Sinead O'connor

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Taken in her house just off Westbourne Grove in London, as part of a press session. All the items on the mantle piece were there anyway. This photograph won a Kodak European Gold Award in 1994.

Sinead had been decorating and the walls of her lounge were painted a luminous blue that echoed the colour of her eyes. While I worked she was listening to the final mix of ’Universal Mother’... read more and was miles away.

Part of the Universal Mother press shoot. At the time Sinead and I were both influenced by a Clarissa Pinkola Estes book 'Women who Run with the Wolves'. We did this press shoot and then hatched a far... read more more radical plan to shoot a multi-layered nude shot which involved painting Sinead in blue and making multi exposures. Rockarchive will make this image available for the 10th aniversary tour in autumn 2008.