Amateur Photographer

José Mourinho

In July 2005, I was contacted by a Russian magazine called ProSport. They had contacted Esquire magazine to ask for the name of a good portrait photographer to shoot the then-Chelsea manager, José Mourinho, and Esquire recommended me. We agreed a fee, I hired my assistant, and on the day of the shoot we drove down to the new Chelsea training ground in Cobham, Surrey.

As a football fan, I was

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