Howard Grey

Various promotional photography for a hotel group in London, including Carlton Towers Hotel. The brief required pack shots of the rooms etc and Howard suggested they get some business people having meetings and young couples shopping aswell. The shots became more about lifestyle than the actual rooms. The adverts and brochures were very successful.

“This was a few weeks after she was noticed by a friend brushing hair off the floor of a hair salon in Bayswater. She came in and she was 15 or something, did lots of pictures. I called her in July and spoke to her Dad- he said ‘Lesley doesn’t live here anymore, she’s gone off with a model promoter- Justin de Villeneuve’. She called me later- ‘Let’s do some more pictures’ and she came round and looked completley different her hair was platinum and Justin said ‘Every time you use a model you must use Twiggy- I’m gonna make her famous’. A few months went by and he said ‘I’ve heard about these photographs you’ve taken of Twiggy, have you got any more?’, I said ‘Yeah, lots- we did a whole shoot’ and he said ‘If you ever publish any of these photographs that you took before I met her- I’ll see to it that you never work again and you’ll never walk again.’

At that time I shared a studio with three other photographers- and Justin got friendly with one, David Stanford, and when I went to India for six weeks, I came back and my file had been jemmied open and all the photos, negs and contact sheets of the Lesley Hornby shoot had been stolen. The only photo left was a tear sheet from a girly magazine.”

Fashion shoot for a German magazine

Portrait of a young Stephen Hawking.

Adverts shot for Japan Airlines. They were shot in daylight on a roof.

Shots for a news feature documenting the town of Aberfan 25 years after a disaster which saw a mining spoil heap slide down a mountain destroying a primary school and killing 144 people.