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The driving force
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he has a keen interest
International in cinema, TV and associated arts. He also keeps a
image makers
close watch on fashion and interior design. Although based in Southport, the client base is very
At the millennium, the Master Photographers wide with 20 per cent travelling from all parts of the
Yaffé Fusion Art
Association named Paul Yaff é as the man who had country, including a number of ‘showbiz’ personalities.
made the biggest diff erence to portraiture during He divides his time between his studios in
orn 1946 into a professional photographic the previous century. Southport and his ultra contemporary studios and
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family in Manchester, Paul suff ered from His company, Yaff é Fusion Art, is now the galleries in Marbella, Southern Spain.
asthma and was unable to participate fully largest independent portrait studio in Europe. He Yaff é Fusion Art SL is his company in Spain,
in education or sport. He enjoyed learning runs the organisation with his son Adam (36) and, operating from Centro Plaza in Nueva Andalucia,
the tools of the photographic trade in his late father’s as he puts it, an amazing team of dedicated and near the famous watering hole of the rich and famous
studio, but didn’t particularly enjoy the way in which that highly motivated people. Puerto Banús. It was from speaking to clients here that
business was run or the location. Expressing his feelings It was in 2000 that his work underwent he came up with ‘YAFFÉme!’ which means the whole
and having been invited to leave and do it for himself he a change. He says: “I decided that portrait family can be photographed together using computer
did just that. At the age of 21 he opened his own business photography needed to be reinvented. We imagery even if they are in diff erent parts of the world.
from the home he had just set up with his young wife introduced digital technology to the company - T_h e images have designs laid in to create an image
Janis. not to get rid of fi lm and the ‘wet’ laboratory, but personifying the Yaff é Fusion Art technique.
He decided then that he was going to become the because I knew that a whole unique element could Clearly, at the age of 62, Paul Yaff é still runs a
best portrait photographer in the land. T_h ere followed be brought into the scenario. company at the very cutting edge of photography, art,
years of study, association and friendships with the “We embarked upon producing portraits with design and personal service.
world’s greatest photographic artists. By the age of 27 the inclusion of other allied design elements.” But he won’t be considering retirement any time
he had become the youngest portrait photographer ever T_h e resulting portraits not only show people soon. He says: “Why stop doing something which I
to achieve the highest qualifi cations awarded by the looking fantastic but also include appropriate love? Why stop being with people who continually
professional associations. design structures to suit both the personality of stimulate my thought processes? Why stop seeing the
He went on to judge the work of others and the subjects and also the interiors into which the tears of pleasure in the faces of my clients? Why stop
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eventually became the chairman of the admissions and portraits will hang. T_h is is completely unique to the creative process? No, to retire is to expire- I just
qualifi cations board of the most important photographic Yaff é Fusion Art and the term is now a registered can’t visualise retirement whilst I’m on my feet.”
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