Been super busy lately and have not posted here for a month. Lots to write about and not much time to write about it. Since last posting here I went to Phoot camp 2010, gave a talk at Google, visited Twitter and Photo Jojo HQ’s and what seems like a tonne of other stuff! But I am long overdue a blog post about my trend spotting as I have had two sets of portraits published in the Brighton Source magazine. While I am on the subject of my street style pics I am having a exhibition as part of the Brighton Photo fringe of my trend spotting pics which will take place at Behind Reto on Vine Street. Keep checking my blog, twitter or join my mailing list (right hand column) to get all the latest details for that and another show I am putting on over the festival.
Below is the August issue’s selection which include one of Irate (guy on left) who was the 1st person I ever shot in a montage style. Also worth checking out in that issue is the cover article about the Tesco / Starbucks / Big business take over of Brighton and how we should stop it. Well worth a read.
Below are the shots from the September issue which you can pick up from all the usually independent (not Tesco) outlets. Also worth checking out in this issue is the round up of all some of the great fry ups you can get in Brighton.
One question I get asked a lot is how do I take these. To me its pretty obvious as I’ve not changed how I have done it since the 1st time I shot one. Luckily I wrote an article in my new book about how to shoot your own montage portraits. You can download that chapter as a PDF here. If you want to get the other 51 chapters you can find out how here.
How time flies, I should have submitted my latest batch of montage portraits today! (Hopefully I won’t get fired by the editor of The Source!)
The new Source Magazine is out (has been for a while) with my new trend spotting pictures. There’s a small change as Tuaca are now sponsoring street style. If you are picked as the featured person you get a free bottle of Tuaca! Keep an eye on my flickr stream and montage portrait set over the next few days as I will be uploading my new trend spotting pics.
Source was kind enough to mention that I am having a book launch this Thursday (July the 15th) for my new book 52 Photographic Projects. If they mentioned it it must be cool so you should all come! In other news according to Source readers the picture of Ruby is the best trend spotting pic so far, although Stevey of Ophelia Fancy gave her a run for her money this month (above left).
This has been a long time coming, I have not just been fannying around since Hot Shots came out, no sir! I have busy working with the people at Rotervision and have written a new book. It’s called Photo Opp in the USA and 52 Photographic Projects in the UK, both books have the same sweet sweet contents so don’t worry about which one you get!
The new book goes in depth into 52 photographic techniques that anyone can try out with the use of accessible kit. So varied are the topics covered in this book that I enlisted the help of 20 contributors from all over the world. This has helped make the book as varied as possible, click here to read mini bios of the all the contributors and to find links to their websites, flickrs, twitters etc.
Getting you hands on the book
I will be selling signed copies of the book and shipping them worldwide for £22.95 + shipping costs. For deals on buying the new book with Hot Shots click here. You can of course pre-order the book from Amazon UK here or Amazon USA here.
Book Launches / Signings!
To celebrate the book coming out I will be holding 2 UK launches (and maybe more in the future), one in Brighton and one in London. 52 Photographic Projects will be on sale at these events for £20 (rrp £22.99). That’s just 38p a project! Also for people slow on the uptake there will be copies of Hot Shots for sale and signed for the special price of £10 (rrp 12.99).
The Brighton launch will be held on Thursday 15th July from 6.30 pm at Add Colour, Brightons newest café / gallery in the North Laines. When I arranged with the café owner, Add Colour was still being put together. Everything is shiny and new so you’d better be on your best behavior. I will be supplying beers on the night as it’s the home crowd. Once they’ve been drunk we can move on to the the Dorset. Because five of the book’s contributors live in Brighton it should mean that you can get your book signed by them in addition to me. You can join the Facebook event page to keep up to date with all the latest developments.
Add Colour
64-65 North Road (old parking fine office!)
Brighton
Sussex
BN1 1YD
The London launch will be held on Wednesday the 21st July at 6:30pm at Bar Sequence in Islington. Bar Sequence is a great venue as they are, in their own words, “equipped to deliver a unique digital audio visual experience”. Sounds cool. It has seven plasma screens around the bar that can be used to show slideshows and videos, I’m gonna use them to transmit subliminal messages so you that you buy my books and enlist yourself onto Hot Shots the photography course. You can join the Facebook event page to keep up to date with all the latest developments.
Bar Sequence
43 Essex Road (Nearest tube is Angel)
London
N1 2SF
Hope to see you at one of the launches! and if you get my new book I hope you enjoy it!
This months Brighton Source magazine is a bit of a lomokev take over issue! Not only do I have my regular trend spotting section but I also have a shot of the 2008 Beachdown festival, along with a montage portrait of Nick Sayers the organizer of the Brighton Naked Bike Ride which takes place this weekend on Sunday the 13th June. This months trend spotting includes my favorite montage portrait of all time (left), taken of Ruby. She just looks amazing. I will post it to Flicker soon!
Pick up your copy of Source from the usual outlets (every pub / cafe / trendy shop in Brighton town center).
I have posted this is good time this month, usually I end up posting this when supplies of the magazines start to run dry. If you go into Brighton town there should still be lots of Source magazines left in the town’s pubs, bars, cafés and shops. I will be uploaded the pictures below and this months rejected to photos to my Flickr stream over the next few days.
If you want to see some of these pictures in the flesh I have 12 on show at an open house for the next 3 weekends in Kemp Town, Brighton. The images on display are not trend spotting images but a small selection of the people who I think make Brighton such a special place, from fashion designers to a paramedic to the guy who writes the Argus heads lines. At the moment going to the exhibition is the only way to see these images as I have not posted them online yet. I you can’t make it to Brighton you can always check out the montage portraits I have online. If you can make it you can find out more about the show and who else is exhibiting here.
This month it’s a been a double whammy for my montage portraits. They have been published in their regular spot in The Brighton Source magazine. But this month Photo Pro Magazine’s Charlotte Griffths wrote a piece about them in there portrait issue. Both mags are available ‘till the end of the month, I was a bit late with posting this have had a lot on with work and my new little arrival.
The Brighton Source magazine:
Photo Pro Magazine:
I have been using this montage style to shoot a set of portraits of people who make Brighton such a special place. From Dave Sawyers who has swam in the sea all year round for the past 40 years, to Nick Baird a paramedic with 22 years service in the Sussex Ambulance Service, to the super sexy Ophellia Fancy girls. As I have been shooting these portraits I feel it is the start of something bigger and is the beginning of something that I will be doing for long time. At the moment I have not posted any of this new work online, the only place to see it will be at my open house exhibition which will be open every weekend in May.
My trend spotting for Brighton Source magazine continues, the March edition is out now. You can pick up The Brighton Source for free at most cafes and pubs in Brighton. This is now going to be a regular thing with Source, I have already submitted my shots for the April edition so I now have a huge back log of montage images to up load to my montage portrait flickr set.
I also have two of my montages portraits (matthew montage and erinisfunky montage) on display at the Iydea cafe at 17 Kensington Gardens, Brighton until the 30th April. The ones on display are not just straight print outs from Photoshop but are made from real 6” by 4” prints go and check them out.
Am also planing a joint exhibition for the Brighton open house festival witch will be open every weekend of May. I will be showing some un scene montage portraits. For more info on that watch my my blog, twitter or join my my mailing list by mailing info@lomokev.com asking to added.
I have shot the trend spotting section in the February issue Brighton Source magazine, witch is kind of ironic because I am not big on fashion. I shot with my trusted lomo LCA using a montage technique to create highly detailed images, fair more detail that can be delivered from one 35mm film. You can pick up The Brighton Source for free at most cafes and pubs in Brighton. I am really getting into my lomo montages and hope to make this a regular thing with Source.
You can see more of my montage portraits in this flickr set. I also have two of my montages portraits (matthew montage and erinisfunky montage) on display at the Iydea cafe at 17 Kensington Gardens, Brighton until the 30th April. The ones on display are not just straight print outs from Photoshop but are made from real 6” by 4” prints.
