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David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks.
Book launch for Citizen by Charlie Brooks. Tramp. London. 1 April 2009. An invite arrived through the post to a book launch for Charlie Brooks's book the Citizen from Freud PR. The name of Brook's rang a bell . I knew he was someone in the posh horse world. Curious that Freud's had invited me.- I'm not one of their normal roster of tame photographers. On arriving I learnt that Charlie Brooks was the boyfriend of Rebekah Wade the editor of the Sun. I'd met Rebekah previously. The Sun was one of the first newspapers to publish Maciej Dakowicz's pictures of Cardiff. When I'd complimented her on this she's known exactly who I was talking about and said something about how telling they are as a picture of England. .- She seemed a very good editor. Outspoken Ex-Sun editor Kelvin Mckenzie was there. Simon Kelner, Peter Stothard, Also Will Lewis who at the time was editor of the Telegraph afterwards to go on to work for News International.. I was told that David Cameron ( then leader of the opposition ) was expected. - He duly arrived along with George Osborne. Several photographers were there and an attempt was made to herd us into the downstairs entrance area of the club . We were crowding the entrance so I wandered off into the party. The party was at Tramp the nightclub in St. james's which happens to be quite dark. I was using my Leica ranginder which works well at focussing in low-light. - It doesn't give off an off-putting infra red focussing beam on your subjects. . You don't miss a picture with it. David Cameron was talking to Rebekah Wade. I took a quite unflattering but strong picture where they look interrupted and annoyed.- Then David was led by Rebekah and introduced to a few people. I took another picture of this which was more balanced. Then left them alone and photographed the other guests at the party.Later David Cameron sat down with Madonna's ex-husband Guy Ritchie - This seemed to be the picture that the PR's Ie Mathew Freud had planned and it was pointed out to all the photographers to remind us to do it. A picture of this appeared in the next day's paper . .Although I submitted my pictures to the Independent of Cameron and Wade and also the interesting one of George Osborne, Matthew Freud and Rebekah Wade they were at the time unpublished. My impression was of Cameron and George Osborne paying obeisance to Rebekah.
Dafydd Jones
Book launch for Citizen by Charlie Brooks. Tramp. London. 1 April 2009. An invite arrived through the post to a book launch for Charlie Brooks's book the Citizen from Freud PR. The name of Brook's rang a bell . I knew he was someone in the posh horse world. Curious that Freud's had invited me.- I'm not one of their normal roster of tame photographers. On arriving I learnt that Charlie Brooks was the boyfriend of Rebekah Wade the editor of the Sun. I'd met Rebekah previously. The Sun was one of the first newspapers to publish Maciej Dakowicz's pictures of Cardiff. When I'd complimented her on this she's known exactly who I was talking about and said something about how telling they are as a picture of England. .- She seemed a very good editor. Outspoken Ex-Sun editor Kelvin Mckenzie was there. Simon Kelner, Peter Stothard, Also Will Lewis who at the time was editor of the Telegraph afterwards to go on to work for News International.. I was told that David Cameron ( then leader of the opposition ) was expected. - He duly arrived along with George Osborne. Several photographers were there and an attempt was made to herd us into the downstairs entrance area of the club . We were crowding the entrance so I wandered off into the party. The party was at Tramp the nightclub in St. james's which happens to be quite dark. I was using my Leica ranginder which works well at focussing in low-light. - It doesn't give off an off-putting infra red focussing beam on your subjects. . You don't miss a picture with it. David Cameron was talking to Rebekah Wade. I took a quite unflattering but strong picture where they look interrupted and annoyed.- Then David was led by Rebekah and introduced to a few people. I took another picture of this which was more balanced. Then left them alone and photographed the other guests at the party.Later David Cameron sat down with Madonna's ex-husband Guy Ritchie - This seemed to be the picture that the PR's Ie Mathew Freud had planned and it was pointed out to all the photographers to remind us to do it. A picture of this appeared in the next day's paper . .Although I submitted my pictures to the Independent of Cameron and Wade and also the interesting one of George Osborne, Matthew Freud and Rebekah Wade they were at the time unpublished. My impression was of Cameron and George Osborne paying obeisance to Rebekah.
Dafydd Jones
