{"id":1753,"date":"2013-06-20T06:24:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T06:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2013-06-20T08:21:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T08:21:10","slug":"cam-on-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/?p=1753","title":{"rendered":"Cam on Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"

A painting of the late Baroness Thatcher<\/a> hangs over a meeting room in Number 10 Downing Street<\/a>, patterned carpet and locked book cases add to a memory of a place I have been before.
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\nI once had a paltry 8 seconds or… 3 frames to photograph former Prime-minister, Gordon Brown<\/a> in this very room. Two years later; we have a Conservative government and I am back, this time waiting for our current PM, David Cameron<\/a>. Usually, in my world knowledge is power but this time I feared the same fate and enough pressure to make diamonds!
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\nAs the PM was being interviewed by Bloomberg<\/a>, I rolled around on the floor looking for angles as he spoke. After a few minutes his press officer asked me to stop, so I picked myself up and went back to the light I had set up for a portrait at the end of the interview.
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\nWhen the interview finished; Cameron stood, buttoned his jacket and made for the exit. I dashed to his press officer and thankfully she ushered him back in for what turned out to be a leisurely 12 second photo-shoot. After I directed him slightly we talked (briefly) when I mentioned that I\u2019d just driven back into town from another job in Whitney, Oxfordshire, which is his constituency.
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\nOnce he had made his farewells and left the room, it was my first real chance to see what I had got. I looked at the back of my camera… It was sharp… It was well exposed… It was actually pretty good.
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\nSo, what can we gleam from the extra 4 seconds I was allowed with Mr Cameron… not a great deal, but he was certainly more comfortable being photographed than his predecessor.
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\nAll Images are available for editorial use via Bloomberg<\/a>.
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