Andy’s decade plus of editorial experience in the luxury sector has seen him take craft photography including bespoke tailors, shirt makers, shoe makers, distilleries, cooperages, cloth mills, jewellers and gunsmiths across the UK, Europe and the Far East. He has photographed the best of the British craft sector and hosted the tour of Savile Row during the inaugural London Craft Week.

Craft photography

Bespoke

Andy’s photography career started on Savile Row, the famous Mayfair street in central London, world-renowned as the historic heart of traditional men’s bespoke tailoring and the birthplace of the term “bespoke”. Suits begot sartorial splendor and Jermyn Street, the epicenter of traditional British menswear, including shirts, shoes, ties, and leather goods.

Taken behind the scenes at bespoke and luxury artisans, Andy’s craft photography offers attention to detail, showing the skill, dedication, and time that goes into hand made products to ensure their high quality and longevity.

Andy has photographed the birthplaces which create the British gentleman. His images tell a timeless story of historic skills passed down through generations and, hopefully, for generations to come.

Craft photography of bespoke shoe workshop

Man hand making bespoke pair of shoes in workshop

Bespoke shirt maker working at a bench with shop in background

Clothing components laid on top of each other

Two shoe makers each making a pair of bespoke shoes

Woman sitting on a bench next to a window while stitching an item of clothing

Bespoke wooden shoe last on a work bench under a lamp

Tailor measuring a man's shoulders in front of a mirror

Room full of wooden shoe lasts stored on shelves

Bespoke tailors working under skylit with suit patterns hanging in the rafters

Plastic shoe lasts on shoe factory shop floor

Tan brogue boot without laces on worktop bench with tools

Beige safari jacket on a clothes hanger hanging on a green door

Suit pattern next to mannequin with bespoke suit

Two pairs of shoe uppers shaped over lasts prior to being soled in a shoe factory

Bespoke tailor at work bench chalking up a pattern on a piece of cloth

Photographing the makers and marques behind the world's most enduring objects of desire

The Perfect Gentleman

Savile Row

The historic heart of traditional men’s bespoke tailoring and the birthplace of the term “bespoke”.

Scotland

Home to Scottish whisky, also known as Scotch, globally renowned for its authenticity and centuries-old craftsmanship.

Jermyn Street

The historic one-way street in the St James's and epicenter of traditional British gentleman’s styling.

North England

Home to the historic textile mills shaped the Industrial Revolution, which turned Yorkshire and Lancashire into the world’s leading centers for cotton, wool, and worsted production.

Northampton

The generational expertise of shoemaking with skills, tools, and bespoke techniques passed down from father to son.

Pile of leather with bald man using a cutting die in the background

Bespoke shotgun butt on worktop surrounded by tools

Woman with red nails inspecting a pen nib with a loupe

Bespoke shotgun barrel under construction

Cufflinks being crafted in a workshop under a flame

Weaving

From bespoke suits and shirts, it was not a far cry for Andy to complete the story of sartorial excellence and trace the cloth and material used on Savile Row and Jermyn Street back to the mills and looms where they were woven. Andy has photographed the warp and the weft of the Harris Tweed cottage industry in the Hebrides, where every single length must be handwoven by independent local weavers at their own homes on treadle looms rather than in a factory. He has captured the density of the looms of Antico Setificio Fiorentino, legendary historic silk workshop located in the San Frediano district of Florence, established in 1786. In keeping with British tradition Andy's craft photography portfolio includes British Millerain, the global leader in specialist textiles and paraffin-based waxed cotton finishing since 1880 as well as Johnstons of Elgin, one of the last remaining vertical mills in Scotland, who handle every single step—from dyeing and blending to spinning, weaving, and finishing—in-house at its Elgin and Hawick mills. Andy has photographed Royal Warrant holders and worsted wool weavers Huddersfield Fine Worsteds, in northern England, who produce iconic cloths like Fresco (a famous high-twist, crease-resistant travel wool). And prior to closing in 2020 Andy photographed the looms at Vanners in Sudbury, the silk company which traded for almost 250 years.

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Hands tying a knot unthread over a manual wooden loom

Shuttle sitting on a half woven piece of cloth on a wooden loom

Person conducting quality control on a piece of yellow cloth

Yarn of white thread over a loom with tenterhooks in the background.

Metal frame holding yarns of thread leading to a loom

Spiderweb of threads in a fabric mill attached to a loom

Newly woven piece of cloth on a loom ready for quality inspection

Large roll of threads in a cloth factory

Renaissance yarns of thread in a historic cloth mill

Yarns of different coloured thread mounted on a wall above a woman at a sewing machine

Spools of green thread sitting in a cradle in a renaissance era loom

Wooden bolts of cloth with different patterns of material wrapped around them

Thread being woven into a pattern on a loom

View of countryside and hills through a factory window

Renaissance era cloth loom with spools of white thread under a fluorescent light

Colourful threads in a fabric mill attached to a loom

Tweed being woven on a manual wooden loom

Striped black and white fabric being woven on a loom under a skylight

Newly woven fabric rolling off the end of a loom

Spiderweb of red thread in a fabric mill

Empty thread rolls in a trolley in a cloth mill

Loom weaving colourful threads into a pattern