Indian businessman Ratan Tata died this week, aged 86. Sometime in 2008, I was dispatched to Gaydon, Warwickshire to photograph him for Jaguar Magazine following the purchase of JLR by his Tata Group. The feature was called “In the back seat with…” and a suitable Jaguar limousine had been provided and parked outside the office. I had initially thought of shooting from inside the car, perhaps using some clever lighting on him from outside although it was a tight squeeze and I couldn’t quite see how I was going to make it work. Fortuitously, the car was white, normally a very difficult colour to work with but when I started testing how it might work to shoot through the rear window instead, I realised that firstly the natural light on his face was really interesting and secondly, although a bit risky, I could probably just about hold enough detail in the car’s exterior for it to still ‘read’ on the Fujifilm Velvia I was using at the time. All that was left to do was to use a large white reflector on the far side, to hide a horrible area of green grass through the window, which had the added benefit of kicking back a little more light onto the far side of his face. Designer Tim Scott did a lovely job of laying it out over two pages and it remains one of my favourite magazine spreads