Being asked to photograph in an old factory...what more could a photographer ask for? - Except maybe some more time.
It was a freezing cold December morning in the derelict Spode factory with the creative director of Flux.
"We've got an hour."
It's one of those places a photographer could get lost in for whole days at a time and still not feel they had photographed enough. Old pottery wheels and kilns, tables, chairs and random pieces of furniture scattered around the place, barns filled out with racking stacked high full of casts and moulds. An interesting place to visit and I only got chance to see such a small part of it.
In many of the rooms there was no light, it was a difficult environment to shoot in but after the hour was up my freezing cold hands were relieved, I was covered in dust, my kit was covered in dust but I think we did it.
The reason for the quick turn around was due to the designers awaiting the photographs for the brochure that Flux requested to be ready in time for the Paris trade show later this month. I'm pleased to say I received the first draft today and I'll try and get my hands on a final print as soon as I can.
