Jake Chessum and James Dimmock are OG FACE photographers, cornerstones of the magazine in the ​’90s, and now both Englishmen in New York who’ve gone onto fancy careers in editorial, commercial and Hollywood photography. Jake has shot two Presidents, while James’ work is currently plastered all over Times Square, courtesy of his skyscraper-sized imagery advertising the comeback of Rick and Michonne to the Walking Dead franchise.

Getting their start on our print magazine back then, each worked their way up through the ranks. For a small story in the front section, James was dispatched to Sweden for less than 24 hours to shoot a 15-year-old TV soap actor he knew only as ​“Rebecca”. A few years later, that teenage schoolgirl was going toe-to-toe and stunt-to-stunt with Tom Cruise in three Mission: Impossible films; she’s now known as Rebecca Ferguson.

In 1997, Jake was sent to Barcelona with me to shoot a pair of launch gigs for a British band’s album that we thought might do well – but, just in case, we hedged our bets and committed to a single page of coverage. That was Radiohead’s OK Computer. And the rest, as they say, was hysteria.

Graduating to features and cover stories for the mag, they also shot OutKast in Cannes, Beastie Boys in Los Angeles, Aaliyah, Aphex Twin and loads more. Increasingly in demand from other publications, advertisers, film studios and record companies, they went on to photograph Hollywood up and comers (Joaquin Phoenix), models du jour (Kate Moss) and future superstars (Amy Winehouse). Also captured at key points in their respective careers: Pharrell Williams, David Bowie and PJ Harvey.

Their next stop: jobs, lives and families on the other side of the pond.