Attend Academy Pilot Project

Last week I started a four week pilot photography workshop at the Attend Academy. The client group is people with acquired brain injuries on their vocational training course who are looking to gain skills to enter the workplace. This is an area I have not worked in before, and I am absolutely thrilled to be working with such a high profile organization. The first session went really well and I'm looking forward to seeing what work they have produced when we meet again next week.

Parkour Generations Shoot

Here are some highlights from my recent shoot with Parkour Generations in and around the Barbican Estate. Featuring:

Brian Appiah Obeng
Kristian McPhee
Adham Fares
Annty Marais
Jolade Olusanya

Top guys and girl and great fun to work with.

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.