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!
A 50cm x 33cm print of my London Cycling image will be auctioned off at the Brighton Twestival tonight (25th March 2010) to raise money for Concern World Wide, a charity dedicated to fighting poverty world wide. Twestival is world wide event where Twitter users met up to socialize and raise money for good causes. If you are not attending fear not as you can also bid online. I don’t mean to blow my own trumpet but last time a print of London Cycling was auctioned off for charity it went for $1000. That said it was in room with a few dot come millionaires before the credit crunch but here’s hopping that the Brighton massive can try and beat that! The iPhone is in the image to give you a sense of the size of the image.
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.
I am giving a free talk at the University of Sussex next week, its open to none students as well so no NUS card required! It starts at 5:30pm on Wednesday the 25th of November.
About to leave the US currently waiting for my flight home. Had a blast at Phoot camp. I had grate fun running my Hot Shots photography courses in San Fransisco. Thanks to everyone who turned up to my book signings / talks. Until next time keep it real.
I leave for San Fransisco on Friday morning at stupid O’clock. First stop on my vist will be to Phoot Camp for the weekend. Phoot Camp is a gathering of 50 photographers from all over where we get together and get creative. Results of Phoot Camp will appear on the Phoot Camp website once its over.
On Monday the 12th at 7:30pm I will be given a short talk and signing copys of Hot Shots at the Book Smith. The talk is called “From casual snapper to published author, a tale of flickr, shoes and serendipity”. If you are worried that I am going to bore the paints off you Flickr has kindly offered to provide wine and nibbles for everyone, this should help ease yourself into my talk.
There is also going to be a 2nd book signing at Chronicle Books on Thursday the 15th of October at 6–8pm. There will be wine and nibbles too, this time supplied by Chronicle books. It will be more of a meet the author low key type of affair.
Chronicle Books is at:
680 Second Street
San Fransisco
CA 94107
I am also running my photography course twice while am in town, once on Thursday 15th to Friday 16th of October and then Saturday 17th to Sunday 18th of October. The cost is $295 for 2 days. There are still a couple of places left on both, for more info on the course check the Hot Shots course page. Mag Cloud have kindly offered 25% off to all attendees on their first magazine purchase. Mag Cloud allows any one to design and publish their own magazine, to find out more about it read my latest blog post about the recent publication “Strange Light” on my here.
If you are going to miss these dates or are nowhere near San Francisco I have some new dates for hot shots courses in the UK:
21st and 28th of November 2009 in Hastings
10th and 11th of April 2010 in Brighton
3rd and 10th of July 2010 in Brighton
18th and 19th of September 2010 in Brighton
To make an inquiry about the Brighton courses contact Garage Studios: http://garage-studios.co.uk/contact for the Hastings course just email me on info@lomokev.com
Whilst I’m San Francisco I am sure my wife will get loads of work done because I won’t be at home distracting her so check out her jewellery at rockcakes.com for all the new things that I am sure will appear quite soon!
My plans for San Francisco are evolving well, as well as running my Hot Shots course twice on the 15th/16th of October and the 17th/18th of October (more details here). I have now arranged a time and a place to speak and hold a signing for my book Hot Shots. It will be at The Booksmith on Monday October 12 at 7:30pm. I am sure that I will be having a few drinks at a nearby bar afterwards as well.
Monday 12th of October 7:30pm The Booksmith
1644 Haight St
San Francisco
California 94117
If you can’t make it to San Fransisco and you reside in the US I can offer signed copies delivered to you door for $21.90 ($16.95 book + $4.95 shipping). If you were going to order a UK signed copy from me it would set you back $33.78 as it has to be shipped from the UK. To get one send your $21.90 to my paypal account: kevin@analogintelligence.co.uk before the 7th of October and once I am in San Francisco I will start mailing them out.
If you are elsewhere in the world and still want a signed copy click here to find out how you can order one.
