The following pages display some of the the many magazine covers I published during my photography career. Quite a few covers that I shot for magazines in Europe and the USA during the 1980s have since been lost. After I began publishing my own magazines in 1989 I became almost completely tied into shooting, mass-production style, for my own magazines.
It is the fact that I owned my own publishing house for 20 years that allowed me to publish so many covers. Without that neither I nor most other photographers would ever have a chance of producing so many covers in a lifetime.
What I think these covers display best is the wide range of styles I have engage in over the years, including landscapes, macro, interiors, wildlife, sport, food and people. To succeed as a freelance photographer one must have the flexibility to take on just about any job and deliver what the client expects. Before the era of digital photography this required having a large amount of equipment, and being skilled with it all.
The one thing I have always prided myself on is what you don’t see in my photography, or don’t usually notice. That’s good lighting. Having good lighting equipment wherever you are gives the photographer a huge advantage. I have always carried powerful lighting equipment, slaves and good diffusion tools into the field, no matter where I went. Usually my lighting equipment out weights my camera and lens bags.
Many, many of the cover shots here were successful because I was able to add the right amount of light from the right direction in a manner that ‘made’ the shot without the viewer being aware that artificial light was employed.
John Everingham 