Photographing Tim »
Recently I had the pleasure of photographing a man called Tim Andrews. Since retiring from his job as a lawyer because of Parkinson’s disease, Tim has been photographed by over 100 different photographers, from photography degree students, to ‘established’ artists including Rankin, Harry Borden, Mike McCartney and Jillian Edelstein, who have all interpreted his character and [...]
Asylum-seeking »
Above: Holes in your head today
The idea of using an abandoned mental asylum as a location was first suggested to me by a friend, Guy Feldman. I then mentioned it to Matthew, whose prompt Google searches dug up the disused Hellingly Hospital (not so obscure though – it has, to date, 3000 followers on Facebook, [...]
Growing pains »
Taken in the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital, Brighton.
Yonks ago (last October, to be precise), I ventured into my first abandoned building, Hellingly Mental Asylum in East Sussex. Sharing the images on Flickr, and then going to visit more abandoned places with partner Matthew (you can see my abandoned set here) I was eager to also [...]
An exercise in emotional detachment »
View on Flickr
This was a shoot I did today. Gleeful with the fact I managed to get my camera out, I thought that I might as well use the opportunity to update my blog too. It’s weird how out of practise you can get with self-portraiture. I have been half busy, half lazy, mulling over [...]
Bending over backwards in Photoshop. Literally »
How I made THIS:
From THIS:
A few people were against me posting this entry, as they preferred me to keep the mystery of my imagery intact.
Because I’d already written it and promised it, I think it’s only right that I publish my entry on this occasion. I don’t do it with alot of images anyway.
Now, first [...]
Shooting Jane »
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Here is a commissioned photoshoot I did for a very lovely lady called Jane who saw me in the newspaper in May, and came down from Bridlington to Brighton (on her broomstick) to get shot for 2 days in various places round Sussex, for images to celebrate her 40th birthday.
(Some you can click through to [...]
‘Sculptography’ »
I recently did a collaboration with sculptor and bodycaster Jamie McCartney, for my exhibition Neurotica at Impure Art Gallery. The idea was to create a cast of me in a pose similar to one of my nude shots and then to shoot a photograph in the same pose, and project it onto the cast in [...]
My collaborations with Rossina Bossio »
This past few weeks I have been sharing on Flickr the results of a collaboration with Colombian artist Rossina Bossio, who lives in Rennes, France. I have known of Rossina’s paintings and photographs for a while now, through her Flickr photostream. I started to share interesting conversations with her online a few months ago when [...]
Happy Birthday Tatus »
(view image on flickr)
Visiting Tatus
When first told I was to see our dad
My young mind imagined bandaged heroes laid in dormitories
Not a sea of rock flotsam,
The invasion of walking across them
Stepping in and about and around them,
in an all-but twitching void. Flapping of flower wrappings
Each stone either a glib shrine or overgrown neglect
A geometrically organised [...]
Plane ride, Palm Springs plans & more »
Some more images from my Feb US trip… (see further below for news on my upcoming presentation at Palm Springs Photo Festival on 2nd April as well as a link to a competition for young photographers.)
Fuel stop!
Big thanks to Daniel Buchmaller who I met on my Seattle photowalk in February, who invited me one my [...]