I recently had the pleasure of photographing European Tour golfer John Parry in Singapore. My brief was to create a library of photographs of John, both on and off the course, for his website and other marketing/PR use.
John has had a dramatic start to his young professional golf career, earning his PGA card to join the European Tour in 2010 and then, impressively, winning the Vivendi Cup in France during his rookie season.
My shoot with John was at the Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore a few weeks ago. He was en route to Kuala Lumpur to play in the Maybank Malaysian Open, so we only had a few short hours to work together before his flight.
We spent most of our time outside on the tees, fairways and greens shooting a collection of action photographs of John playing. Then we retired indoors to create another series of portrait photographs in and around the clubhouse. The images on the left are from this sequence.
John was extremely friendly and easy-going throughout our short time together, and I enjoyed very much meeting and working with him. At the end of our shoot he even offered me his cap, which he graciously autographed; I will give this to my stepfather, an avid golfer and golf instructor at one of the local courses in my small Canadian hometown.
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