This week's featured f2 profile:  

Dean Chalkley

from Feb/March 2008

"It’s good that you can’t see how long the ladder is: you should only see the next rung or the one after that, because otherwise you might think it’s far too gruelling and do something else."

Freelance mucic photographer Dean Chalkley speaks about beginning his career at Dazed and Confused; how he's built up his business and reputation shooting musicians such as The White Stripes, The Black Kids and the Cure for magazines like the NME; and how he still keeps up with the bands coming out of his hometown, Southend.

This week's featured Starting Out:

Ben Roberts

from Jun/July 2008

“After I’d graduated, I started going to nightclubs, looking for things to shoot. I’d take a studio flash with me, and shoot portraits of people who had some sort of personal style."

Ben Roberts graduated from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth in 2006, then moved to London, where he’s assisted Zed Nelson, as well as taking on a range of clients, from American magazine Fader, to the Royal Town Planning Institute.

This week's featured Turning Pro:

Siobhan Doran

from Feb/March 2008

"With architectural and interior commissioned work, I’m pretty much told what to photograph, but with my personal work, its much more time consuming, and it can take a lot of preparation and research in order to inform the final images."

Initially trained in architectural technology, Siobhan Doran spent over a decade working in building design before undertaking a degree in photography at the University of Westminster.