London Alt Fashion Week: From The Pit

Last month, I saw a job posting requiring a photographer with experience shooting runway. Photographers whose portfolios did not contain examples of their previous runway work need not apply, the advert said. And so I made it my mission that, the next time a company offered $500 a day for some runway shots, I’d have no problem submitting my meager little portfolio. That’s how I found myself in the pit at London’s Alternative Fashion Week, jostling elbow to elbow with the other members of the press (um, let’s gloss over how I got into said pit…), my camera at the ready.

The photos came out fabulously, and I was showing them to my housemates the next day when I, um, sold them. My housemate’s fiance owns a magazine, and he happened to walk into the room and ask what we were looking at. Conveniently, the magazine went to press two days later. Containing my pictures. Here are a few (low-res versions) that didn’t make the cut: