The Charles Parsons

We were waiting for several weeks before the coal freighter Charles Parsons appeared in our sights. Greenpeace had decided to up the ante and protest against fresh coal being delivered to the infamous power station Kingsnorth where various protests had taken place in the past.

Covering this event involved not only a lot of patience, but also strength and persistence as we spent nearly 30 hours in an inflatable from beginning to end. Encountering rough waves, cold, sleep deprivation and also police keen to arrest us, this job was out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, the boys in blue did confiscate a sizeable amount of the photos I produced that night, and here are some of those they didn't get their lawful hands on. I hope this gives you an idea...

Charles Parsons - Images by Jiri Rezac

Those interview jobs

Sometimes they all come at once: interview portraits, for different clients, with different briefs, in (naturally) different locations. The selected pictures are not necessarily the first choice of my editors, but they are mine. So here they are. All these (and many more) were taken in the space of several days in early June, apologies for late posting. Life has been rather hectic at Rezac towers.

First, we have Michel Parmigiani, president of Parmigiani Watches, Geneva, Switzerland photographed during an interview in a London black cab.

Then we have Reza Aslan, a scholar on Islamic religion and author, photographed during a rather brief intermezzo at Russel Square before he was due to give a speech.

And lastly, the eminent historian Timothy Garton-Ash, photographed for a lead story on European politics following the UK's EU election results.