BREAD & SHUTTER has spent the last 20 years in training. Not at university, school or college, but on film sets, TV shows and adverts. He lights sets with enormous tungsten movie lights, HMIs and Kino Softlights. He’s as East End as cockles and jellied eels, as down to earth as they come and his photographic icon is, not surprisingly, the late, great Terence Donovan.

However it’s only since April last year that he decided he wanted to add stills photography to his professional CV – and that was only after some persuasion by The Son of GeoffRey Archer, william, while on a set William was directing. In less than a year Barry has gone from strength to strength through a combination of being in the right place at the right time and good old fashioned hard work. You may think he is an opportunist, taking advantage of the experience of being on huge film set productions such the Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies”, but you would be wrong. He grasps every opportunity with everything he has uses that experience and works 100% to use this to his advantage to produce work with stunning results.

His Photography career started far earlier taking amazing underwater shots on his Nikonis 5 film camera, in his spare time, just for fun. In fact it was this website, www.breadandshutter.com that has given him the kick start he desperately wanted and needed. It’s a website he has spent hundreds of hours developing, sitting at his desk at home building it, night after night. “I was on a very tight budget and couldn’t afford to pay someone to create a site for me. Anyway, I am not the sort who relies on others too much; I’m very much a hands-on, “learn by the seat of your pants” kind of person..........and that includes my photography too,” admits Barry. It’s this go-getter attitude, combined with his determination to succeed that has finally given him the upper hand in his career.

Other day job: Lighting gaffer for film and TV.

Gear: Nikon D2X (spare), D700 and Nikonis 5 Underwater film camera

I Never leave home without My iPod: “I use it for every shoot I am on

to get myself and the people I’m shooting chilled”.