Simon Lynge Photo Shoot

I met up with Simon Lynge today at the station near my home. He is the first Eskimo (Inuit) to have an album released in the UK. It came out on Monday on LoMax records. It's called " The Future" After fantastic reviews in the Times and many other papers in the UK the BBC got hold of him. They had him in as a guest on their flagship BBC1 Breakfast show on Monday morning. Then he was approached by Sky News and others radio stations for interviews. Anyway, we set off and started taking some shots as soon as he arrived.

Simon Lynge Copyright 2010 Danny Clifford

Then after a while we headed off for a spot of lunch at the Peppermill a favourite of a of us locals. At lunch where we were joined by my wife and friends, Jill Visser and then by the one and only Mick Flinn (New Seekers etc). We then got back to taking photos.
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I had a few locations in mind and then we headed to a more studio based domestic shoot, which is where we shot Simon with the Hofner Guitar. He had no idea that Hofner were now back in the game and making such great guitars. I think he was rather impressed with it.
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Simon's album is fantastic. His music is somewhere between Jack Johnson and Paul Simon, yet he is stunningly original. He grew up in Greenland and now lives in a quite coastal town just above Seattle, USA. I must say that he is one of the nicest people I have photographed as well as one of the most talented.