The story behind the image!

If you don’t know who Steve Orino Portrait and Corporate Photographer is, you’ve definitely seen at least one of his photographs!

Steve is an award-winning Portrait Photographer who has taken some of the most memorable and iconic images of notable British personalities over the past 40 years.

Operating in the highly-competitive and challenging world of the editorial, corporate and advertising industries, Steve has captured hundreds of famous faces - giving a visual voice to clarify stories for prestigious clients.

“I'm usually only given about 10 minutes to get my pics,” says Steve.? “But sometimes it takes just a split second to get the shot.”

As an example, Steve tells the story of how he captured that focused steely-eyed look on the face of a usually smiling Olympic gold medalist sprinter USAIN BOLT....

USAIN BOLT was staying at the late BOB MARLEY's house in Jamaica, and I was flown over to take his picture for a STUFF magazine cover in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics.? I was told I had only 10 minutes to take my pictures.

I asked him to assume a start position, and he did so – looking down at the ground.? I asked him to lift his head and look into the camera, and he growled: “We don’t look up in the start position!”

It was quite intimidating.? His shoulders are HUGE! And I was crouched just a metre away from one of the most powerfully-built humans on the planet - and one who could move very fast!

“Well, would you mind just looking up this time?” I asked.

He lifted his head and glared at me...and I took the picture!

While Usain was quite happy to spend more than 10 minutes with Steve, it was this photograph that ended up on one of the STUFF magazine’s Olympic covers.? It was also used by several other magazines at the time, and on an official programme for the 2012 LONDON OLYMPICS. It's become an iconic image.

Steve is now planning on putting together a coffee-table book featuring some of his most famous photographs, and the stories behind them!

“People are always asking me what these famous people were really like, and who was the best and the worst to photograph.? It’s time to put all my stories into a book!” he says.

You can check out some of Steve’s iconic images on his website https://www.orinophoto.co.uk/