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, [...]
New Blurb book ‘Abandoned’ – and special competition! »
I have a NEW BOOK available on BLURB!
Read more, sample a preview, and buy the book, on Blurb HERE.
Miss Aniela: Abandoned is a large-format book at 13 x 11″, with 68 pages of images from my Abandoned series as seen here on Flickr, and also featuring images previously unpublished to the web. It [...]
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 [...]