The picture was taken in London at the home of Peter Holgate who is an accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers to illustrate a story for the their internal news magazine.

The story itself is about Peter playing at a private function at the Ivy whilst Elton John was downstairs having dinner and as part of Peter’s repertoire he played Rocket man.

I had been with another client earlier in the day and had read the tribute to Arnold Newman in The Times in their reception and decided to shoot one shot in a style of his famous portrait of Stravinsky not that I am in his league but for over 20 years have admired his work. Peter was a pleasure to photograph and I shot this towards the end of the session. I converted the file to black and white as I prefer it this way.

Alan has been a professional photographer since 1982. Trained at Blackpool College his first fulltime job was with Sefton Newspapers, and he has worked in news papers ever since before joining Words and Pictures, based in Otley near Leeds, to head up the photographic side of the business in 2004.

Words and Pictures work for a wide variety of commercial and education clients producing internal/external news magazines. Clients are as diverse as PWC, Yorkshire Forward, St Pauls school to inner city Manchester schools – its never dull !