BEST OF 2025

2025 SUMMARY

I had every intention of posting this earlier this month, but this year’s January is running away from me. It’s not a bad thing however, as the beginning of the year in this latitude can often feel like inhabiting Mordor - dark, hopeless, grey, where time is stretched beyond limits and where the thought of spring and light is but a memory. It turns out that flying off to Italy on January 2nd can help with that predicament massively. Who would’ve thought? My partner and I spent some time in Palermo (18 degrees Celsius, thank you very much) and then Milan and since coming back, my work has been in overdrive. I’m in the middle of the Celtic Connections festival, which I’m delighted to be covering 3rd year in a row, and which will inevitably be the subject of the next blog post (in anticipation, you’re welcome to check out previous years’ outings here and here). On top of that, I’ve got major projects with Horse, Kris Drever and Rainbow Room underway so I’m a bit stretched at the moment. Again, not a bad thing at all, I’m enjoying the work and it keeps my mind from worrying about that massive tax bill hanging over my head. But hey, life of a freelancer, right? Anyway, enough rambling. Here are some of my favourite images from 2025 as well as the music I was listening to. Enjoy and have a wonderful 2026.

ALBUMS OF 2025
Euro-Country CMAT
Owls, Omens, and Oracles Valerie June
Man’s Best Friend Sabrina Carpenter
Lux Rosalía
Through The Wall Rochelle Jordan
Lifetime Erika de Casier
Lay Low Eddie Chacon
Vie Doja Cat
Addison Addison Rae
Can’t Lose My (Soul) Annie & The Caldwells
That’s Showbiz Baby! Jade

SONGS OF 2025
Wrong Annie & The Caldwells
Headphones On Addison Rae
Euro-Country CMAT
Balenciaga Covered Eyes Agnes
Type Dangerous Mariah Carey
Dopamine Robyn
Jealous Type Doja Cat
Tears Sabrina Carpenter
Berghain Rosalía
Doing It To Rochelle Jordan

Crawford Mack

Portrait shoot with Crawford Mack

I met Crawford Mack a few years ago when a friend took me to see him live at the legendary King Tuts in Glasgow. I didn’t know much about him but as it turns out, he’s a very talented singer/songwriter with great stage presence. We chatted briefly after the gig and I left thinking it would be great to work together at some point. The opportunity came about last year when Crawford got in touch to get some new promo shots done. We spent a couple of hours at Basement49 and below are some of my favourite images from that session:

GEAR
Nikon Z8
Nikkor Z 85mm f1.2
Tiffen Black Pro-mist 1/4 Filter
Profoto B10
Profoto A10
Profoto OCF Softbox 3' Octa
Profoto OCF Magnum Reflector
Profoto Clic Softbox Octa 2’
Reflector

Heidi Talbot - Grace Untold

PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTWORK & VIDEO FOR HEIDI TALBOT’S NEW ALBUM

Grace Untold is the new album from Irish singer-songwriter Heidi Talbot. I met Heidi on a shoot with Boo Hewerdine in February 2024, although I’d been wanting to photograph her for a long time. Heidi and I got along brilliantly, sharing our love of music and yoga, and I guess that shoot with Boo went well as I was asked to create visuals to promote Heidi’s new release, Grace Untold, an album inspired by and dedicated to Irish women, warriors and goddesses. I shot the album cover, filmed and produced the video EPK and designed the CD and Vinyl packaging. See all of that and more below:

Album Cover shoot, March 2025:

Hair & Make Up: Paulina Siembor
Styling: Michelle Watson Creative
Assistance: Marta

Album Promo, April 2025:

Album EPK:

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Nikon Z8
Nikkor Z 85mm f1.2 + Tiffen Black Pro-mist 1/4 Filter
Profoto A10 + Profoto Clic Softbox Octa 2’
Reflector
DJI RS 2

Indy '25

PORTRAIT SESSION WITH INDY IN MUGDOCK PARK

I photographed Indy back in 2019 in a studio setting. When he reached out earlier this year with the idea to collaborate again, we decided to go in a different direction this time and shot outdoors, in the ever-faithful Mugdock Park. See a few of my favourite images from the day below:

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Nikon Z8
Nikkor Z 85mm f1.2
Tiffen Black Pro-mist 1/4 Filter
Profoto A10
Profoto Clic Softbox Octa 2’