Last weekend I met up with a few friends who I used to go to university with, it reminded me how lucky I was to be surrounded by such talented people (I sound so gushy!). One my favourites had always been Chloe Lelliott, she mixes beautiful existential interiors in the project “Between Silence and White Walls” with wonderful kitsch portraits of chairs in the series “Where did all the Good Chairs Go?”.
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
FREESTYLE is a showcase consisting of a small selection of works from twelve different photographers and illustrators in Birmingham. With a myriad of styles – from the colourful portraits of Alis Pelleschi and the conceptual photographs of Holly Nind all the way to the imaginative graffiti illustrations of Phill Blake and Daisy Whitehouse. It aims to represent the different styles and ideas of artists throughout our city from all walks of life.
The showcase features the work of photographers & illustrators:
Alis Pelleschi
Luke Halliley
Holly Nind
Tony Hill
Helen Flanagan
Lucy Pryor
Mark Wilkinson
Mia Maher
Leon Sparkes
Daisy Whitehouse
N4T4
& Phill Blake.
The showcase is located in the BACK BAR of the Hare and Hounds (Kings Heath) and starts on December 8 at 8pm. It is completely FREE. There will be a DJ set from THE OTHER WOMANS CLUB and a spoken word set from the amazing Jodi Ann Bickley.
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I’ve stumbled across a wonderful collective called Must Warn Others. It has Bryan Schutmaat in it and he’s just great.
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I just found this. It was the first photograph I produced when going into the last year of university. Awful!
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I went to see the Jim Goldberg exhibition at the Photographers Gallery in London last week, it was so inspiring. His large format photographs have a beautifully rich quality to them. The image above his from his series from the Ukraine, Goldberg comments; “In Europe, I am an outsider, I don’t really understand anything that I am seeing. I can be welcomed into people’s homes, I can be met with suspicion, I can be taken somewhere else altogether. There is always wonderment there for me, even if the person I am photographing may not see it or be aware of it.” I read an interesting blog post a while ago (I can’t remember where), the jist was that could you really make a substantial and meaningful body of work about a place that you didn’t really know? Well in Goldberg’s case, you certainly can.
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I didn’t realise it has been two weeks since my last post. Oh dear.
Erika Svensson is a wonderful photographer from Sweden. She mixes portraits and landscape and night photography and still life and other stuff beautifully. I especially love the series “Thou Wondrous Man”, the delicate images have such power. Wonderful stuff.
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Flora Hanitijo is one of my all time favourite photographers. I first saw her pictures on an album cover for Au Revoir Simone. Her work is similar to their music in the sense that it has this kind of nostalgic quality, without ever being overbearing. A kind of quiet elegance. She mixes portraits, landscapes and still life with consummate ease.
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Halloween was pretty fun. It’s a shame that my Jedward outfit didn’t come to fruition.
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Salva Lopez is photographer based out of Spain, I know nothing apart from that. The project “La Costa Gris” has a wonderful depth and warmth to it. The pure simplicity makes photography look easy.
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
My good friend Jon Cherry has only gone and blogged about me. I really enjoy his photography and had the pleasure of working with him on his self-published book “Blue Watch.”
In Jon’s series “Blue Watch” he followed a team of Cornish fire-fighters for seven months, capturing the tedium of the moments between fires. This image is one of my favourites from the book, he is able to encapsulate the mood of the small Falmouth branch wonderfully well and the laid pack pace only seems to enhance his message.
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
