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alex winn photography/design

Rebel without a pause

About Me

Hi! I'm Alex Winn - a freelance photographer/graphic designer based in East London. I specialise in music, fashion and portrait photography. I love my job and this continually motivates me to produce the best possible creative results. My personal style favours dramatic lighting and vibrant colours to produce punchy and provocative images. My clients include musicians, fashion designers, dancers and corporates and my work has been featured in magazines, on TV, on CD covers and on a wide range of websites.
Please checkout my website www.alexwinn.com for some examples of my work or subscribe to my blog to keep up to date with my latest work etc.
I have very reasonable rates, so if you'd like to commission me for any photography or design work, don't be shy - drop me a line! :)
I've also been known to spend a bit of time in the studio producing music - you can hear more about that on my music profile www.myspace.com/triggerhippytunes
Checkout this interview on funkduplondon.com
(Click on the main page to enter, then choose no 8 - archive and select the November 07 issue - I'm the last icon down on the left)
This gives me goosebumps everytime I watch it.... 1983 : a great year for music :)

My Interests

music, music, music!!!! crate digging (I'm a major vinyl junkie), DJing, piercings, well written books/films, rollerblading.... ermm... graphics and photography and some occasional dancefloor mayhem

I'd like to meet:

Halle Berry would be nice (he says.... daydreaming wildly... lol), but back in the real world.... anyone who needs photos or anyone who's up for a laugh. Other like minded souls, creative bods - if you're focussed and ambitious and are a dancer, model, a make-up artist, a stylist, a musician, a photographer....

Music:

this could be a very long list... I'm gonna chose tracks not albums : Young MC - Know How, Evelyn King - Love Come Down, Cinematic Orchestra - Evolution, Roots Manuva - Witness, Marvin Gaye - Troubled Man, 2 Bad Mice - Bombscare, Solution - Feels So Right, Leftfield - Phat Planet, Space Clique - Exit #1 Luna Park, Joyce Sims - All and All, Ragga Twins - Hooligan 69, Fog - Been A Long Time, Erykah Badu - On And On, Beenie Man - Who Am I, Omar - There's Nothing Like This, Ty - Oh You Want More, The Prodigy - Firestarter, Yazoo - Sweet Thing, Tony! Toni! Toné! - Let's Get Down, Roy Davis Jr - Gabriel, Gat Decor - Passion, Mtume - Tie Me Up, The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Red Snapper - The Sleepless, Thelma Houston - You Used To Hold Me, Roni Size - Watching Windows, Rodney P - Revolutionary, Silver Bullet - 20 Seconds To Comply, Chaka Demus & Pliers - Murder She Wrote, London Posse - Money Mad, Incognito - Get Into My Groove (Jazzanove Re-Groove Mix), James Brown - The Boss, Dr Dre/Snoop - Deep Cover, Lamb - Gorecki, William De Vaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got, The Specials - Ghost Town, The Freestylers - B-Boy Stance, Thievery Corporation - Assault On Babylon, KRS 1 - Sound of Da Police, Depeche Mode - Useless (K&D Remix), Gill Scott - Gettin In The Way, Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause, LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out, B-Sides Vol II - The Tape, Jay Z - I Just Wanna Love You (Give It To Me), Soul 2 Soul - Fairplay, Masters At Work - I Can't Get No Sleep....

Movies:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Do The Right Thing, The Secretary, American Beauty, Garden State, Heat, Bowling for Columbine, Saw, Lost In Translation, The Insider, Pulp Fiction

Television:

don't really spend a lot of time in front of the telly, but would probably have to go for CSI (original or Miami, not NY), Weeds, Prison Break, Lost

Books:

Freakanomics (Levitt & Dunbar), Complicity (Ian Banks), No Logo (Naomi Klein), Stupid White Men (Michael Moore), Notes From A Small Island (Bill Bryson), The Dice Man (Luke Reinhart), James Ellroy - The Cold Six Thousand

Heroes:

Ansel Adams, Bansky, Bill Brandt, DJ Sasha, Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Hype (Fantasy FM days), anyone who stands up for something they believe in...

My Blog

behind the scenes with Ty the joker

hey people,I just did a shoot with the hip hop legend known as Ty and I gotta say I spent as much time laughing as I did taking pics. Check the video to see what went down.... big thanks to e...
Posted by alex winn photography/design on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:06:00 PST

My latest photoshoots

Hey people! I know it's been a while since my last update... but as always I've been very busy :) Here's a quick sample of some of the recent work I've been involved in! As always, I really appreciate...
Posted by alex winn photography/design on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:08:00 PST

My latest photoshoots

Hey people! So it's been a while... but things have been kinda hectic here @ the HQ of the AW movement :) It's also been a bit messy..... as you'll see from some of the photos... hehheh. Anyway...let ...
Posted by alex winn photography/design on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:43:00 PST

My recent photoshoots

Hey people! I've been very, very busy recently.... busier than a busy bee in a honey factory.. lol. so here's a compact collection of shots from a few different shoots with a few different people! As ...
Posted by alex winn photography/design on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:00:00 PST

Friend requests : please read

Hey people,UPDATED 24-11-2007Friend requestsI'm getting quite a few at the moment, so please bear with me. I like to try and read/comment everyone's page but I don't always get time. So if I just add...
Posted by alex winn photography/design on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:07:00 PST

Photoshoot with JoAnne Jackson

Hey people! Here are some shots from a studio photoshoot I did a while ago for JoAnne Jackson. Jo is an ambitious girl who is working hard to raise her profile in the entertainment industry, taking on...
Posted by alex winn photography/design on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:32:00 PST

Photoshoot for Simone Kaye

Hey people! Here are some shots from a photoshoot I did a while ago for  Simone Kaye. Simone is a talented singer/songwriter  who I first met during the summer when she was wowing the crowd...
Posted by alex winn photography/design on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:15:00 PST

Photos : Soho Rainforest Festival 23-10-2006

Hey people! A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of covering a week-long music festival in the centre of London. It was called the Soho Rainforest Jam and was organised together with STARO, a charity w...
Posted by alex winn photography/design on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:35:00 PST

Photos : Soho Rainforest Festival 22-10-2006

Hey people! A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of covering a week-long music festival in the centre of London. It was called the Soho Rainforest Jam and was organised together with STARO, a cha...
Posted by alex winn photography/design on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:14:00 PST

Photos : Soho Rainforest Festival - 21-10-2006

Hey people! A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of covering a week-long music festival in the centre of London. It was called the Soho Rainforest Jam and was organised together with STARO, a cha...
Posted by alex winn photography/design on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:22:00 PST