Issue20 (Part4) February 2017

Photographer Michael Row (London)
Arrow Photography
Tell us something about yourself
I have lived in London all my life, I work in a very
technical area of IT – about as far away from being
creative as it’s possible to be!
How and when did you get into photography?
My experience with photography was pretty much
the same as everyone else, holiday snaps, maybe
the odd picture of a landmark in a city, really
nothing more. I started to explore a few years ago
with Photoshop and really reached the point where
I wanted to take my own images of models rather
than editing other peoples work. So before about 2
years ago I didn’t own a “proper” camera and had
certainly never taken anything approaching a
decent image
What does photography mean to you?
Photography for me is my creative outlet, it’s my
passion and let’s me ignore all the day to day stuff
that we all have to deal with. I can enter another
world and be someone else for a few hours during
a shoot. So definitely it’s a way to relax and my
way to express myself.
Please briefly describe your photography style
for our readers.
I think my style is best described as “natural”. I
use natural light wherever possible, you will very
rarely find me in a studio shooting a model
against a blank white backdrop, that really isn’t
me. I hope I shoot things that are quirky and
interesting and a little bit different from what a lot
of other people do. I love the use of lens flare
too, so you’ll see a lot of soft colours in my images
and absolutely I’m a huge fan of a very small DOF,
so colours, quirky and soft!
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