on the campaign.

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