Phil Cook Photography

Name: Phil Cook Photography
Address: Connahs Quay, GB
Telephone: +447939038771
Price range: $$

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I’m blessed to have worked with my passion, as a photographer & image makers. Get in touch to discuss your photography ideas!

Past clients include M&S, P&G, Allied London, Sainsbury’s, Homebase, to name
a few.

01/10/2026

Thought it was time to start sharing my photographic journey, in all its depth.

It’s not going to be precisely chronological, but will involve film photography (where my passion begun) through early digital (which was flipping hard work) to everything else.

The subjects will involve everything I’ve done throughout my career, before & after it too, from product to food, events, architecture, portraiture, still life & digital art.

What can I say, I didn’t allow myself to be pigeon holed, the way I felt it and still do, I paint with light, I understand composition, so why not get involved in as many areas of photography as you want to..?

I haven’t and will never use Ai for my photography, everything you’re going to see, I’ve created in camera, unless it’s my digital art images.

I’ll explain as and when throughout my posts.

IMAGES ON POST
This was my bread & butter…product photography/advertising/studio based

I had a great long standing client list including P&G, M&S & Sainsbury’s

The only heavy photoshop was the Olay in golden background shot.

10/09/2026

Spent the majority of my career as a photographer in a studio environment, but was stubborn enough to not let myself get pigeon holed.

The way I saw it, I loved painting with light, whatever the situation.
The vast majority of jobs I’ve been on, over the last few years, have been events and portraits, which I’ve loved doing.

A fly on the wall, watching events unfold and capturing the vibe and energy, in the moment.

I’ve also had a few dog jobs too, which have been my idea of heaven, I love dogs and I hopes that comes across too, in my photography. They know I have an affinity with them & that allows me to get some lovely shots.

More random photography to come from my extensive portfolio.
Thanks for having a look!

06/09/2026

No Vile & as far as I’m concerned, Lazy Ai, involved in my self portraits!

They’re pure photography, of me behind a sheet of latex. Not because I’m a latex fan but because I felt it was an amazing aid to help describe my feelings.

I had so many unhelpful emotions happening, I’d contemplated committing su***de AB’s was feeling very broken and alone…after thinking I had lots of friends, who faked everything.
I was the person, who this was never going to happen to(depression), I’d navigated an abusive, family life, where my dad beat me regularly…I was totally wrong.

I can’t describe my journey in this moment, it’s in the past and white noise!

One day, during my depression, I felt compelled to illustrate my feelings and in that moment, saw the latex sheet I had for ages as a prop & felt it would be great to help me explain/illustrate my feelings…it was the beginning of my rebirth, the way I feel it. That’s the beauty of creating, and being open…. It’s like a pressure valve, a place you can vent, let go of your pain.

Maybe why I started this latex series/

Stuck in a prison, where everyone can see you but no comes close enough to ask, how you are. Latex is suffocating, constricting, plastic, breathless, and photographically it screamed at me. 10+ years later they still lick my heart in!

These are a few of the self portraits I recorded. Every single time I look at them, I burst in to tears, I’m doing it now…they’re so full of emotional energy for me, I literally can’t help crying.

There’s nothing sexual, latex might be involved but that’s down to your mindset. I’ve posted a few before on a different account and there’s lots of twisted men, from far away countries, liking them. Get fkd If that’s your vibe.

These are an illustration of nothing else, as to my depression at the time and a release…that was the start of my rebuild.

You can make your own image descriptions up, they’re open to whatever you see & feel.

05/09/2026

Those scallops were huge and I shot them in their premier suite, on the top floor of the Royal Dorchester Hotel.
They tasted AMAZING!

I was lucky to work with a long list of household names, throughout my photographic journey.

I was stubborn…I loved all kinds of photography, from food to people and everything between. I didn’t let myself get pigeon holed into one genre, one type…no thank you.

It allowed me to take on all kinds of jobs, which kept me buzzing, with learning.

I was lucky in that work want work, it’s a passion, so it never felt like work.

30/07/2026

These are self portraits of my journey through depression…I figured I’m a photographer and I knew creativity was my door to work through my state of being…so I embraced the moment.
I had a sheet of latex I’d used for photographing w**e explosions, so I grabbed that and these are some of my self portraits.
No Ai what so ever, all in camera photos!

15/07/2026

Here’s an introduction to my ‘fantastic breakables’
No Ai was used…I made them 12-13 years ago as a way to navigate myself through depression.

That’s the link…I was never going to suffer with depression, I was too strong for that…. Until life just became too much & I felt utterly breakable.

I wanted to make art by recycling my career, by taking bread & butter product photography and recycling it, making new images. I guess I was trying in the only way I knew how, to recycle myself.

In these images I’ve created, I used images of plates, a w**e glass & ch*****ne flute, the rest I used Photoshop and my imagination.

This is a selection, there’s additional images that are all crockery made into people/characters I’ll be posting soon.

29/06/2026

Hand painted garden mural…why wouldn’t you?!

I can paint yours inside, outside, on a board and whatever wall you’d like.

Get in touch to start the ball rolling! [email protected]

29/06/2026

Open for bookings! Get in touch to discuss your mural. Choose your wall, kitchen, bathroom, garden, patio, the world’s your mural opportunity. Phil is happy to paint whatever kinda scene you’re after, from nature to industrial and everything in between.

Address

Connahs Quay

Telephone

+447939038771

Website

https://www.philcookphotography.com/

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