Cock Photography

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After Hours

Film Noir Studies

After Hours

Country Gentleman

Editorial

Country Gentleman

Sittings

The year in portraits.

A Silver-Grey Dorking rooster with silvery-white hackles, a solid black breast, a glossy black tail and a large red single comb, in a tan waxed-canvas chore coat with a brown corduroy collar, cut to fit a bird, standing on scaled pale pink rooster legs with talons on the seat of an old wooden spindle-back chair in a knotty-pine lakeside cottage, a sofa and armchair draped in white dust sheets around him, a lattice-topped red berry pie in a glass dish with one slice gone, a folded tea towel and a wooden canoe paddle on a pine table beside him, a half-closed louvred shutter and a window behind showing a grey lake and a far shore of red, orange and green autumn trees under an overcast sky

The Pie Will Not Fit in the Car

Dust Sheets

A Buff Plymouth Rock rooster with smooth even golden-buff plumage and a red single comb, in a deep indigo wool ranch jacket with a cream sheepskin collar and a turquoise wool scarf, seated upright like a gentleman in a faded green canvas folding chair on a dusty high-desert field at dawn, folded buff wing feathers resting on his knees and scaled yellow rooster legs with talons planted in the dirt, a steel flask and cup on a small folding table beside him, a roadrunner standing on the ground nearby, dozens of plain brightly coloured hot-air balloons rising into a pink and pale blue sky above a long blue mountain ridge

A Roadrunner, Likewise Grounded

Nine Mornings

A Buckeye rooster with smooth deep mahogany-red plumage, a small red single comb and a glossy dark green tail, in a dark green ribbed wool gansey cut to fit a bird, standing on scaled yellow rooster legs on a worn grey flagstone hearth beside an old black cast-iron range in a whitewashed Highland cottage kitchen, a lidded black iron pot on the range with steam escaping, a plain wooden stirring stick resting across a white saucer, a cloth bag of oats tied with string and an open wooden salt box on a stone ledge, a small misted-over window above in cool early-morning light

Stirred One Way Since Seven

Salt, Not Sugar

A Jersey Giant rooster with smooth glossy black plumage and a large red single comb, in a camel wool overcoat over a cream roll-neck, seated upright like a gentleman on a weathered wooden garden bench beside a low white picket gate, folded black wing feathers resting on his knees and scaled dark grey rooster legs with talons on a gravel path, a single plain cream envelope lying face down on the bench beside him and a white enamel mug, a plain green-painted wooden letterbox on the gatepost, a clipped beech hedge turning copper behind him in soft mid-morning autumn light

One Envelope, Addressed in Ink

By Hand

A Barn Owl, Unbothered

In Profile

A Lakenvelder rooster with a smooth white body, glossy black hackles and a black tail and a red single comb, in an olive-green padded cotton jacket over a grey knit jumper and knitted grey breeches, seated upright like a gentleman on the lid of an old tan leather suitcase in the tiled hallway of an older apartment in the evening, folded white wing feathers resting on his knees and scaled grey rooster legs with talons reaching to the floor, a string bag of orange persimmons hanging from the case handle and two empty glass jars on the floor beside it, a green-painted wooden door, a scarf on a coat hook and a pair of grey felt slippers by the wall, warm light from a ceiling lamp

The Case Will Not Shut

Last Night Home

Dispatches

Photo essays from the field.

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A bearded Salmon Faverolles rooster seen from behind at the top of a steep city vineyard, looking out over the rooftops of Paris

Latest · Montmartre, October

North Facing

Paris keeps one working vineyard, on the north side of Montmartre, planted facing away from the sun. Every book on the subject advises against it. Géraud has helped with the harvest there each October for some years, and admires it for that reason.

Featuring Géraud

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A rooster in a tweed jacket facing a gilded weathercock in a misty churchyard

A Restoration

The Regilding

2 October 2026

Two hens walking into an empty show space with a long white runway

London, September

Front Row

19 September 2026

A white crested rooster in a green linen jacket on a white terrace above Bodrum bay and its castle

Bodrum, August

Not One Grain

15 August 2026

The Models

The faces you will meet in the dispatches.

Aldous, a golden-brown Wheaten Marans rooster in a camel overcoat and charcoal rollneck, a jeweller's loupe on a black ribbon, standing on a warm grey studio backdrop

Aldous

Wheaten Marans

Whitmore, an all-black Ayam Cemani rooster with a black comb, in a black velvet smoking jacket with burgundy lapels and a white silk cravat, standing on a warm grey studio backdrop

Whitmore

Ayam Cemani

Beaumont, a broad mahogany-red Rhode Island Red rooster with a black-green tail, in a charcoal waistcoat and jacket over an open-collared white shirt, squared to the camera and looking straight down the lens, on a warm grey studio backdrop

Beaumont

Rhode Island Red

Edmund, a dark chocolate Black Copper Marans rooster with a long black-green tail, in an olive waxed jacket with a corduroy collar over a cream rollneck, standing on a warm grey studio backdrop

Edmund

Black Copper Marans

Cressida

New Hampshire Red

Pip, a fluffy pale-yellow chick in a hand-knitted navy cardigan, standing very upright and facing the camera, small in the middle of a warm grey studio backdrop

Pip

Rhode Island Red, in due course

Géraud, a bearded Salmon Faverolles rooster with feathered feet in a navy linen blazer over a Breton-striped top, a leather satchel across his body, standing on a warm grey studio backdrop

Géraud

Salmon Faverolles

Ambrose

Golden Phoenix

Selim, a snow-white Sultan rooster with a rounded crest, a beard and heavily feathered legs and feet, in a bottle-green linen jacket and burgundy knitted tie, standing on a plain pale wooden stool, facing the camera, on a warm grey studio backdrop

Selim

Sultan

Tomoe, a tiny white Chabo bantam hen with a black upright tail and very short legs, in a tailored black tuxedo jacket over a white shirt, standing on a warm grey studio backdrop

Tomoe

Chabo (Japanese bantam)