Over the years, I have photographed scores of personalities and celebrities from the world of arts, culture and entertainment. The highlight has been the annual Edinburgh International Book Festival, the world's largest literary event, with its diverse collection of authors, playwrights, commentators and critics from across the world in attendance.
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96 imagesThe 2000 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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232 imagesThe 2001 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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413 imagesThe 2002 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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699 imagesThe 2003 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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652 imagesThe 2004 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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42 imagesThe 3rd Liverpool Biennial, staged in 2004. The international festival of contemporary art stages events throughout Liverpool and runs from September 18 to November 2010. The 2008 event attracted 975,000 visitors and was the largest contemporary arts festival in the UK.
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27 imagesAction from FA Cup first round tie between Unibond Premier Division side Burscough (green) and Coca-Cola League One team Gillingham, at Victoria Park, which the Burscough won 3-2.
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750 imagesThe 2005 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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696 imagesThe 2006 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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62 imagesThe International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) ceremony at the Hallam Arena in Sheffield for the annual IIFA awards. The awards were known as the 'Bollywood Oscars' and ran from 7-10th June. They were watched by an estimated global television audience 500 million people.
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575 imagesThe 2008 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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37 imagesThe 5th Liverpool Biennial, staged in 2008. The international festival of contemporary art stages events throughout Liverpool and runs from September 18 to November 2010. The 2008 event attracted 975,000 visitors and was the largest contemporary arts festival in the UK.
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43 imagesIn 2008, Liverpool was European Capital of Culture with a year of cultural celebrations taking place across the city.
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8 imagesArtist and sculptor David Nash, pictured with his creation entitled "Ash Dome" near his home in Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales. "Ash Dome", planted as saplings in 1977, is now a mature dome centred on a plot of woodland, Nash's 'laboratory' for growing works and a place for thinking.
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667 imagesThe 2009 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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624 imagesThe 2010 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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15 imagesThe 6th Liverpool Biennial, staged in 2010. The international festival of contemporary art stages events throughout Liverpool and runs from September 18 to November 2010. The 2008 event attracted 975,000 visitors and was the largest contemporary arts festival in the UK.
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374 imagesThe 2011 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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554 imagesThe 2012 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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387 imagesThe 2013 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.
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472 imagesWriters, authors, journalists, critics, poets, playwrights... and photographers attend the 31st annual Edinburgh International Book Festival. Here is my collection of the best of this year's event in portraits.
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26 imagesAround 1600 pipers, dancers and other musicians from across the world took place in Pipefest Stirling, which was held in the city of Stirling in central Scotland to coincide with the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, which took place in the year 1314 in nearby Bannockburn.
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59 imagesThe final of the iSessions, a competition run by the iPaper for bands from universities across the United Kingdom. The final was staged at Gorilla in Manchester and the winning band was Man Like Nells from the University of Westminster.
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50 imagesScottish sculptor Andy Scott, pictured at his workshop in Maryhill, Glasgow, during the construction of his memorial sculpture to Scotland's steel men, which will be located at Ravenscraig, Lanarkshire in spring 2015.
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34 imagesStockport band Blossoms, pictured in a scaffolders' yard in the town. The guitar pop band have come fourth on the BBC Sound of 2016 list, which highlights the hottest new acts for the new year. The five members, who were all born in the same Stockport hospital, formed in 2013 and have honed their sound by rehearsing in their bassist's granddad's scaffolding yard take their name from a local pub. The group are comprised of: Tom Ogden, vocals, Charlie Salt, bass, Josh Dewhurst , lead guitar, Joe Donovan, drums and Myles Kellock, keyboards.
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25 imagesBritish television screenwriter and director Russell T Davies, pictured in Manchester. Stephen Russell Davies, OBE (born 27 April 1963), is better known by his pen name Russell T Davies, is a Welsh television producer and screenwriter whose works include Queer as Folk, Bob & Rose, The Second Coming, Casanova, the 2005 revival of the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who, and the trilogy Cucumber, Tofu, and Banana. He is currently working on a BBC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, due to be released in 2016.
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13 imagesFeatures and portraits of artists, creative people, those who enrich our culture through the visual arts.
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250 imagesA compendium of authors, writers, poets, novelists and journalists photographed across the country and down the years.
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199 imagesA compendium of musicians photographed across the country and down the years.
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180 imagesA compendium of celebrities and stars photographed across the country and down the years.