Durlston Powell

I'm lucky; I love people, I love photography and I love photographing people! I'm doubly lucky; even though I've been earning some money on and off behind the camera for almost 30 years, it's not my primary income so I'm free to do the shoots I want, rather than having to take jobs that pay. What I like shooting is beautiful people and (not covered here) architecture.

Where I have been unlucky is that over the past few years, my job has intruded more and more into my time and I have found myself dragged away from doing portraiture as it takes more coordination and planning than architecture. So, I am now making a concentrated effort to get back to what I want. I have a small home studio (my adult son moved into my previous, larger space!) which I sometimes use for friends' portraits, but I'm now more interested in shooting on location to capitalise on some recent training by Damien Lovegrove and want to update my portrait portfolio.

What I shoot goes into image libraries and so my shoots are to 'speculative briefs' rather than commissions, which means that although I know what I want to achieve in any particular session, I'm always very happy for it to be a two-way (or wider) creative event.