Tom Waits innit

Terry Richardson innit

Leonardo DiCaprio

Annie Leibovitz photographs Leonard DiCaprio

Annie Leibovitz photographed Leonardo DiCaprio for Vanity Fair's second annual "green" issue, and to promote DiCaprio's environmentalism documentary, The 11th Hour.

Photographs by Kathyrn MacLeod

Annie Leibovitz Photographs Barack Obama

Annie Leibovitz photographs Senator Barack Obama for Men's Vogue in September 2006.

Annie Leibovitz

The White Stripes, New York City, 2003

Mary J. Blige, New York City, 1999

Angelina Jolie

Black Acting Talent

Three of my favourite British actors photographed by Donald MacLellan for the National Portrait Gallery in an exhibition celebrating black British film stars.


Naomie Harris. The Cambridge educated British actress who was brilliant as the eponymous Poppy Shakespeare (for Channel 4, the adaptation of Clare Allen's novel).

Sophie Okenedo who has been brilliant in numerous things. In Scenes of a Sexual Nature, in Tsunami: The Aftermath, Oliver.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, the Nigerian hottie and star of Children of Men, Kinky Boots and Dirty Pretty Things amonsgt things.

The Genius of Rimsky-Korsakov

Portrait of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov by Ilya Repin. 1893.

Portrait of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov by Valentin Serov. 1898.

Portraits of Proust

Marcel Proust by Nadar.

Quote Mamontov

The above portrait of the arts patron, railway director and merchant, Savva Mamontov, is by Ilya Repin (1880).


The above statue of Savva Mamontov is at Sergei Posad Station Square, Moscow, TRS.


"The eyes of the people must be trained to see beauty everywhere, in streets and railway stations" - Savva Ivanovich Mamontov (15 October 1841 - 6 April 1918).

Jude Law Hubba Hubba

David Bailey

Above, David Bailey's (1938-) photograph: John Lennon and Paul McCartney, from an exhibit entitled Box of Pin Ups, 1965.

Above, self portrait with Rudolf Nureyev.

Above, is Jane Birkin by David Bailey, March 1969.

Some Ryan Phillippe

Old School Ryan. Mushroom Head.

At the 2007 Oscars.