Street Photographer and author of 52 Assignments: Portrait Photography www.duckettphotographer.com

BRIAN LLOYD DUCKETT

Brian Lloyd Duckett

An editorial and commercial photographer, Duckett has worked for many leading newspapers and businesses, but his main passion is street photography. The principal and course tutor at Streetsnappers, a specialist in street photography workshops and tutorials in London and cities across Europe, Duckett has just published his second 52 Assignments book for Ammonite Press.

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A distinctive composition from a shoot with the owner of a classic car.

Brian Lloyd Duckett

Try incorporating gestures – they add emotion and drama to a portrait.

Brian Lloyd Duckett

What first attracted you to photography, and which photographers inspired you when you were starting out?

I was lucky to have a great art teacher who inspired me from an early age.

At school, I convinced myself that the guy with the camera around his neck would be more attractive to girls (not so, sadly). The people I really looked up to were the likes of David Bailey, Lord Snowdon, Norman Parkinson and Patrick Lichfield – all from that golden era in the 1960s and 70s. If I had to name one ’hero’ from the past it would be David Bailey, whose irreverent approach chimed with me.