Legal note: all my images of Sir Richard Branson are copyright Owen Billcliffe Photography, and licensed to Virgin Management for editorial use only. For any other use, including any branding or commercial use of any kind, please get in touch with me to arrange a license. Thank you!
Back in March I spent a couple of days following Sir Richard Branson around the Virgin HQ in Paddington, documenting his day meeting and greeting a variety of business partners, VIPs and other visitors. At one point towards the end of a very busy day he stepped out onto the roof of the Battleship Building to record a video greeting for one of the many projects he’s involved in, and I grabbed the opportunity to shoot some candid portraits as he gazed up into the near-twilight and pointed out some of the sights to be seen from the lofty vantage point. It was around 7pm so it was getting pretty dark, but there was a twinkle of colour left in the sky so I pushed up the ISO on my D700 to around 4000 and got some great shots.
A few weeks ago I was approached by Virgin Money who wanted to license one of them for a newspaper ad they had planned, and I’m pleased to say that last week the ad ran in a bunch of the UK’s press including The Guardian, Times, Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph and others. It’s always fantastic to see my work in print but I was out of the country at the time so some friends are digging out hard copies for me to get a clipping, and in the meantime Jo at Virgin Money kindly sent over a digital copy for me to share.
So, that’s nice! You can find out more about my documentary event photography here.
