Ablum cover shoot for Cores’ latest release “Ego Trip”

A while back I was approached by amazing musician, producer and engineer Alex ‘Cores’ Hayes about creating some imagery for the cover of his upcoming solo album Ego Trip.

Having worked with some of the biggest names in the business, Alex was now taking on the hardest task of releasing his own, long awaited project. As an artist I knew all too well the struggle of knowing when your own material is ready for release, and even more so actually putting out there for the world to enjoy. So it was a privilege to be asked to shoot this for him and a task which i didn’t take lightly.

Alex brought the concept to me and we then began to form a plan, book the studio and get ready for the shoot. The results hit the nail on the head.

Here are the behind the scenes images showing our set up for the day. The neck chain that was actually more of a leash was positioned specifically to lead out into another photo planned for the left hand side.

Below is the final image used for the ‘Ego Trip’ cover. It was decided to have the chain leading up out of the frame rather than to the left to further carry the message when the photo was used on it’s own.

We initially had planned for the main image to link into a couple of other shots for single releases. These would all work as stand alone images, with a wider shot showing them all together in the same frame. Here is a sneak peek at those two images along with a mock up of the full frame image for the inlay card depicting the ego trip….

‘Ego Trip’ by Cores can be streamed on

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1zUNxSr44P0BH0nv8c4g8J

Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B07YW2XG6B

and more: https://ditto.fm/ego-trip