New Series – “The Gathering Clouds”

Introducing “The Gathering Clouds” - a new series of photographs from Spain.

Hidden Treasure No.5

A day late (but hey, it’s my birthday today) – here’s Hidden Treasure no.5. Another outtake from my visits to Spain last year, this image was taken in Badalona, a coastal suburb of Barcelona. For those of you who are new to the “Hidden Treasure” series, once a month (usually on or close to the 1st of the month) I’m making a 10×8 image available for upload and printing. The link is active for 3 days, after which you’ve missed your chance!

Just click here or on the flyer above to download this months image.

Please only use the image for personal use; Any commercial usage will be invoiced for appropriately!

Jay Maisel

– always carry a camera with you, ok?

it’s hard to find much of Jay Maisel’s work online, although he runs a series of workshops in New York that get spoken about highly… Whatever – I like his perspective on photography from this interview.

thanks to Tim Olsen for the link.

Print Auction in Aid of The Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Appeal

Peter, Ontario – January 2008, originally uploaded by benroberts.

I’m auctioning a 20×24 print of this image in aid of the Haiti Earthquake.

It’s an archival lambda print, made by John Cleur at Argento, London.

It’s part of a group initiative started by Andrew Newson here: www.flickr.com/groups/charityprintauctions

Bids are taking place in the comments section below the image on flickr. At the time of writing bids are up to £62.50. There’s full details of how to bid, pay and receive the print if you visit the flickr page.

Please consider bidding for a worthy cause.

Hidden Treasure No.4

A bit of a delay for this months Hidden Treasure as I have been tied up in relocating to Bournemouth. This image is an outtake from my travels through Spain over the summer of 2009. I’ll be launching a more up to date gallery of the work in progress on my website sometime in February. Click on the flyer above to download the 10×8 image – you’ve got 3 days until the link closes. Just a disclaimer – please only use the image for personal use (printing etc)… and as I have mentioned before, if any of you are printing these out then drop me an image of the prints up on a wall and I’ll run a blog feature in the future… cheers!

Girl who I photographed in Liverpool Street can dance!

I just got told by David Bram that the girl in this photograph (who i stopped randomly in Liverpool Street station back in march 2009) was in a mobile phone commercial. The he actually found it for me… and it’s pretty cool…

A new challenge…

After 3 years in London, I’m leaving to head back down to Bournemouth to take up a technician/tutor role at my old college, the Arts University College at Bournemouth. I’ll be doing hands on technical tuition for the BA photography students. Its a new challenge but I’ll be keeping a toe in London; I’m really grateful to my agency LPA who have shown their support by continuing to support me for commercial commissions.

For the last two years I’ve been getting my clothes dried at this launderette on Blackstock Road, just around the corner from my house. The staff their are amazing – loads of chat and just great people. I was their this evening getting my clothes dried, and the owner was telling me how over the last ten years he’s had several photography shoots and film crews use his two launderettes as locations. He’s never charged them, and they always promise him prints – but noone has ever kept that promise. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve taken a few shots of their christmas decorations and and also the exterior of the shop one late night on my way home from a late printing session at my studio. I’ve got a set of 4 prints sealed and ready to drop off on my way home tonight. A last thankyou I guess!

As photographers, it’s our duty to honour promises of prints. It might seem like a small gesture, but I reckon that those people who give us their time deserve to be recognised and it means a lot.

On that note – have a great christmas and new year – I look forward to catching up with some of you both online and off in 2010.

Tearsheet – Newsweek – Issue 2010 Special Edition

really pleased with this image usage in the end of year edition of Newsweek. Thanks to Stuart Pilkington and Lindsay Blatt for making this happen.

Hidden Treasure No.3

It’s the 1st of the month, and time for the third edition of “Hidden Treasures”.

This month, it’s another London based image, but vastly different in style from Novembers edition.

Remember, these images are for personal use only – hopefully some of you are printing them out! If you are printing these images (or even hanging them somewhere?!) then send me a digi snap of the prints in situ – I’d really like to run a blog post showing my work on your walls!

cheers, and get downloading by clicking the flyer above – the link only lasts for 3 days!

Vision 2009 – this coming friday

I’m speaking at this years Vision event run by the British Journal of Photography. It’s on Friday at the Business Design Centre in Islington.

Other confirmed speakers are Martin Parr and Eugene Richards! And I’m going to miss both of their presentations as I am speaking at the same time. dammit! I won’t be offended if you go and see either of these two greats of photography (I know who I would choose!), but if you can’t squeeze into the main lecture hall, then come along to Seminar Room A at either 11.30 or 2.30. I’ll be talking about my experiences in Spain this year, photographing a body of work about the country’s struggle with an economic crisis. As well as showing work from this series, I’ll also talk about how I have made the transition from graduate to working photographer, and how I went about applying for and eventually winning the BJP’s project assistance award.