Norway July '11

"The Shot That Nearly Killed Me"

Just found this great image bank on the Guardian website. Seventeen comtempory war photographers select one of their images and talk in reasonable depth about it, and what drives them to do their work. Essential reading for budding photojournalists.

Working with Barrage Media

I have recently secured a freelance position with Barrage Media. Barrage specialize in making training and educational films for charities and the public sector. I'll be working as a camera man and lighting technicain. I'm extremely excited about this as I've been wanting to get into video, and Hannah Chamberlin, the head honcho has many years of industry experience and I'll be learning on the job.

Hannah and I are also partnering on another project that will have to remain secret for now, but if it goes forward will be very exciting and innovative.

Three Gorges

Three Gorges, Hubei, China, 6th April 2011.

Deck hands get ready to guide a hydrofoil into port along the Yangtze River, near the site of the controversial Three Gorges Dam. The dam is the largest in the world and the reservoir it created displaced 1.24 million people.

Photography program for adults with acquired brain injuries.

I have been organizing a photography program for adults with acquired brain injuries at a fantastic charity, Headway East London. The members who have been involved have an exhibition coming up in February in conjunction with a fundraising event, and we are looking at moving it elsewhere so it can stay up for a few months. After the exhibition we hope to continue and expand the project. Read the blog by a member involved in the project here: http://www.headwayeastlondon.org/our-community/projects/photo-project/

This is a service I will start to offer on a one on one basis. With serveral years experience in the brain injury field and as a photography I am in a great position to offer this unique service.

Boxing Creative Shoot

These are some pictures from the last shoot I shot in Vancouver, never got round to posting them up with the mayhem of moving back to England. Had a great time doing these, and working with a very talented team. Jen and Cam had not modeled before and were fantastic! Grace is a very talented make up artist who works in the film industry in Vancouver, I was very lucky to get her on board. Evren who assisted me and gave creative and technical advice has recently graduated from VanArts, and received an honorable mention in the 2010 Px3 awards, a name to be watching.

Makeup: Grace Schoorl
Models: Jennifer Yager and Cameron Johnson of Action Boxing Club
Assistant: Evren D'souza











This shot was fairly complex. All (other than some minor retouching) was done in camera, one shot. Camera was on a tripod, six second exposure. Hitting the shutter fired a strobe beauty dish above Jen for the main light, and and gridded strobe behind her to the left for the rim light. We had a large softbox on a strobe for a hot light, Jen ducked and weaved to get the motion blur, with Evren firing a speedlite to the left of camera at one point to get the sharper form on the left. This took a fair bit of time, patience and experimentation from everyone!

London Temporary Autonomous Art 2010

Been a long time since my last blog post, had a very busy summer. Below are some images from the Temporary Autonomous Art (TAA) event back in June. If your unfamiliar with TAA head to http://www.taaexhibitions.org/ and http://www.randomartists.org for more information.