THE DADDY
22 Jul 2011
Last week ‘The Wife’ gave birth to our first beautiful child, Olivia Daisy Winnall. Exciting Times!

Last week ‘The Wife’ gave birth to our first beautiful child, Olivia Daisy Winnall. Exciting Times!

I’m over in Kiev this week shooting for Kyivstar, Leo Burnett and ShootGroup. Here is a snap climbing the stairs to my apartment…


Here are a couple of pics from a new project with talented chap @bydanwhite we made yesterday…
Stuart Pilkington recently asked me to take part in a photographic project he is curating called The Chain. My task was to photograph my first childhood memory…
On the recent Houseparty Shoot we grabbed some time between snapping stills to shoot a little film of the day….


Often whilst working on commercial shoots, I try to steel a few moments to take Black & White Portraits of the models. The timeless quality of a monochrome portrait is always spellbinding for us photographers. Here is Georgia, 12, who I’d shot in the meadows surrounding my home as a little lifestyle test for an NYC Agency who’d asked to see some shots of the ‘Tween’ demographic, that did cause a scramble for the dictionary! Luke, who had been cast on the Camden Diner Shoot, is a very talented actor, watch out for him on the big screen…

Had a great day shooting in Camden last friday, while London was blessed in glorious sunshine! Mojitos were mixed, Champagne sprayed and warm beers consumed! Keep an eye out for the footage and snaps from the shoot soon. We had brilliant models, bad-ass location sorted by the lovely Siobhan at The Collective, and loads of help from Art Director Gemma plus Elkie, Jack & Tall Graham…

I’ve spent today location scouting for project I’m starting work on next month. Looking for locations plays to the inquisitive nature that all us photographers seem to share, but it can also feel frustrating, searching for a perfect place that might not even exist! All these shots were taken in the area surrounding my home, along the route of my (occasional) 10k run! It was nice to spend the day exploring…

Shot a fun lifestyle test for my folio / reel in glorious London sunshine at the Cantelowes Skatepark last week, with lots of help from talented mates Katie Ackerman & Jack Flynn, plus our lovely models. Here’s a couple of taster images from the shoot.

Heres a pic from the lifestyle shoot we did in Camden recently….

An irrational love of trees and sheep mean that I live out in the beautiful english countryside, but loads of my work is in London…. So I’m delighted to now have a full time london base at the super-cool RoofUnit! It’ houses desks full of talented photographers, plus me(!) and a studio… Really looking forward to moving in soon!

David Milligan-Croft is organising an Art Exhibition / Auction to raise funds for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I was more than happy when I was asked to donate a framed print of my Gorilla photograph to the cause. Find out more information here and here. The auction is tonight in Manchester. Its a great project and I hope they raise lots of money!! :::: UPDATE over £5000 raised!

Here’s a little behind the scenes snap of us working away on a great little lifestyle photography shoot at The Diner in Camden. We’re starting to combine shooting motion tests whilst on personal projects, look out for the shots and a reel soon!
I had a new portfolio made last year by the lovely Cathy Roberts in London. I’m just getting round to pimping it around agencies and clients, so thought I’d show some pictures here too. I’ve got a Lifestyle book and a Portrait book, plus a swanky iPad folio with some other work, projects and video on, using the great foliobook iPad app. Its quite rare these days to get my book called in by clients, but its a lovely thing to see all the work on paper! I’m looking forward to getting the books out there…. If anyone wants to take a look, get intouch!
My mate Natasha Freeman has got herself a sparkly new blog! With suspiciously good taste in wordpress themes, she presents delicious unmissable delights, such as me walking backwards (see above!)… Natasha is a very talented artdirector / producer / stylist based in London. Defo check her work out here!
Here’s a bit of colour to get away from all the Black & White’ness on this blog recently!!
I shot at a great recording studio, Monochrome Productions, and here’s an early preview of some of the retouched shots…
Here’s a quick behind the scenes vid I shot with a little FlipVideo on a recent Advertisng Shoot job for the lovely people at SFR / Leg in Paris. I’ll post the shots up soon!
Paris Shoot / BTS from Simon Winnall on Vimeo.

Here’s a recent snap of Karl…