David Emery Online

In print

16 January 2008

Today I’m going to grasp the chance to big myself up with both hands; it doesn’t happen that often so I feel I should make the most of it.

If next week you pop down to your local music retailer to buy a copy of the wonderful debut Adele album, ‘19’, you may notice a familiar name in the credits.

If you then turn to page 17 of the booklet you’ll see why, as one of my photos of her at the Scala in June has been used.

Obviously in person I will try and play it down, but quite honestly this is actually quite a big thing for me. I’ve always been interested in photography, but up until this year I’ve never really tried to do it in any serious way mostly because I thought I was not really very good at it. This is a real validation for me that while I’m obviously not some amazing photographer it is worth the effort.

It’s doubly special (and hence almost scary) because this isn’t some small indie album, it’s an album that will quite probably go to number 1 and be manufactured hundreds of thousands of times.

I’ll return to posting something slightly less self-obsessed tomorrow.