CHRIS FLOYD shot these beautiful portraits of Dr Jim and Jane Swire for TELEGRAPH.
Their daughter, Flora, was killed on Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over the border town of Lockerbie, 38 minutes after take off from London to New York on 21st December 1988.
Jim and Jane’s experience is documented in LOCKERBIE, a 4-part drama now airing on SKY, exploring what they see as a “35 year-long miscarriage of justice”.
Such poignant portraits - congratulations Chris and all involved.
The wonderful CHRIS FLOYD was commissioned to shoot this series of portraits of KEIR STARMER for the cover of Winter 2023 ESQUIRE, and to accompany a feature by Alex Bilmes on Keir’s “fight to transform his party from repeat election loser to Britain’s next Government”.
Huge thanks to all our amazing team and to Esquire for the commission.
Professional boxer / world Heavyweight champion ANTHONY OLUWAFEMI OLASENI JOSHUA OBE captured in fine fighting form by CHRIS FLOYD for MEN'S HEALTH 👊🏾💥
CHRIS FLOYD recently photographed Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian and activist AI WEI WEI 艾未未 , whose art is variously described as PROFOUNDLY MOVING, POWERFUL, POLITICAL and PROVOCATIVE.
Big thanks to P for the wonderful commission and to all the team who helped create these beautiful and poignant portraits 🙌.
Also featured here is Chris’s image of Ai WeiWei’s TREE (one of several artworks bearing the same name) - “a monumental sculpture assembled from the dry, dead branches, roots and trunks of numerous species of tree, such as camphor, cedar and ginkgo, that Ai Weiwei gathered from across the mountainous southern region of his native China”.
CHRIS FLOYD recently spent a day photographing - and hearing amazing stories from - actor JANE SEYMOUR. She has been in an incredible 100+ movies - achieving early fame playing psychic Bond girl SOLITAIRE opposite Roger Moore’s 007 in “LIVE AND LET DIE”.
Huge thanks to all the team for a wonderful shoot - to Nat Read for styling, Alexis Day for makeup, ‘hurr” by David Wadlow - and of course to SAGA for the lovely commission 🙌
“Hello Boyos!”
Delighted to share these lovely portraits of folk in their pants captured by CHRIS FLOYD as part of his recent commission for PATRICK GRANT and the amazing COMMUNITY CLOTHING.
You can read a brief story of the pants in our previous blog post (here) 🏴 🩲⚡️!
CHRIS FLOYD was commissioned by Sewing Bee judge / Head “Boyo” at COMMUNITY CLOTHING, PATRICK GRANT, to produce this lush film for their new range of 🏴🩲 WELSH PANTS 🩲🏴✨.
Chris and his team filmed in the Welsh valleys and villages - capturing pants along with designers, makers and wearers for the new range of undies!
There’s a really interesting story behind it all…
“Not many people know this, but until not that long ago the best pants in the world were made in Wales - in towns like Aberbargoed, Ystalyfera, Rhymney and New Tredegar.
They made the Wonderbra in Pontllanfraith.
But then one by one the factories closed and a proud manufacturing tradition was lost. But the people and their wonderful skills remain.
Community Clothing makes clothes in 42 factories across the UK. But in the past they have always worked with existing factories, filling spare capacity. Now they’re trying to restart major manufacturing from scratch.
To get production off the ground Community Clothing needs orders. Customers are asked to pre-order through the campaign website and the ambitious brand is hoping to secure orders for 10,000 pieces of underwear.
If the target is reached then Community Clothing will use that to kickstart regular production and it is hoped that this will lead to as many as 50 skilled staff being brought back to the sewing room in the short term. “
Fabulous film 🙌 ! Impeccable pants! (We’ve got ours on pre-order - get yours here!)
We absolutely love these glorious portraits of Man U Women’s skipper Katie Zelem, rocking her Louboutins for You Magazine - captured by Chris Floyd ahead of the Women's World Cup 2023 in Australia + New Zealand.
(England's Lioness’s won 1-0 to Haiti yesterday. Next up is Denmark on Friday!)
Kick it like a girl 👊 🙌 👏 ⚽️ !
CHRIS FLOYD shoots “lovely lovely” / “More than Mr Nice Guy” NIALL HORAN for COSMOPOLITAN 🙌.
With a whopping 32.2M followers on instagram, Niall has just released his 3rd solo album #TheShow on CAPITOL RECORDS and NEON HAZE to universal acclaim.
Big thanks to all the team 🎈
Super happy to share this lovely article on CREATIVE BOOM - “Celebrity photographer CHRIS FLOYD shares six pieces of career advice everyone can learn from.”
“You don't have to work with a camera to learn from world-class photographer Chris Floyd's success. We chat with him about the importance of persistence, why you should trust your instincts, and why relationships are so important.”
Chris describes the moment of his first big break…
“I was in Marks & Spencer buying socks, and he called me to say: 'Can you do a job for us?' And it was the greatest feeling in the world."
It all started there, among the M&S hosiery, and he never looked back! You can read the full article below.
CHRIS FLOYD recently spent several days shooting at the wildly beautiful ZAPATA RANCH near Alamosa, Colorado. A glorious world of “cowgirls, cowboys, horses, cattle, trucks, denim, stetsons, leather goods, steaks, mountain ranges and bison”.
There he met with Kate Matheson, who he used to work with in the early 2000s when she was a picture editor at Conde Nast magazines in London. About 15 years ago she gave it all up, and in her own words, “arrived at the ranch with a suitcase of clothes and a Le Creuset pot, I got my best friend Pepe and my dream truck not long after. I’ll be leaving with a husband, 7 horses, 3 dogs, two babies and a chicken if we can catch her and at least 2 novels worth of stories.”
Next month she is leaving Colorado to move to Montana with her family, where they are taking over the running of her husband’s family’s ranch. Kate is pictured in the last 3 images and you can hear her story on the Ranchlands podcast here.
Fabulous photos Chris! Such a beautiful insight into ranch life in the American midwest.
CHRIS FLOYD has been creating beautiful work for clients BERRY BROTHERS RUDD for several years now. He was recently commissioned to travel to the rolling terroire of the CHATEAU LAFITE vineyard in Bordeaux where he met executive chairwoman Saskia Rothschild and her wonderful team, who together produce the much heralded wines from the estate (which has been in Saskia’s family for 160 years).
Chris felt it was a real privilege to have such extensive access to the estate whilst creating this body of work, and was delighted to be able to capture some beautiful perspectives on the people and the place. We have pleasure in sharing a selection below.
