Gathering moments and momentum.
Ray Burmiston
29 September 2020
29 September 2020
14 March 2018
This time last year I was lucky enough to photograph this gentleman .The occasion was the Radio Times Covers Party, an event to celebrate all the cover stars from that year. The main party was in the swanky surroundings of the main ballroom at Claridges. I was in a (very grand) side room where we had set up a colourama backdrop to turn it into a studio space .The idea being that we would take portraits of all the artists after they had received their awards.
29 April 2017
It was indeed a bizarre moment when the band assembled in front of me for the first shot of the day .They had not been together for a photoshoot since 2001 and there was an abundance of nervous laughter as they all reconnected with their characters from yesteryear. Having shot STEPS on numerous occasions in the past it was a bit of a groundhog day moment for me too.
15 January 2017
We shot this in October ,on the steps of the beautiful St.Johns Church in South West London. The shoot was for the cover of the Aled Jones Christmas release “One Voice At Christmas”.
29 January 2016
The stills shoot to promote the Christmas day Dr.Who episode was shot in Cardiff & London. The final images that the Beeb used were animated into a cool little viral.
29 January 2016
Tonight, The Voice 2016 starts and it seemed only fitting to post this little bit of brilliance that was filmed during the coaches photoshoot I did for the BBC.
5 June 2015
I’m very chuffed to have been interviewed by Harry Hitchens and Matt Shore for their brilliant Filler Podcast series. Journalistically wedged somewhere between “This Is Your Life” and “How to survive in cameraland in 2015”, we traded stories, photographic anecdotes and industry tips. During the interview we trawled through my time fronting a band ,falling into a career with a camera, right through to some recent photographic commissions.
13 February 2015
This is a behind the scenes shot taken during my recent photoshoot for the BBC, photographing the series iconics for “The Voice 2015”. During this full on, but fantastic day, there were only 4 people in front of my camera, but at any one time at least 30 people behind it, all making valuable contributions to the proceedings, like a big arty melting pot. I had just asked Tom Jones to back up to the wall, throw his arms to his side and look menacingly into the camera. He just smiled at me and replied “whatever you want me to do boy’o “.
15 January 2017
Just before Crimbletime I went off to the outbacks of Reading to photograph the album sleeve for the new Gareth Malone Album, “A Great British Christmas”.
6 December 2014
This is the BBC poster that came out of the final shoot that Matt Smith did as the Dr. Visually he is a treat to photograph….his face has more angles than a protractor. As he was staring into my lens i thought he really did look part human and part something else.