Underground Gallery photography fair

I’m pleased to have been selected for the photography fair at the Underground Gallery, London!  Looking forward to seeing the whole exhibition and all the other photographers work.  Tonight is the private view at Underground Gallery which is in the actual underground under the ground at Charing Cross tube station indeed. 

Conscientious

I entered the portfolio competition on Jorg Colberg’s Conscientious blog a few weeks back and humbly accepted that I was not one of the winners.  This was quite easy to do as the winners were excellent – I recommend a look at them all: Mirjana Vrbaski, Nigel Bennet, and Yaakov Israel.  But happily, Mr Colberg did feature my work on the blog despite this, selecting the photograph below taken in Newcastle during my lonely trip around England last year as the featured image.  Cheers Jorg!

Hiroshi Kurokawa

My friend Hiroshi is a brilliantly talented jewellery designer and we all try to get him to ‘loan’ us jewellery and then we try and keep it FOREVER!  He spends half the year in London and half in Tokyo, and is looking to develop his web shop as well as get his jewellery stocked in boutiques here in London.  We did some photos for his website and promotional things with the beautiful Isla, art-directed by graphic designer Ross Clarke, and it was lots of fun.  These are from Hiroshi’s new square collection – there are millions more designs to see soon on his website, http://www.hiroshikurokawa.com/

Love from the BBC

It’s exciting to have been picked out by the BBC’s picture editor Phil Coomes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-14026759) as one of the featured images out of the 150 which will go on show from tomorrow night at Host Gallery, London.  I hope people will have a look through the entire series To happiness, endlessly on my website, which the selected image is a part of.

Here’s what Phil has to say about the exhibition in general:

Eclectic mix at the Foto8 Summershow

Once again the Foto8 Summershow is upon us and with it comes a chance to view some compelling new work.

Photographs adorn the walls at Host Gallery just off Old Street in London like some weird giant 3D jigsaw.

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The show comprises 150 images that have been selected by the Foto8 editorial team from more than 2,800 entries, and as you can guess by now, there’s no set theme. Photographers were invited to submit recent pictures that engage or challenger the viewer, with the resulting mix of styles and subjects all crammed onto the walls of the gallery.

Oddly enough it works very well. Though it can be overwhelming at times, it’s a treat to pick through the shots and find those that touch a nerve, raise a smile or that are harder to digest. It’s one show you really have to see up close and not just in the brochure or on the internet.

One other advantage of attending in person is that visitors to the show are able to vote for their preferred picture in the People’s Choice award. There is also a select band of judges who are also choosing their best in show, the result of which is announced at the launch party on 8 July.

Many of the pictures on show are part of larger projects. This one by Hannah Jones is part of a series titled, To Happiness, Endlessly. It was taken during a road trip without a planned route, one where the photographer recorded what she calls, “disconnected experiences”. Well worth a look.

Cheers Phil, it’s appreciated!

FOTO8 Summer Show!

I’ll have one picture in Foto8′s summer show at Host Gallery, London, this year.  It’s a pleasure to have been selected, and I do like the picture they’ve chosen, though which one that is will remain a mystery until the opening on July 8th – it’s important to keep people guessing!  It’s from my project to happiness, endlessly.

Sunday Times Magazine

Very pleased to have been asked to take some portraits with Sally Ayles for the Sunday Times Magazine’s A Life in the Day feature.  Proper scan of the actual magazine to come soon.

Thank you to Sally for giving me so much time to get the right shots.  I was very glad to have met her.

SuperMassiveBlackHole

Just found out that I will be one of the contributers in the next issue of SuperMassiveBlackHole magazine, online and available to download on April 1st.  Peter Fraser is pretty much a total legend and a bit of a hero of mine – he gave us some tutorials on the Masters at LCC and never failed to inspire me even when he was telling me the planned title for my project was shit, so it’s cool that he’s the main guy in this issue.  I submitted under the theme of colour theory, photographs from my project To happiness, endlessly (see the whole book here):

 

Mob Format

A couple of my street photographs have been selected as ‘PREMIUM’ by judges, who might have included Joel Meyerowitz at Format Festival!  Makes me think of Alex in Everything is Illuminated, who’s bad English causes him to use/abuse the word like this: ‘I am such a premium dancer’ and ‘They are premium people’.   Absolutely no prizes for being selected though, zero, nothing.  Apart from being featured on the site which is admittedly better than a smack in the face with a wet fish: Mob Format

five eleven ninety nine (or fiveleveninetynine) (or fiveelevenninetynine)

Whichever way you put it, this is the photography collective which a bunch of us have founded and are developing these days.  We’ve printed our first publication, a mixed up selection of all of our work and it looks brilliant!  Take a look on our site www.fiveleveninetynine.com.

Bits

A job centre on Deptford High Street which, since it was closed due to council cuts, has been occupied by squatters.   The tea was nice.