Brighton Christmas Day Swim 2011

Posted on 8th Jan 2012 by lomokev

I am a sea bather, I swim in the sea all year round without a wetsuit in temperatures as low as 4°C (39°F) and have been doing this for the past 8 years. For the most part I go swimming with my fellow members of the Brighton swimming club at 7:30AM when no one else is around to see our cold water exploits. Once a year that changes. On Christmas day the swimming club swims at 11am when it is joined by a large number of none club members and as many as 100 people enter the water. It’s not just the extra company we have in the water, we are also watched by over a thousand people who line the beach and the groynes. Many of the swimmers don fancy dress costumes which, combined with the large crowds, makes it a fantastic event to document. The only problem is that it’s a very challenging environment to shoot in. I take my photos from the water with my Nikonos V waterproof camera.

average christmas day fun

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Lomokev judging Create In Brighton competition with £1000 cash prize

Posted on 12th Dec 2011 by lomokev

Are you a creative type living or working in Brighton? Then you could enter Create in Brighton. It’s a graphic design, photography and illustration competition in association with Know the Not Known and Tiger Beer.

I have been asked to judge along with Lawrence Zeegen and Sarah Arnett. The theme of the competition is “discover” and the top prize if £1000 cash. Work must be submitted by the Sunday 20nd of January 2012. For more details and how to enter check out the website or the competition Facebook page.

Even though I am a little biased I can say it’s a great competition to enter as its free, its quite common for comps to ask for an entrance fees sometimes £15+. Also the £1000 is in cash, other comps will often offer vouchers. So what are waiting for get involved.

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Last street style spread for Brighton Source magazine in 2011

Posted on 11th Dec 2011 by lomokev

The December / January edition of Brighton Source Magazine is out with my usually Street Style section but this time I have three pages instead of the usually single page. The three pages show small selection of some of the un-printed shots form 2011 which is nice as some times I have bumper months and its a shame when certain portraits don’t get published. There will be no issue in January so this issue is way bigger than usually because it has to last until February 2012.

Brighton Source magazine spreads for December - January

As per usually you can see the all the images I shoot for Source in November below. You can always keep an eye on my montage portraits on my fragmented portraits tumblr or in my montage portraits flickr set. Continue reading →

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Brighton Photography Book and Brighton 2012 calendar

Posted on 27th Nov 2011 by lomokev

Nigel Swallow the man behind the long running Brighton calendar has put together a huge book of Brighton Photos. It’s not just huge because of its 328 pages but also because its dimensions size 34cm x 24cm, the only thing that is not huge about is the price £24! The book has been 10 years in the making because Nigel kept him self busy running a gallery and putting together a calendar every year. Most of the work in the book is Nigel’s, the rest is contributed by 50+ other local photographers including me. Below is a flip though of the book that I put together.

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Recent interviews with The Set Up, Focus Media and Lomography.com

Posted on 17th Nov 2011 by lomokev

In the last few months I have have been interviewed three times by Dutch magazine Focus, Lomography.com and The Setup.

First page of interview with Kevin Meredith in Focus Magazine

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October & November Source street style photos

Posted on 5th Nov 2011 by lomokev

Below are my montage portraits that were shot for the October and November issues of Brighton Source mag.

I have already posted all the images below to my new Fragmented Portraits Tumblr blog. I have been uploading new and old montage portraits to Fragmented Portraits so if your into Tumblr give it follow. If Tumblr is not your thing you can still enjoy all the new images on this site and I will of course still be uploaded them to my Montage Portrait set on flickr.

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Lytro announce their first cameras

Posted on 24th Oct 2011 by lomokev

I wrote about Lytro being set up a while ago but last week they announced their product line up and specs of their forthcoming cameras. Lytro is a company that is bringing cameras to market that uses a technology called “light field photography”. The cameras capture light in a different way to a normal camera. As if by magic, once a photo is taken, the focus can be changed.

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Amit Gupta of Photojojo needs a little help

Posted on 14th Oct 2011 by lomokev

This is Amit Gupta aka SuperAmit as he’s know on flickr & twitter AKA the guy that started Photojojo.

Amit Gupta needs your help finding a bone marrow donor

Amit recently started feeling tired all the time, usually when this happens to a San Francisco start up CEO it’s just “burn out” but unfortunately this was not the case. It turns out he has Leukemia. At the moment he is going through chemo but once done he will need a bone marrow transplant for the best chance of survival. Unfortunately because of his ancestry it’s tough to find a donor as not many people of South Asian decent are on the transplant register. If you are of South Asian decent (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepalis, Bhutan, Maldives, or Sri Lankan) you can get a free mouth swab kit to see if you are compatible donor (if you live in the United States or Puerto Rico).

If your not of South Asian decent or reside outside of the united states you can still help by: re-blogging this tumbler post and generally spreading the word.

Please help, Amit is a super cool guy he works hard and is definitely nice to people so deserves to get through this.

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