18/12/2025
For the forthcoming theatre show, The Falcon’s Last Flight, we wanted the photographs for the program to feel as though they belonged to Anne Boleyn’s last night, not a modern recreation of it. Everything was built to honour the period, the set, the textures, the candlelit atmosphere, and the emotional truth of a final meeting that history never recorded. No strobe, no shortcuts, just candlelight with the gentlest support from modelling light, shaping the faces the way a painter would, letting shadow carry as much meaning as expression.
It was an intense shoot, full of quiet moments and sudden emotion, because the story itself is an emotional rollercoaster.
Karen Davies and Craig Lightholler brought a rawness that made it impossible to stay detached behind the camera. These images were crafted in camera, with the world physically present on set, candles, fabric, and texture, so what you see is not an effect, it is the atmosphere we stood in.
Tickets and details are at https://www.iamhenry.co.uk/the-falcons-last-flight
