The Other One

Being the photographer does not always mean you can control the image that is published. My job is to fulfil  the brief. This might mean shooting in a specified location or fitting the subject in to a predetermined layout. This shoot with 6 Music DJ Liz Kershaw is a case in point. 

I shot this image convinced that the Times Magazine would run with it. Infact, they wanted an interior shot image to balance out the imagery across that issue. 

So here's the out take-never used and maybe never will be. But I like it.

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