Imagine you are being commissioned by a newspaper, or magazine, to shoot a story in five to seven images. It can be about anything – ideally something local – but the images must tell the story by themselves; be strong enough to carry the narrative. The story can be about a person, a place or a thing. Keep your focus narrow. What matters is to make sure each photograph gets to the essence of what the narrative wants to express.
Quite a challenging brief, although on the surface a simple task its anything but when it comes to putting the images down on the page. In my case the images were taken of London Welsh Rugby Club, also known as The Exiles, as they practised at their borrowed ground in Putney.
In the Premiership but facing relegation, not even having their own ground. I wasnt sure how I would be received and the mood was indeed low but a grim determination was still there. The coach giving the his pep talk and directions, the men giving it their all even though by now the heavens had opened and it was freezing. I could see how much they still cared and cared for each other, they were a team, individually still keen to make their contribution but above all they were still there, still playing, still a team