Johnny Borrell by Lula Camus

On this photograph, Johnny is only nineteen. It was his first ever press picture and it happened in February 2000.

I had no idea what Johnny looked...

On this photograph, Johnny is only nineteen. It was his first ever press picture and it happened in February 2000.

I had no idea what Johnny looked like when his manager played me his demo and asked me to take some photographs of him, so when he turned up on the day of the shoot, I thought ‘This is going to be easy!’ He looked fantastic with his cowboy hat and boots and his young, fresh face.

We went on the roof of the building where his manager was living on Brick lane and I took pictures while he was playing guitar.

At that time Johnny was a solo artist deeply influenced by Bob Dylan. He formed Razorlight many years later but already had a strong personal conviction that he was the best.