Alp.

Work has begun in earnest on my book project simply entitled Alp. Here we see the mighty north west face of the Wetterhorn, standing 3693m high above Grindlewald in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland.

Calanda for Publicis Zurich

We were in Switzerland shooting personal work a little while ago when Publicis Zurich called. Luckily I was able to pop straight round for a chat.

The resulting campaign turned into a great adventure around the Grisons area of Switzerland and ticked off something I’ve wanted to do for quite a while.

As a keen ski mountaineer I have a real love for the mountains so when we had a chance to be heli dropped on the summit of Piz Palu (4000m)  I was super excited.

It snowed quite heavily the night before the shoot so it was impossible for anyone to climb the mountain the next day. This meant that for our shot we had the summit all to ourselves.

We jumped out of the chopper, roped up, crampons on, ice axe in hand and set out across the snowy ridge.

Art Director, Conny Jaeger

Creative Director, Roger Ruegger

Produced by KT Produktion

Retouching; Steve Rochford at Layer1retouching.com

Black Crows

I shot this new series on location above Grindelwald, Switzerland and in Chamonix, France. It’s an idea that I came upon whilst reading ‘Mountains of my Life’ by seminal alpinist Walter Bonatti. The saying goes that black crows (choucas) are the souls of climbers lost to the mountains.

Le Monde Carte Blanche

I was very excited to get a call from Florence Moll my French agent a couple of weeks ago. ” Le Monde would like you to shoot something for their Carte Blanche……”

Le Monde choose a different artist each week. The brief is to simply shoot whatever you like, the only criteria being that it’s shot within a ten day period.

I flew to Chamonix, French Alps where they are having the coldest winter for 40 years. I positioned myself high in the mountains and waited for the sun to set…. here is the result.

New Edition

Lac Emosson, Switzerland.

Archival piezo print 96x72cm edition of 20

Matterhorn

The Matterhorn, Zermatt, Switzerland.

One of my projects this summer is to make an album of alpine field recordings. The recordings will be pressed onto heavy weight vinyl and each track will be accompanied by a colour plate.