Always lovely to be commissioned for a photography job but some definitely have a particular 'hard to turn down' allure - do you ever work in Tuscany? Can you photograph our castello near Sienna? We're looking for an interiors photographer for a project near Jaipur... And so it was when the brilliant Martin Hulbert Design team wondered if I had the time to document their work at a private villa on a Greek Island - um yeah sure...
The villa was perched over an impossibly pretty bay in the hills, with views across to Albania - a mere eight miles away; steeply terraced gardens filled with Bougainvillea and Lantana were by talented garden designer Julie Toll who coincidentally I've worked with before. Having also worked with Martin on other occasions, I knew the house would be equally breathtaking and so it proved to be - the only problem being how to capture it all in the allotted time. Fortunately, as we had a full team on hand from his London studio (similarly pleased to be on site), it worked out well.
The week ended with a trip to Corfu Town (Kérkyra) - a jewel of a place with its Byzantine and Venetian influences - watching a cricket match cold beer in hand in the large square, the Spianáda, as thousands of raucous swifts ricocheted above. Well, someone's gotta do it...
Interior images to follow ;-). Please do get in touch if you’d like me to travel far and wide for you (I’m off to Le Marches in Italy later this month for Appassionata Property… another tough gig I suspect ;-)