Words & Photos

The Client

Halsgrove Publishing produce coffee table books featuring Britain’s regions, cities and villages, illustrated with full-colour photography.

 

The Brief

To produce original photography, and provide captions, for Northumberland Illuminated, as well as four others featuring Northern Ireland.

 

The Northern Ireland books, in particular, presented a complex challenge and involved much preparation, both in advance of the photography and after it had been completed. We needed to:

 

• Decide which places to feature in the books, and research them thoroughly before we arrived;

 

• Organise complex travel and accommodation arrangements (the Northern Ireland books required two trips of three weeks each);

 

• Contact people in charge of the sites to be photographed, including negotiating for access to places which are not normally open to the public;

 

• Undertake further research into the history and background of the sites featured, once the photography was completed, in order to provide interesting and informative captions to accompany the images.

 

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Halsgrove Publishing

It’s been a pleasure. Thanks for being so easy to work with!

 

Andy Stansfield

Editor, Northumberland Illuminated