Andrew's Working Stories, number 6

I had a job for the Daily Telegraph last week in New Romney, just over the border in Kent; a fairly standard financial page story needing an interesting portrait of a man who happened to live there.

It’s a long drive from Brighton to New Romney; out past Eastbourne, through Hastings, then Rye, and on past Camber. I had come straight from a Guardian job shooting portraits of Sally Gunnell in Steyning so, after the second job was finished, I didn’t fancy just getting straight back in the car and heading home. Neither job was needed until tomorrow, so there was no pressure on that front.

When you finish one assignment, why not look around you and see what else there is to shoot. Is there anything that could be useful for a stock library?

New Romney is just five miles from Dungeness so I decided to pop down there and see what I could see, wander about for a while and stretch my legs.

I love it at Dungeness…it’s the very strangest part of this country in my opinion and, when I got there, the light was really interesting. I pulled out a camera to take a few shots for myself; if I happened to see something saleable, then so much the better.

I took some shots of the power station and the lifeboat station nearby. On the way back I stopped and shot a load of pictures of the electricity pylons stretching off into the distance, and a wind farm / pylon combo. That kind of generic thing is great for stock so don’t just drive past it…get out and shoot it.