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Lisa. “And I get like that with weddings now. I still<br />
get really nervous in the run-up to a wedding, and<br />
I’m nervous because I want to do a really good job.<br />
“And you don’t get a second chance with weddings;<br />
it’s a hell of a lot of responsibility to photograph<br />
someone’s wedding. But then I wake up on the day<br />
and I’m a sea of calm, and I love being that calm<br />
among all the mayhem.<br />
“As a wedding photographer, you’re not just doing<br />
photos; I’ve stuck false eyelashes back on, I’ve danced<br />
with the flower girls, I’ve cleared the dance floor for<br />
the first dance, picked up drunken grannies! You get<br />
stuck in wherever you’re needed and become a part<br />
of the day.”<br />
A career in newspaper photography began at home<br />
in Sutton Coldfield on the local papers, before Lisa<br />
jetted off to the States for the adventure of a lifetime.<br />
“It was a really interesting time,” she says with a<br />
smile. “It was different people every week; normally<br />
you get pigeonholed as a music photographer or a<br />
political photographer but I was lucky enough to do<br />
a bit of everything.<br />
“I did photograph the politicians; I did Hillary<br />
Clinton and Al Gore, and, of course Donald Trump.<br />
I don’t even think of him as photographing the<br />
President; when I photographed him he was the<br />
guy on The Apprentice! It was only about a month<br />
after he came into office that I thought ‘wow, I’ve<br />
photographed the President’.”<br />
While Lisa has taken shots of some of the most<br />
beautiful people in the world, including Nicole<br />
Kidman and Isabella Rossellini, as well as Javier<br />
Bardem and Heath Ledger before his untimely<br />
death - “Heath Ledger was such a lovely guy; it was<br />
just after he’d had his daughter Matilda and he was<br />
amazing,” - there is one<br />
famous face which stands<br />
head and shoulders above<br />
the rest.<br />
“It has to be Sharon Stone,”<br />
she says. “I remember<br />
photographing her at an<br />
event and I think I managed<br />
to take one photo and then<br />
just looked at her! She<br />
is stunning; she has this<br />
amazing glow about her<br />
and I’d love to photograph<br />
her again properly.”<br />
Rapper Ice T proved to be<br />
a particularly interesting<br />
shoot.<br />
“I sat in his apartment and<br />
his wife Coco was a sight to behold - she’s all boobs<br />
and bum and you just couldn’t take your eyes off<br />
her! - and throughout the interview she just sat there<br />
casually scratching his back, because he needed his<br />
back scratching,” laughs Lisa.<br />
“He had these guys with him who were part of a<br />
band he was putting together and whatever he said,<br />
A HAIR-RAISING PHOTO<br />
SHOOT WITH MAGICIAN<br />
DAVID BLAINE<br />
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