Für THE NEW YORK TIMES begleitete Maggie SHANNON c/o MAKING PICTURES zwei kalifornische Kids beim Dressieren wilder Mustangs.
Alexander COGGIN c/o MAKING PICTURES dokumentierte für THE NEW YORKER das Begräbnis der Queen. “The New Yorker contacted me on the afternoon/early evening of the Queen’s death (Thursday night) and told me that the Queen was ill and the royals were gathering at Balmoral. The editor asked me to please get my photo kit together and ready to go because they wanted to send me out to the streets of London right away. I hurried down to Buckingham Palace.
While we had wanted to start photographing the mourning process, we quickly realized that this was not at the scale of tragedy of Princess Diana. I think my editor assumed that there would be more visible emotion, yet it was rather sombre. But over the course of the five days on which we photographed, we started to see, firstly, how commerce and capitalism were responding to the Queen. We started to see her face on mugs, t-shirts, flags and also how retail establishments were acknowledging her death.
It was an amazing experience, very hard work, and gave me a lot of insights into what Britishness is and how it is expressed at this interesting intersection of ritual, mourning, monarchy and emotion.”
Die Fotografien von Paul CALVER c/o MAKING PICTURES entführen uns im ATHLETA MAGAZINE in das Luft- und Wasseruniversum von Team GB Olympic Diver Scarlett Mew Jensen. Die Sportlerin nahm im Alter von 19 Jahren an ihren ersten Olympischen Spielen in Tokio teil, bei den möglicherweise seltsamsten Olympischen Spielen der Geschichte, ohne Fans in der Arena, aber mit so hohen Erwartungen und Nerven wie eh und je. Der Fotograf begleitete sie u.a. beim Trockentauchen im Londoner Olympia-Wasserzentrum in Stratford.
Ein perfekter Tauchgang fühlt sich laut Scarlett so an, als würde man fliegen. Im Interview erzählt sie u.a. “When you think about what you’re doing in training and why you’re doing it, it’s actually muscle memory. It’s training the nervous system so all these different parts fire the way you want. My coach always used to say that your body will try to choose the easiest path, but when you’re trying to make a change, you have to go around the long way to break that chain.”
