Duncan Raban

Yesterday I was walking around Brick Lane and I noticed a lady with a fabulous coat on. So I said, “Wow! What a beautiful coat, you’re wearing, you look like a supermodel!” Her name was Christiana Keene, and it turned out she used to model in the 1960’s. I always try to photograph at least one person I meet on the street a day, so I asked her to do a glamour fashion walk. I found a great wall of colourful graffiti to use as a backdrop and got her to put her arms in the air for a glamorous photo   I then went to a café and got chatting to a guy called David who was a video journalist with an online magazine. As he left the café I said “How about a few happy photos?” I called him ‘playboy’ which had him in hysterics and I

Today I was asked to photograph a director of a fab new internet company. I hate shooting normal corporate pictures. The thing with all these corporate portraits is that they say nothing about the person or their personality. So instead of shooting the normal corporate portrait I thought I would do something a little bit different… A few days before I photographed him, I asked him what his biggest passion was. He told me he loved surfing. So I asked him where his surfboard was and he told me it was in his shed at home. So I told him to bring it in to the shoot and he brought his surfboard into London… on the bus! I thought it would be fun to shoot Chris surfing and even got him in the road as taxis and buses zoomed passed- it really was a fun shoot to do.