RIP sir Tom Stoppard… brilliant writer, aged 88. I got to photograph him on a cold dark late evening in January 2008. © David Sandison #tomstoppard #davidsandison #playright

Prunella Scales.. RIP. I was lucky enough to meet, photograph and have a cup of tea with the wonderful Prunella Scales at her home in south London. What a lovely, entertaining and down to earth person she was. She was best known for playing Sybil Fawlty in the BBC television sitcom Fawlty Towers.

I recently got to photograph Baron Maurice Glasman the English political theorist, academic, social commentator, and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is best known as the founder of Blue Labour, a term he coined in 2009. #mauriceglasman #politicalportrait #portraitphotography #portrait

Alan Yentob who I photographed at the BBC in 2014 has passed away.. He was 78 years old.. Unboughtedly one of TV’s creative giant and one of Britain’s most influential TV executives and presenters. @ayentob1 #yentob #alanyentob #bbc #monoportrait #davidsandisonYentob

My Lola and Leo the Lurchers..

RIP.. Val Kilmer! I got to meet and photograph him a while ago.. very nice polite guy!

Athol Fugard A giant, a legend in his South Africa and around the world! The great South African playwright Athol Fugard is dead I was lucky to get to meet and photograph him as a young photographer in South Africa and then again later in London! What a voice he had! .. RIP Athol Fugard

R.I.P. Jack Vettriano.. the artist who I photographed in his studio/apartment in London in 2009. It has been announced that on 1 March 2025, Vettriano was found dead at his apartment in Nice, France. #jackvettriano #jackvettrianoofficial #davidsandison #rip

John Micklethwait is a British journalist who is the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. He was previously the editor-in-chief of The Economist from 2006 to 2015. Photographed in his office at the Economist.

© photograph by David Sandison

Omid Djalili is a British Iranian stand-up comedian and actor.

© photographs by David Sandison

Luke Treadaway.. English actor. © David Sandison

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In 2002 I got to meet and photograph the fascinating, entertaining, sexy legend Marianne Faithfull.. (birthday 29 December 1946) passed away yesterday 30 January 2025) So….so Long Marianne!! RIP! #mariannefaithfull #solongmarianne #davidsandison #ledgend #rip

I twice got to photograph the very talented actor Stephen Tompkinson.. 2008 and 2004.. He starred in DCI Banks, Wild at Heard, Drop The Dead Donkey, Brassed Off amongst many others.. #stephentompkinson #actor #davidsandison #portrait #mono #monochrome #wildatheart #dcibanks #brassedoff