Shane Copley is this years winner of the NABBA Universe Class 3 and got in touch wanting to take some slightly more unusual bodybuilding portraits rather than just standard poses.

Our working brief for the shoot was to try and create some contrasts between his (pretty huge!) size and ordinary members of the public out and about shopping. So into the centre of Leeds we went on a busy Saturday morning.

The reactions of passers by were hilarious, veering wildly from fascination (just staring…and staring…and staring) to lip curling disgust. Some people didn’t know where to look, some couldn’t tear themselves away. *i