Workshops in a haunted theatre »
Above: Performing the past (view on Flickr)
Last weekend I held two workshops in the Royal Hippodrome, a semi-functional theatre in Eastbourne. It was an exciting prospect to use a ‘real’ location and one that had derelict properties about the place. The hardest thing was figuring out what exactly my workshops there would be themed on. [...]
Shooting Visions of Trees »
In October I shot a commission for the band Visions of Trees. I met with the management and the band at my East London exhibition in August, and we’d been on the lookout for interesting locations for a collaboration since then. The brief was to produce publicity photos using styles and techniques from my own [...]
December workshops in a semi-derelict (and supposedly haunted) theatre! »
After having used plain studio spaces successfully enough in my London levitation-themed workshops, I am now ready to embrace a more guttural, ‘real’, and moody space. After doing workshops in the LA warehouse, and feeling happy to sacrifice the cleanness, reliability and sanitised lighting set-up of a studio for a place that exudes tungsten rawness, [...]
Shooting for Apple & Eve »
(Above: view on Flickr)
In September I was commissioned to shoot images for a fashion label called Apple & Eve. The theme was to be quintessentially English, using quaint locations, which was very much to the taste of the Phillippines-based brand. There were a lot of images resulting from the one-day shoot…
The shoot involved two different [...]
Collaborating with Brooke Shaden »
Staying with, and collaborating with Brooke Shaden in LA has been a wonderful and enlightening experience. Our primary intention was to host two collaborative workshops which I wrote about in my last blog entry. The rest of the time, apart from preparing for, shopping for, and recovering from our workshops, was spent shooting together.
Hallowe’en in [...]
Workshops in LA with Brooke Shaden »
During my recent trip to the US I co-hosted two workshops with fellow art photographer Brooke Shaden. Back in the late summer, Brooke and I had both started doing our own workshops at roughly the same time, on our respective sides of the Atlantic, both levitation-themed. The idea of coming together for dedicated classes on [...]
Art of Photography Show in San Diego »
I have just returned from the US where I had a fantastic two weeks in California, with material to potentially fill out about 5 blog posts! My main reason for going over to the States was to speak at the Art of Photography Show in San Diego. My image ‘The smothering’ was shown at the [...]
The Art of Photography… and of procrastination-free speech preparation »
At this very moment I am trying to plan my presentation that I am giving for the Art of Photography Show in San Diego next Thursday night, in which I have an image of mine exhibited. Steven Churchill, who I met in 2009 at the Palm Springs Photo Festival, kindly offered the idea of doing [...]
Flying solo – images from October workshops in London »
Above is an image taken at my latest London workshops! (view on Flickr). The workshops on 9 & 10 October were similar to my very first workshops held in September – with the levitation theme set in a studio, and a class of 8 students on each of the two days.
As it’s coming nearer – [...]
Exhibiting at Photolounge – and other stuff »
I am going to be showing my work at ‘Photolounge’ for a few days in ‘Photomonth’. Photomonth is a photo festival period in East London from October to November.
I am going to be exhibiting images from my ‘Abandoned’ series:
I thought that in the time I have got left living in East London, I should [...]