An intimate close-up of Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal dancer Tyrone Singleton by Canon Ambassador Clive Booth. "I met Tyrone at The Photography Show in 2017," explains Clive. "An accomplished photographer himself, he had attended one of my talks on the Canon Live stage and we struck up a friendship. We've since collaborated on several ambitious photographic projects." Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 50mm F1.2L USM lens at 1/160 sec, f/2.2 and ISO100. © Clive Booth
After 20 years as a graphic designer, Clive Booth decided to follow his lifelong ambition of becoming a photographer and filmmaker. The British Canon Ambassador is now in constant demand for his atmospheric fashion, beauty and portrait imagery.
Not only is Clive Booth a celebrated photographer and filmmaker but he's also still a practising graphic designer. "I like to think of myself as a designer with a camera," he says. "In the early 90s, I had shot stills and films for the Royal Geographic Society in the High Arctic, among polar bears and icebergs. I also worked as a cameraman for BBC TV, and in particular [British children's TV show] Blue Peter, but I never went professional; it was simply down to a lack of confidence. I had commissioned and art-directed photographers for years until finally, in 2003, a chance event changed my life."