James Cannon shot this series of photos of Clarke Carlisle as part of a personal project looking at mental health in sport.

James writes....

For 4 years I’ve been trying to get a project together on a subject that I feel hasn’t been explored well in the mainstream media. After reading countless articles of high profile sportsmen and women who have suffered from a mental illness combined with my love of sport and the values it encompasses, I wanted to delve deeper making this new body of work. 
Clarke Carlisle kindly agreed to join me in the studio to collaborate in making a series of portraits to visually represent how it might look / feel to have a mental health illness. A way for him to tell his story visually, as simply as possible in a hope for us to engage and reach out to others.
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On a technical level the movements within the portrait were photographed as one frame in camera. It was important for me to capture real movements and a feeling in camera that could otherwise have easily have been created in post production. Keeping it pure and simple, I wanted the use of colour to set the tone.
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Clarke is the start of a long list of current and ex professional sportsmen and women who suffer, a lot of the time in silence, with a mental health illness. I’ve had word that Marcus Trescothick and other current professional male and female athletes would like to be part of the project. There’s the support of a mental health charity, picture editors, art directors, art buyers and sports brands and I’ve worked tirelessly to find a way to get this project off the ground working with a fantastic journalist.
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Unfortunately though, 4 Arts Council applications were declined with the feedback that there wasn’t “enough evidence of demand for the project”, which is difficult to obtain when the series of 8 portraits needs their support to get completed.
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For now, these three portraits will stay on the website in the hope I can finish telling Clarke’s and a host of other athletes’ stories at another time.
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Jon Enoch, our people and portrait photographer, shot this set of portraits for  celebrity boxing as part of Sport Relief.  To save you Googling them...it's Vanessa White, Camilla Thurlow, Wayne Bridge, Helen Skelton and Spencer Matthews.  But you knew that, right?

Our fantastic food and drink lifestyle photographer Holly Pickering recently did this shoot for vegan patissier and chef Valentina Sois.  Great photos, and great looking cakes!

Our sport and action lifestyle photographer James Cannon shot this great set for the amazing Sport Relief.  We're really proud to be working with such a great organisation.

Our amazing people and portrait photographer Jon Enoch has been shooting Parallax - a great, cost-effective alternative to full video.  You only need one still shot for animation.  We think this execution is great for social and also OOH.