When I was at the Bill Brandt exhibition at the weekend I casually said ‘I want to have a go at doing the ‘Nude’ shot one of these days’. DM and GK leapt in on the act and decided they wanted to do it too so we agreed we’d all do our shot today, trying to capture the essence of BBs original but with something of our own.

DM’s shot has a Stella bottle perfectly placed to hide his nipple. GK has his nipple exposed and shades and me – well, I’ve got the pose all wrong and I’ve stuck to my guns and published in colour but I figured that he’d be comfortable with that as he wasn’t averse to making a few post shot changes to his image himself.

I have had a hugely difficult time with this one – it’s taken ages and I’ve been hot and bothered while doing it. I took 99 photos to get this one – the remaining 98 were a mix of the plain awful and the plain rude. So, here is my effort – posted a bit under duress because the boys have both been hopping about waiting to post their shots for hours. Gary phoned a while ago saying (not in so many words) ‘get on with it woman’ and DM has been shuffling around – I had to ban him from the studio and looking over my shoulder while I processed the image.

Anyway, here it is – my interpretation of a BB classic!