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Talking Pictures - by Michael Birt

Talking Pictures is a fascinating personal project undertaken by Michael, who is recognised as one of the most significant and entertaining photographers of his generation.

Since 1980 Michael has captured many famous people and celebrities with his magical camera. During those sittings each of the subjects happily provided a quotation about life and its vagaries that will run in tandem with these exciting and often provocative pictures.

Talking Pictures - All of the celebrities listed below were photographed between 1990-2003,

Harrison Ford, Hugh Grant, Sir Michael Caine, Whoopi Goldberg, Russell Crowe, Liz Hurley, Martin Sheen and West Wing Cast, James Woods, Kyle MacLachlan, Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), James Coburn, Richard Harris, Piper Perabo (The 1 Inside, Coyote Ugly), Gina Gershon (Show Girls, Prey for Rock and Roll 2003), Hugh Jackman (Sword Fish, X-Men, Van Hesling 2004), Giovanni Ribisi (Gone in Sixty Seconds, Boiler Room, Sopia Ford Coppola?s, Lost in Translation 2003. In The World of Tomorrow with Jude Law, Paltrow, and Jolie release 2004.), Huggy Bear (Starsky and Hutch), Sir John Mills, Frank Skinner, Peter Berg ( Chicago Hope, Very Bad Things), Sarah Polley (The I Inside -2003, Dermott?s Test-2003, Fast Food High-2003, Go-1999, Event-2003, Timothy Spall, John Thomson, Dennis Quaid, Vinnie Jones, Barbara Windsor, Janet McTeer, Amy Brenneman (US Actor 5 Emmy Noms for Judging Amy), Peter O?Toole, Adam Garcia, Ben Kinsley, Sir Ian McKellen, Sean Patrick Thomas, James Fox, Matthew Hollander, Quentin Tarantino, M Night Shyamalan (Sixth Sense), Martin Amis, Tom Wolfe Ben Younger (Boiler Room), Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt), Kimberly Pierce (Boys Don?t Cry), Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick (Traffic, Last Samurai 2003), Polish Twins (Twin Falls Idaho, Jackpot, ID, and Northfork. 2004), Joe Eszterhas (Writer Basic Instinct), Malcolm D Lee (Undercover Brother), Jim Knipfel (Quitting the The Nairobi Trio, Buzzing 2003), Salman Rushie, David E Kelly (Producer, Writer Ally McBeal, LA Law) , Mike Leigh, Simon Schama, Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliott, The Hours), Charles Webb (The Graduate), Sir Laurens van der Post, Aaron Sorkin (Producer/Writer West Wing), James Atlas (US Writer, NYST), Delia Ephron (You?ve got Mail, Michael (Staring John Travolta), Edward Said (Out of Place a Memoir), James Kelman Booker Prize Winner (How Late is Was, How Late), Adam Bellow US, son of Saul, Douglas Murray (Writer of Bosie), Eoin Colfer, The Huges Brothers Albert and Allen (US Directors ?From Hell? ?Menace 2 Society), Arundhati Roy, Susan Lloyd-Roberts, Damien Hirst, Alexander McQueen (Gucci), Vik Muniz (US Artist), John Coplands (US Artist), Tracey Emin, Prada, Nicholas Ghesghiere French Designer @ Belenciaga, Vanessa Beecroft and six other Whitney Artists, Jimmy Falon (Presenter of Saturday Night Live, Steve Martin, Denis Leary (US Comic), Ricky Gervais, Jay Leno, Vic and Bob, Harry Enfield, Phil Daniels, David Baddiel Frank Skinner, Kathy Burke, Steve Coogan, Jack Dee, Sex Pistols, Nelly Furtado, James Brown and Wax dummy, Ian Brown, Iggy Pop, Coolio, Jarvis Cocker, Charlie Watts, Paul Weller, The Osmonds, Duran Duran, LeConte (14/01/2000), PJ Proby, Bo Diddley, Yoko Ono, Neil Tennent and Brett Anderson, Herb Albert, Burt Bacharach, The Monkees, Leeroy Thornhill (The Prodigy), Carlos Santana, John Williams, Alanis Morissette , Billie Piper, Alessandro Safina, Victoria de Los Angeles, Andre Previn, Julian Cope, Lennox Lewis, Ricky Williams (American Football, voted most talented newcomer 2000), David Beckham, Bjorn Borg, Jeff Bezos (Founder of Amazon.com), Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey, Carl Djerassi (Inventor of the pill), Sir Richard Branson, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Neil Kinnock, Kenneth Clark, Iain Duncan Smith, Benazir Bhutto, John Major, Lord Birt, Sir Laurens van der Post, Sir Terence Conran, Lord Archer,