Marc Provins

Some shouty street shots.

An extra little blog post to help see out the month of March and usher in April and hopefully spring. A few weeks ago I made some portraits of a young writer called Furquan Akhtar, it was very much a collaboration with him providing the clothes and style. We managed to create an impromptu studio in the box room which acts as my workspace, using Manchester's finest daylight and the chimney breast as a backdrop. So here is my favourite picture from the shoot which I'm posting by way of saying a public congratulations to Furquan as he won the BBC's Alfred Bradley Bursary Award on Saturday. You can find out more about the award here: BBC Writer's Room You can also follow Furquan's writings here: Huffington Post

Apologies if I over-blog this week, it might be cold but it is great light and I'm not at work, so walks with my camera are the order of the day. I'd taken these two pictures within 10 minutes of leaving the house, and strangely when I took them I was only really seeing the red. It was only when I got back that I saw the red and blue in both images. Sorry if you were expecting something about football... wrong blog.