Amateur Photographer

Spice Girls

Over 20 years since the Spice Girls burst onto the music scene, it’s easy to forget just how phenomenally popular they were. But one statistic tells the story: they have sold more than 85 million records worldwide, which makes them the bestselling female group in pop music history. And I was the photographer who did their first-ever press shoot.

It was June 1996, during the latter stages of the Euro ’96 football tournament. A group

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