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"Cameras.... are Clocks for Seeing."
- Roland Barthes, 'Camera Lucida', Hill and Wang 1982

My approach in portraiture is 'be nice' - it is about Time and the Sitter, not about me.





  • Stephen Calloway, Author & Curator
    'Stephen Calloway', Author & Curator
  • Maurice Mullen, Head of Fashion & Luxury Goods, London Evening Standard & ‘ES’ Magazine; Visiting Fellow – University of the Arts, London; Member – Advisory Board, British Fashion Council
    'Maurice Mullen', Head of Fashion & Luxury Goods London Evening Standard & ‘ES’ Magazine
  • Susan Owens, Author & Curator
    'Susan Owens', Author & Curator
  • 'Matt', Cartoonist
  • "Magna Carta was a reassertion of the limits of arbitrary executive power. So it was a seminal moment in the development of the rule of law and due process. The issue and re-issue of Magna Carta during the 13th Century is an inspiring history that reflects a distinctly English revulsion against all forms of executive abuse and insistence on due process of law. There are those who say that Magna Carta only conferred rights on powerful barons. This is not the whole story. The Charter laid down a real basis for the limitation of all forms of arbitrary power and did enshrine the principle of the supremacy of the law. Once asserted, that principle could not be limited to a privileged few.<br />
My own favourite part is the prohibition on excessive ‘amercements’, or disproportionate and extortionate fines in Clause 20. Clause 20 is perhaps the first clear statement of the proportionality principle in English Law. It may seem obvious. But it was important to state the principle of a need for proportionality in the award of fines and other punishments. It has been shown that this principle, constantly reasserted in later centuries, was the real rationale of the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments in the 1689 Bill of Rights. As advocates in the fields of criminal and administrative law we have constant recourse to this principle and Magna Carta remains a source of inspiration in this.<br />
More recently in the Chagos Islanders case we invoked the principle enshrined in Clause 39 that no one should be sent into exile save by due process of law. So it is a living instrument."
    'Edward Fitzgerald CBE QC'
  • 'Fashion Designer & Artist'
    'Rosemary Goodenough, Artist & Fashion Designer
  • 'Baroness Knight of Collingtree DBE'
  • 'Fashion Designer & Artist'
    'Rosemary Goodenough, Artist & Fashion Designer
  • 'Steven Moffett', Impressario
  • 'Rt. Hon. Lord Healey CH'
  • "A quarrel between the barons and the King 800 years ago might seem to have little relevance to us today. However, one of the greatest ideas which this country has contributed to the world, the idea of the rule of law, can be traced back to Magna Carta. Even the Crown is subject to the law of the land. Today judges sitting in the Administrative Court, hearing applications for judicial review, give practical effect to the rule of law every day.<br />
Although it may seem surprising it is also possible to trace the lineage of the concept of human rights back to Magna Carta. This is why, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt, who chaired the drafting committee, described it as an “international Magna Carta” for all of humanity. However, we have come a long way since 1215. At that time many people were denied basic rights; some were even serfs. In contrast, the Universal Declaration proclaims, in Article 1, that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
    'The Hon Mr Justice Singh'
  • 'Rt. Hon. Lord Howe of Aberavon CH'
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