Harper's Bazaar March 2011

This is a series of photographs shot for the March issue of Harper's Bazaar.
I had very limited time to organise this one, on the day the couple were snowed in and were five hours behind schedule, with a bit of rushing it turned out OK in the end though.
I wanted to photograph a real life couple so friends Shona and Simon jumped at the chance. Simon is wearing one of our limited edition artist t shirts (available in store only) and Shona is wearing a T Style spring floral dress to match the season. The basic idea was to get them tangled together, I love lighting with lamps so what better way to do it than with fairy lights. I try to tell a story in my photos and quite often on shoots the story rolls out in front of you as you go. Throw in an invisible  third person using a 1980s telephone and a painting of a sinister black cat and there you have a narrative.
The only bad thing that came from this was a computer melt down the next day and a loss of amazing pictures with the fairy lights of the the two of them in the snow. Sorry about your frozen feet guys!