Celebrity portrait photographer Andy Gotts celebrates 30 years behind the camera.
Andy Gotts
When the shoot started it did not take many shots before the fun began when she started to dance and spin, and then in the very last shot she lowered her head and flicked her hair back just like a shampoo commercial.Sam oozes coolness and is every bit the lovely guy you would think he would be. The shoot was great fun and here are a few out-takes, an unseen contact-sheet of us just looning around.I shot Meryl at the Soho Hotel when she was doing a press junket for The Iron Lady and was in and out of interviews all day, but she graciously made time for me.
We began shooting and I started with the usual soft lighting, to ease into the session. It was going swimmingly with lots of banter back and forth. I then changed to the more dramatic lighting and within seconds a voice boomed across the room:It was her make-up artist and he started giving some disapproving shakes of the head in the direction of Meryl.
To my shock, I received a note back saying if I travelled to Vegas, I could shoot him at his house. I was thrilled and literally was counting the days down before I flew to the US.I answered with a heavy heart as I was expecting him to cancel the shoot, but instead in a quiet and humble voice he said:
Little was I to know Tony would die a few days later and this would be the very last portrait taken of him.I shot velvet-toned Morgan Freeman in London while he was filming Batman Begins. I was all set and awaiting the grand entrance, and was not disappointed when this 6'4" frame of a cinema legend entered the room.
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