A new body of work »

A new body of work

Above: Free range.

For over a year now, I have wanted to incorporate environmental issues/topics into my work. I did not know how to do so without feeling like I was forcing some unwanted didactic quality into my images, not wanting my work to turn into some kind of advertising campaign. [...]

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Posted in Essays, musings, Inspirations - References to other artists on February 10th, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Collaborating with Brooke Shaden »

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 [...]

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Posted in Collaborations & commissions, Essays, musings, Inspirations - References to other artists on November 17th, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Workshops in LA with Brooke Shaden »

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 [...]

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Posted in Events - workshops etc on November 12th, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I’m in the Art of Photography Show 2010 »

I’m in the Art of Photography Show 2010

This blog post is intended to be a preliminary entry for the next post: where I talk about my meeting with an art curator.
It is also definitely a cause for celebration in itself, however…
I used to be disinclined to enter competitions, or I’ve tried to make more of an effort with entering my work here [...]

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Posted in Talks on July 20th, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Exhibition at David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago »

Exhibition at David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago

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I am very excited to announce that I will be having my first US art exhibition!
The exhibition, a joint show with artist Amanda Friedman, will be showing at the David Weinberg Gallery in Chicago.
The show launches on 23rd July, and runs through to 4th September 2010.
The show features a wide range of [...]

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Posted in Exhibitions on July 8th, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Exhibiting at Buenos Aires Photo »

Exhibiting at Buenos Aires Photo

Thanks to camara oscura, Madrid, nine of my images will be exhibited by Lyle O’Reitzel Gallery, in Miami, Florida. The nine images are pictured below. Most will be medium size prints (58 x 88cm and thereabouts, the editions of 5) but The adjustment and The bus are featured as 83 x 125cm prints (edition of [...]

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Posted in Exhibitions on September 16th, 2009 | Leave a comment »

Seattle photowalk »

Seattle photowalk

On Friday 6th February (which happens to be my sister’s birthday) was the last of the photowalks – in Seattle, at an early start of 8am. It was wet weather, but this turned out to be the best one in my opinion. There was a great turnout (thanks to Paula posting on the Seattle meetup [...]

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Posted in Talks on March 7th, 2009 | Leave a comment »

Los Angeles photowalks »

Los Angeles photowalks

Now, images from the two photowalks in LA: first at Union Station, and then on Santa Monica pier. I’m now racing through these pics to get up to date!
Pictures from the first meetup at Union Station:

Above: my demo of the ‘cloning’ technique…

Above: Cresta posing by a British bus parked over the street from Union [...]

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Posted in Talks on March 4th, 2009 | 4 Comments »

San Francisco photowalks, day 2 »

San Francisco photowalks, day 2

Catching up on posting pics from my US trip!
Here are pictures from the second day of San Francisco photowalks on 3rd February 2009, first at the US memorial:

And later at Panhandle to the Conservatory of flowers:

Above: taken by Ziv Gillat

Above: taken by Ziv Gillat
More to come….including pics from LA where I met TWO Flickr pals….
Also [...]

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Posted in Talks on March 3rd, 2009 | Leave a comment »

Update! »

Update!

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation and shoot with Microsoft at Pravda Studios in Seattle, and also thanks to the model Alex, and Isadoras who provided two exquisite vintage dresses for the evening. Thanks also to Ziv Gillat (of Eye-Fi) for shooting images of the event that went straight online from his camera…

I produced [...]

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Posted in Talks on February 3rd, 2009 | 9 Comments »