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Starvinartist shoot

In late August Starvinartist and I embarked on the penultimate shoot for his sirens project. We photographed four models in total from which Starvin' will produce his unique pencil drawings for his exhibition that is happening somewhere at somepoint in the future (sorry for the vagueness). These two images are my favourites shots (Agnė Lastauskaitė and Eva Jakubiak) and the ones I chose to give a little post-production to. They are not necessarily the images (or models) that Starvin' will use as he has his own particular needs. On a technical note, they were more…

September 15, 2011 By admin at 2:51 pm

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strangers pt III (working title)

A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Project update: "Strangers pt III' (working title), the project on which I have been working on since Autumn 2009 was drawing to a close: I have produced 8 images and photographed upwards of 10 volunteers. The Cornerhouse Micro Commission was to be conducted over three months and end in April (It has run over three months but whose counting?). My last blog post on the project noted that the framing and presentation was the next step in anticipation of exhibiting the images this spring. I am more…

April 20, 2011 By admin at 10:26 am

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Another Collaboration.

Thursday the 7th April saw myself and StarvinArtist shoot a series of images that will, eventually, blend studio photography with Starvin's unique style of pencil drawing. The resulting images will be an initial pitch for a well known popular clothes label. It was a fun few hours creating crisp neat images followed by a few crisp cold pints in Electric. We got a good few shots down and now the leg work (or pencil work) is up to StarvinArtist... Can't wait to see the results. more…

April 8, 2011 By admin at 3:19 pm

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strangers part III (working title)

A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Project update: Two weeks ago I embarked on a day of photographing the nice people who volunteered to be photographed. For some it was the second time I had photographed them and for others the first. I was kindly assisted in the morning by Phil (pictured in a previous image on this blog) and by Martyn (AKA Starvinartist) in the afternoon. The day was long and at points a bit crazy... being stood in the middle of Market St, Manchester, firing off photographs & off camera flash. It was great more…

March 30, 2011 By admin at 4:23 pm

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strangers part III

A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Project update: Slightly delayed by Christmas, I am eventually out and about shooting, having had a good response from the kind people who have volunteered their services. Having photographed 6 people so far I am now able to take stock of the resulting images and the manner in which I am making decisions about location, subject and lighting. My ‘art’ photography always has a conceptual beginning: an idea about how/what the images communicate (or don’t). In much of my personal work more…

January 17, 2011 By admin at 5:05 pm

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strangers part III, A call for participants for photographic arts project.

A test image created with kind help of Angela (the model).

Strangers part III. A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Over the next three months I am embarking on a photographic portrait project commissioned by Cornerhouse (Manchester) and supported by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation. To succeed, this idea needs your help… The project, currently titled ‘Strangers’, will realise a series of portraits photographed on location within the city of Manchester. The sitters (i.e. those who are photographed - not necessarily sitting!) are to be recruited through on-line adverts and will be unknown to me more…

December 2, 2010 By admin at 3:07 pm

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