Shooting at this historic house just outside Dublin. It was from here that Eoin MacNeill gave the counter command not to rise on Easter Sunday, 1916. Trying to shoot exteriors but we are battling the Irish summer! 

In London for the day casting for an upcoming D shoot

And these...

I love these faces from last night's casting.

On a recce around the outskirts of Dublin looking for houses and gardens that I haven't shot at before.

Casting for an upcoming shoot. I love finding new people - particularly in Dublin.

Back in Dublin. Working on a project for hit Irish tv drama Love Hate. On set again today. Here's Nidge - the main man - played by Tom Vaughan-Lawlor.

Just back from seeing the Bill Brandt show at MOMA. Beautiful prints. Many he treated with black washes to create dense shadows. Have always loved this portrait of Francis Bacon on Primrose Hill. Brandt said: "snapshots show only the likeness of a certain moment and are never good portraits. The photographer has to wait until something between dreaming and action occurs in the expression of a face".

Shooting in NY this week and got a chance to visit The Met today to see James Nares' beautiful and mesmerising film 'Street'. James Nares says of the film, "My intention was to give the dreamlike impression of floating through a city full of people frozen in time, caught Pompeii-like, at a particular moment of thought, expression, or activity... a film to be viewed 100 years from now". As I was leaving a young boy turned to his mother and, pointing to the screen, asked, "What's that?" to which she replied, "Oh, that's just people walking".

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/street

Today is the 100th anniversay of the birth of Norman Parkinson aka Parks. I met Parks at Trinidad Carnival in 1988. We were both staying in the Queens Park Hotel overlooking the Savvanah in Port of Spain - a wonderful run down old world hotel that is sadly no longer. I had seen him and his wife Wenda there in previous years but never actually met them. By the time I met him in 1988 his wife had died. Parks invited us to visit him at his house in Tobago but we never made it over. I did get to see - and photograoph - the house some years later, long after Parks had died. A magical place in the most amazing location. Will try to dig out some pictures. Meantime, I've always loved this picture he made in the Seychelles for British Vogue circa 1971 and styled by Grace Coddington.