It was an absolute honour and a privilege to work and spend time with you Dolly. My heart is hurting and I’ve been lost for words as you leave this earth. But your spirit will live on for millions if not billions of people worldwide. You touched so many peoples hearts, including mine.
When you walked into the room, the energy changed in an indescribably magical way. You made everyone feel special and treated everyone as their own type of individual. You had a wicked sense of humour and a unique understanding of all types of people and their souls. An infectious personality with a punk rock spirit. When we first met, I walked into the room with my camera in hand, you were in the middle of an ITV interview, and you turned to look at me, and just straight out interrupted the reporter that was interviewing you and said “Hi there, are you a singer?! because you look like a singer..” I briefly explained my music history to you, then you returned to the interview… it was genius! You were always the Boss of every situation.
You were an actual modern day queen for men, women and children. A magician. A business woman and a philanthropist. An unstoppable force, a spiritual enterprise with an incredible team of angels (and fallen angels) who worked beside and alongside you, your unbelievable legacy, magic and love that you have left behind will carry on. Danny and Bryan have been truly amazing friends to me.
It was such an honour to be invited into your wonderful family and to share so many unique and worldly experiences with you all, take some killer shots of you owning it in London and finally in Nashville. There is so much to say, and so many stories from everyone and I possibly hope to be including some of these shots, along with stories in the book I’m working on with Bryan. Which keeps evolving and growing in chapters..I think your chapter will be called what we joked about in the hotel elevator: ‘Never Mind The Boobs, Here’s Dolly Parton’…
But for now I say thank you so much Dolly and I will always love you x
HONOUR, COURAGE, SERVICE,
I’m currently producing a military exposé documentary, all the way from Nashville, Tennessee.
Many thanks to my incredible friend and colonel, Bryan Seaver.
https://www.horribleherbert.com/#/trangers/
StormStudios 2011/2012
What an honour to work with one of the great masters of Art..In 2011/12 whilst working for Storm Thorgerson and StormStudios, I was assigned with the task of taking on the production for this album cover for Graham Gouldman. It was a huge challenge to find a rocking horse that matched Storms strict specifications and Dan’s illustration mock up, but after weeks of research and planning I found the perfect horse, hired a van and went to pick it up with Lee. On the day of the shoot Storm had us painting the skirting boards and painting around Dans illustrations that we stuck onto the wall- I remember Lee the retoucher, saying “dont worry I can do all that in post” Storm being Storm wanted it as close to perfect in camera, the way it should be. It was a proper production at a London Studio I arranged. Photographed by Storms photographer Rupert Truman on his vintage Hasselblad camera -using a digital back, immense quality.
AI (artificial intelligence) could never produce or reproduce this image to this level of realism.
I remember vividly Storm sat in his chair, directing, instructing and perfecting a child (Jerrys son) holding a rattle (which he kept throwing on the floor), on a rocking horse, whilst shouting instructions to Rupert behind the camera, and thought to myself, this is not madness at all… This is real Art.
John King - Amen
VIMIC - Joey Jordison Charitable Fund, Los Angeles, October 2025
A huge honour and a privilege to be invited and involved in such a special event celebrating and honouring Joey Jordison’s life, legacy and the long awaited release of Vimic’s record ‘Open Your Omen’. A huge thank you to the whole band and crew, Crystal, Annie and Katie for inviting me into your family and for being so kind to me. It was a joy to collaborate with you and produce fine art prints for you and the charity. All the drummers involved absolutely owned it! It was a pleasure to see and feel all this come together so organically with such passion and commitment from everyone involved. Food for the soul. Thank you x
Smokey Robinson - Utilita Arena Birmingham 08/07/25
Jerry Cantrell - London Kentish Town Forum, 17/06/25
Joey Jordison Charitable Fund
It’s a huge honour and privilege to help and be a part of this kickstarter campaign to honour and pay tribute to the beautiful one of a kind human being that was Joey Jordison. One of the greatest drummers of all time. Drummer and co-founder of Slipknot.
At the end of 2017, I spent an unforgettable day with Joey and Vimic. Joey had such a warm, special and inviting soul, with great vision and leadership, he was so enthusiastic about my ideas and what we created together. I appreciated how he really wanted to bring my vision to life. He cared about the art. He was real. I’ll never forget his warm caring energy.
When I heard about the campaign, I heard Joeys voice talking to me inside my head and here we are…
I feel so grateful to be able to help with honouring Joeys legacy and work. That his final piece of Art can finally be released to the world as he would have wanted. and a celebration event to honour his legacy. I’m so pleased and happy for the rest of the band and his whole family that this is all happening. They truly deserve this.
A Big Thank you to Annie and Crystal.
I’m the last photographer to take the last official photographs of Joey Jordison.
There will be exclusive special edition fine art prints and merchandise for sale at the event…..
More to be announced……
JAMES AND THE COLD GUN, Manchester - YES - 28th April
grassroots rock and roll at its finest. this was a proper punk rock show from start to finish. It reminded me of intimate sweatbox shows from my teenage years. This band are flying the flag for british rock and roll. James Jospeh is the new Jim Jones..watch this space..
Casey Chaos. 1965-2024.
OFF RECORD MAGAZINE - ROY MAYORGA, DEAN KARR, PAUL MULLEN
Working hard still collating interviews, photography/ imagery and graphic design for the magazine. I’m truly excited about how its developing and theres a lot of hard work ahead.
Holy Rock Studios- Oliver Kenny
A fully stocked studio and the perfect host to make a killer record with.
James And The Cold Gun
This band are awesome. I see great things for them. Young, fresh, They have organic spunk, energy and professionalism. good understanding and great potential of influence. Check out more of these images click here and then go and listen.
Hell is for Heroes UK Tour, April 2024
Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester, London. A well deserved hugely successful tour for the lads, mega fun, fantastic energy all round from the crowd and band each night. Sounding and looking huge on stage. They are a legendary institution of British rock music.
It is an absolute honour and privilege to be a part of this family; into the blood, sweat and tears…
Hell Is For Heroes.
Dolly Parton - Rockstar
It’s been incredible to spend another few days shooting Dolly and her beautiful family in London. What Dolly is creating and communicating right now through her work is punk rock. One of the only few voices in the public eye who is actually trying to tell it how it is right now. And doing something about it. Creating what she wants, not what people think they want her to create. Her opinion cannot be bought. Its a force not for sale. A role model and inspiration to everyone from every universe and background. I admire and connect with how she speaks truth about the importance of caring for others, staying true to yourself, speaking your truth, finding out who you are, then do it on purpose, with purpose, no matter what that is, to the best of your ability. And then just own it! Dolly's kickin mine, yours and everyone else’s ass right now!
Hell Is For Heroes - Bedford and 2000 Trees Festival
What a splendid and tremendous couple of shows that was with hell is for heroes. Bedford was a killer performance and had echoes of the olden day sweatbox shows, whilst 2000trees was literally a disco inferno on stage. The hottest and brightest conditions I’ve ever had to shoot in..Justin kept his jacket on for the entire performance.. I sweated like an excited rick mayall.
NFD in the studio
GOTH ROCK at its finest! It was an absolute unholy fun packed pleasure spending a few days in the studio with Bobs goth rock band NFD. Bobs fantastic passion, blood sweat, tears, drive and determination in directing and orchestrating this project and his life in general is infectiously inspiring in many ways. He’s an unstoppable machine. A solid unit of decent geezers creating real music.
Pop Will Eat Itself - May 2023 UK Tour
Playing 3 of the most unique music venues in the UK, from small to big, it was classic PWEI fun and banter. ‘Psychedelic punk rock hip hop from out of space’.
Yourcodenameis:milo, Newcastle Cluny
struggling to find words to describe the vast array of creative influences this band have had on my life. Last night was so special. YCNI:M have morphed from a pint of lager into a rich embodied glass of fine wine. Age is just a number.
RAPT.DEPT.
