Freelance profile

Colin McPherson (Colin McPherson)

Covering the north of England and Wales, Colin McPherson is one of the country's leading photojournalists working on the major news stories and features for clients which include many of the top newspapers and magazines in Europe. Colin McPherson offers top-quality, fully-digital photography with the ability to transmit pictures to deadline from any location. An extensive archive of news and features material covering the last decade is also available.

Contact details:

Town: Liverpool, Merseyside,
Region/nation: North West
Country: United Kingdom
Website: http://www.colinmcpherson.com
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Mobile: 07831 838717

Skills:

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PhotographerRates: Photography
from the Freelance Fees Guide.

Subjects:

  • Current affairs
  • Environment and conservation
  • Arts/entertainment
  • Business and commerce
  • Travel/tourism
  • Politics
  • Royalty
  • Sport
  • Public relations

Major clients:

  • Getty Images
  • The Guardian
  • The Times
  • The Observer
  • When Saturday Comes

Profile last updated: 2017-01-19 17:19:57


Extra information:

Based near Liverpool, Colin McPherson is one of the country's leading photojournalists working on the major news stories and features in the United Kingdom and abroad. Clients include many of the top newspapers and magazines in Europe and since 1996 Colin McPherson has been a contributing editorial photographer with the leading international Corbis-Sygma agency for whom he has covered many major important events from the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis in Cumbria and south-west Scotland to a series of portraits of writers at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Since 1995 Colin McPherson has worked as a regular contributing freelance photographer for the Independent on Sunday, Guardian, Observer and Independent newspapers, working alongside journalists on breaking stories such as the Dunblane massacre, Scottish and UK elections as well as documenting the changing lives of Scotland's farming, fishing and crofting communities. Experience and creativity are brought to subjects as diverse as politics, conservation and the environment, arts and entertainment and business and commerce. Colin McPherson offers top-quality, fully-digital photography with the ability to transmit pictures to deadline from any location. An extensive archive of news and features material covering the last decade is also available. Colin McPherson works closely on a freelance basis with a number of highly-respected writers and journalists and exclusive words-and-pictures packages and story ideas are often ongoing. Colin McPherson stages exhibitions of black-and-white photography featuring aspects of traditional working life and practices in Scotland with framed pictures available for sale. Major stories and areas of specialisation include: Scotland's salmon industry; the regeneration of the river Mersey; the Edinburgh International Book and Film Festivals; the destruction of the Amazon rainforest; Scotland's Parliament; crofting; Scottish and UK politics; the last German Jews of Israel. Colin McPherson is bilingual (English and German).