Rob Edwards - Premier Manager

Robert Edwards is a professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back and is currently the manager of Premier League club Luton Town. Born in England, he represented Wales internationally.

Edwards began his career with Aston Villa, making his senior debut in the Premier League. He then moved to Midlands neighbours Wolverhampton Wanderers. He helped both Blackpool and Norwich to promotions to the Premier League and featured for Barnsley in the Championship before retiring due to injury in 2013. He played international football for Wales, making his debut in 2004 and winning 15 caps in total. As a sports portrait photographer Rob was a dream to work with.

Portrait of Humanity

An image from my recent series The Candy Men has been published in the latest edition of Portrait of Humanity by Hoxton Mini Press. The image, which is just one from a larger body of work, was shot in Mumbai, India last year. The image shows a local candyfloss (cotton candy) seller with his homemade rig for displaying the candy and attracting a sale. You can see the whole series by clicking on this link www.jonenoch.com/candy-man and you will of course be able to find the book - as they say - in all good bookstores. As an advertising photographer who usually works for a client, it's enormously satisfying and rewarding to shoot personal work like this which is totally in my own vision.

Spears

A recent shoot featuring Andy Coulson. Former Editor of The News of the World who went on to head up comms under the Cameron Conservitive government before becoming embroiled in the phone hacking scandal. As a portrait photographer I get to meet all sorts of people from the worlds of politics, sport and the arts. This was shot for Spears Magazine in central London.

Tag Heuar - George Bamford

Recent shoot for Tag Heuer to promote their newly launched Aquaracer Bamford Limited edition. Designed by George Bamford of the Bamford Watch Department we shot a series of images in West London using design elements of the watch - such as the neon orange. As a commercial photographer it was great to work with a brand with Tag Heuer’s prestige and heritage.

Smithsonian Grand Prize Winner

Happy to share that I have been selected by The Smithsonian Magazine as their Grand Prize winner in their 17th annual photography competition. The editors of Smithsonian Magazine picked over 36,000 entries that were whittled down to 60 finalists.

Bikes of Hanoi was selected as the overall winner, sent in from 145 countries. Categories included: Natural World, American Experience, Travel, People, Altered Images, and Mobile. Coverage included articles in The Atlantic and MyModernMet. As a Photographer working in the advertising and lifestyle sectors its always great to have your work recognised in this way.

Sony World Photography Awards

Hugely honored and excited to share that I have recently been shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards for my Bikes of Hanoi images. The awards are the most prestigious in the world (well I think so) and it's doubly good to get nominated for a project that was - not that long ago - just an idea in my head that I self financed. As a portrait photographer working in the advertising sector it’s alway good when others like your work. You can see the full set of nominated images.

Popular Science Portrait

A recent portrait shoot for US based Popular Science magazine. Shot up near Nottingham featuring Joanna Harper who is conducting academic study into the effects of hormone therapy on athletic performance. A keen runner herself we headed out into the wilds.

Dr Rupy Portraits - lifestyle Portraits

A recent commission for Waitrose to shoot these fun portrait images of Dr Rupy Aujl. Armed with a stack of veg and a willing participant I really enjoyed making these fun images. Shot at Dr Rupys west london creative den where he makes a lot of his recipes and lifestyle content. 

California lifestyle

Here are a few images from my recent travels around California over the Christmas break. San Francisco, LA and Palm Springs via Big Sur and Santa Monica and Santa Barbara...with a bit of a wine stop in Solvang. It's good to take time off but being a lifestyle and advertising photographer the cameras are never far away.

The ERC - Portrait

An interesting recent commission to photograph a portrait of Pete Hutchison of The Electric Recording Company. The company produce hyper-authentic pressings of rare mid-20th-century classical vinyl records. Shot for US based Popular Science. As a portrait photographer Pete’s studio crammed full of the most interesting looking bits of kit was a real treat to work in.

Stand up to Cancer - Celebrity Portrait Shoot

A fun recent shoot for Stand Up To Cancer who decide to dress a number of their celebrity supporters up as trailblazers: people they felt have been pioneers in their particular field. The images received wide speed press attention. As a portrait photographer its great to work on fun shoots like this. Shooting with Sam Thompson, Joe Lycett, Greg Rutherford, Andrea McLean, Maya Jama, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Roisin Conaty, AJ Odudu and Roman Kemp. We shot at The Worx over a number of days and looked after all aspects of the production form styling to post.

Rehearsal Room

London musicians, new portrait photography series:

This week sees the launch of my new portrait photography series, capturing musicians practising outdoors across urban spaces in London. Not everyone wants to live next-door to someone who plays the double bass, the trumpet - or any large and loud instrument for that matter. 

This consideration certainly forces musicians to get creative about their rehearsal space, which increasingly includes outdoor spaces. Studio rents are rising enormously for all creatives, especially in London, as old buildings get sold for office spaces and other developments. With rehearsal spaces becoming more expensive, some musicians use public spaces and parks to get in some of their rehearsal hours. 

I spent the summer finding some of the musicians, who are utilising the corners of parks, tucked away basketball courts and forgotten patches of grass between tower blocks to get their essential practice hours.

The warmer summers, squeeze on creative space and increasing population density all contributes to this growing phenomenon, which has resulted in a really unique set of portraits.

See the BBC featuring the images here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-49719536

Stormtrooper Beer

A recent brand shoot for Stormtrooper beer - a newly launched beer brewed at the St Peter’s Brewery near Norwich. We also shot in The Jerusalem Tavern, Farringdon, London. The images will be used across marketing collateral and across their launch phase - including being picked up by The Telegraph. We created some fun intergalactic lifestyle images.

Croatia

A recent lifestyle travel shoot in Dubrovnic, Croatia for America Airlines. Shooting in and around the old city just as the recent hot spell started: it was hot. The island of Lokrum just off the city provided some relief from the searing heat and was encharting. As a lifestyle photographer I was spoiled for options; go vist, it’s great.

UK Public Health Rapid Support

A recent portrait of Dr. Daniel Bausch Director, UK Public Health Rapid Support Team - shot for Northwestern University in the US. Daniel Bausch is the Director of the United Kingdom’s efforts by Public Health England and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to respond and conduct research to prevent and control outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases around the world. He has over 20 years’ experience in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia combating viruses such as Ebola, Lassa, hantavirus, and SARS coronavirus.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

My recent ‘Bikes of Hanoi’ project contines to pick up attention from around the world. It was recently awarded a Gold at Px3 - Prix de La Photographie Paris - https://px3.fr - it has also made of the cover of Frankfurter Allgemeine’s magazine - images below.

Lionesses - England

A recent image of Phil Neville - head coach of the England womens football team the ‘lionesses’. The team had a great run in the World Cup. As well as shooting Phil up at St Georges Park I also photographed key player Fran Kirby down at Chelsea just before she departed for England squad duties. The sports portrait of Fran were shot on the training pitches.

Darktrace

Latest cover shoot with Director. Shooting Poppy Gustafsson and Dave Palmer founders of cyber security firm Darktrace. We used crumbled multi sheet perspex sheeting and coloured fill lights to add some intrigue to the portrait set up. 

Caius Joseph

A few test image from a little play around in the studio and the estates of Peckham –  a few weeks back – with Caius Joseph from W Models. As a advertising photographer its always good to have a play around without a client brief.

COUPA

A recent shoot for Coupa of their CEO Rob Bernshteyn. Coupa Software is a global technology platform for business spend management. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California with offices throughout the Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Rob is the perfect subject for any portrait photographer.