Face To Face Creative Portraits over Double Its Target Now

An Illustrator With True Impact

Face To Face Creative Portraits is well over double its target. Here’s a look at another subject in the book, British illustrator and newspaper artist Posy Simmonds…

Posy Simmonds is a British illustrator and newspaper artist with a career going back to the 1980s. Her work has appeared regularly in the Guardian and two of her comic stories, Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe, have been turned into films. I interviewed her at her house which also contains her studio in King’s Cross in London for the Masters Of Comics book back in 2017. I have met her a few times before and after too and she is a great subject for portraits. This year she won the prestigious Grand Prix award at the Angouleme Festival.

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 9 days left to go on the campaign.

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