James Beighton, Executive Director – Tees Valley Arts (Headshots)
James is very interested in the history of the Middlesbrough area. He is the head of Tees Valley Arts and their office overlooks the original Middlesbrough Town Hall. So we chose to shoot some of James’ headshots around this historic and rather dilapidated building. Of course, we also shot against other backdrops and as the sun was so very bright and hard that day, we also shot some in the studio.
As James heads an arts organisation and is passionate about the arts I went for a more creative approach in terms of composition, lighting and editing. In fact, I made an initial creative edit of each photograph then I made an even more stylised version.