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STILL LIFE

© ANDREW SYDENHAM

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From his studio at Blackrock in Dublin Bay,
Tony Hurst has produced beautiful and iconic
Nikon product shots for nearly three decades.

Andrew Sydenham travels over the water to
Ireland to uncover the secrets of his success

ony Hurst has been an for his company’s adverts. The rest, Tony Hurst seated in
avid camera collector as they say, is history, and Tony has the studio with his
for years. With his a been photographing Grays’ product Nikon D3 and studio
T particular fascination shots ever since. All this took place camera stand
for Nikon models, it was logical some 25 years ago, and now Tony’s
that Tony would soon beat a path photographs are so admired and
to the long-established Grays of well known that the celebrated
Westminster in London, which photographer and film director
sells new and secondhand Nikon Terence Donovan once told Gray
cameras, cases and accessories. At Levett that Tony Hurst is a genius.
that time, Tony had already started As with many prominent A selection of
photographing his own camera photographers, Tony’s passion for W-Nikkor lenses
styled in a sardine
collection, rapidly developing his photography began at an early age. can with a Nikon
own unique style, when Grays of When he was just 12 years old, he w-Nikkor.C 1:2.5
Westminster owner Gray Levett could be found tinkering with a f3.5cm in the
asked him to photograph something folding Kodak camera and foreground

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