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<span class="text"><font color="#666666" class="text"> <p><!--StartFragment--></p> <p><!--StartFragment--></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">My love of photography began when I was about twelve walking for miles in the fields and countryside of my village in Scotland. I was fascinated and entranced by the sense of heightened awareness that looking for pictures gave me.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">Slicing and stealing a moment in time to admire later always seemed like some kind of special magic to me and its what continues to fuel my passion for photography today.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">I love to create an atmosphere or situation where people, motion, energy and time converge and the images just flow.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:22.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">One of the great things about shooting is that it offers a gateway into other worlds.</span></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Swimming with humpback whales in Vava’u, Tonga.</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "> A calf, just weeks old, brushed me with his tail fluke as he swished past to get a better look at my camera. His mother, who was the size of a double-decker bus, came within inches of me and rolled her curious calf away with the greatest gentleness and respect I have ever seen.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Being rescued by an amazing lifeguard Baywatch style in San Diego </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">whilst shooting in the surf, after being dragged seemingly miles out by a really wide, fast riptide, with heavy underwater camera gear around my neck. I lay on the surfboard like a wet seal as she stood and surfed me to shore.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Photographing, feeding and being bumped by circling sharks </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">with Bond movie stuntwoman Michelle Cove, seventy feet under the Caribbean.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Being driven crazily around the streets of Red Bank, New Jersey shooting Kevin Smith</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "> in a parallel car. As we screeched around with him driving and hanging out of the window, a portrait session turned into an action movie still. He loved the shot for Arena and chose it for the cover of his autobiography.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Sitting with David Lynch in his home cinema in Beverly Hills,</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "> talking about his passion for transcendental meditation and peace palaces.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Getting a request from a very special ape called Chantek</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "> for a bottle of 'good water' when I took a break from shooting a story for the Sunday Times Magazine, about an orangutan taught to sign and raised as a human baby. He will always be one of my favourite shoots.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Being photographed by Tony Blair </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">after receiving three national photography awards from him.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Watching and photographing a pair of courting Tufted Coquettes in Trinidad</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">. A dazzling little hummingbird, the most stunning birds I have encountered.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;text-align:center; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Clients:</span></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span lang="EN-US">BP International, Emirates Airlines, Aegis Group, Diageo, Guiness, Estée Lauder, Iris London, Wonderbra, Universal Music, McCann-Erickson, Hyperion Books, European Space Agency, Platinum Guild International, Rubenstein NY, The David Leadbetter Golf Academy, Scottish Power.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Marie Claire, The Daily Telegraph - London, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Times, The Times Magazine, Geographical Magazine, New Scientist, Elle Italia, Hello, Stern, Spectrum, Playboy, Glamour, Facts Switzerland, Observer, Science et Vie, British Airways High Life magazine.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-align:center; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "> Based in London +44 (0) 7799 605 580</span></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Optima-Regular; color:#666666"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p> </p></font></span><br> <h1> Stuart Conway Photographer Bio</h1>
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