Jay Mawson | Photographer

05/06/2023

https://www.jaymawson.co.uk/blog/on-the-art-of-personal-branding-for-photographers

A blog post discussing the importance of personal branding for photographers

19/06/2018

Sorry Manchester, we borrowed the sun for a bit. BRB...☀️ @ Marina di Scarlino

31/01/2018

http://www.jaymawson.co.uk/blog/swimsuitphotography

The Rotherham - California Scale Within the last year we’ve had the good fortune to visit both the Caribbean and the Maldives. I shot a small test swimwear fashion editorial in each location. I mean - you would wouldn’t you. Given the choice between filling your swimwear portfolio with a blue ti...

08/07/2017

It's that great sporting time of year again - Wimbledon. @ Table Mountain National Park

05/07/2017

The beautiful for the Tati X NOA collaboration with | 💫

02/06/2017

http://www.jaymawson.co.uk/blog/trekpak

I was at a party last night. A 70th birthday celebration for somebody I’ve known since before I can remember. The birthday girl’s four grandchildren were there and she wanted a photograph of them all together. Of course, I’d not taken my camera - the same way the guy who worked in IT hadn’t ta

24/08/2016

http://www.jaymawson.co.uk/blog/filter-bubble

I guess I’ve been doing this long enough now to recognise trends and
cycles. I consume enough media to distill & filter images into basic
categories. If it’s a widely accepted truth that all stories are based on
seven basic plots, then all the editorials I currently see are based on
just one...

12/06/2016

http://www.jaymawson.co.uk/blog/iceland-trip-2

There are two places that I’ve visited this year that crept up on me
slowly, hit me hard and now have a strangle hold on my heart and my mind.
Cape Town was the first, Iceland the second. Neither place grabbed my
imagination immediately. My first Iceland post below bears that out…had it
been...

16/05/2016

http://www.jaymawson.co.uk/blog/iceland-trip

Very soon there will be a new class of tourism. You’ll be picked up by the self-driving Uber and driven to the airport where the self-piloting airplane will fly you somewhere that allows you to hire a car from 2016 and have the pleasure of actually driving yourself. That ‘somewhere’ will be Iceland....

09/05/2016

http://www.jaymawson.co.uk/blog/ontravel

New blog post. It's been a while...

I can’t speak with absolute certainty, but I’m fairly sure that when your dentist takes his annual vacation she doesn’t pack her drill. That your favourite barista leaves their Gaggia behind. The Uber driver parks his Avensis at the airport. I can’t think of many other professions where leisure trav...