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!)
Posted: September 8th, 2010 | No Comments »
I have had work published in magazines all over the world but this one is quite a coup for me. In the July (current) edition of National Geographic I have a picture published on page 36 with an article about the dangers of crossing the road in the US. National Geographic is well known for the high standard of photography so it was quite nice to get a photo shot on a Lomo LCA in there! National Geographic first contacted me in February of this year about the using the image. I don’t get excited about this type of thing until it actually happens and, because of the birth of Matilda, I actually completely forgot about it!
Look out for it, it’s in the issue with a skull on the front. Funny thing is I was not even going to upload the image to flickr! I was at home wondering what to post to Flickr when my wife suggested the cross walk image, I didn’t think there was anything particularly special about it. Must be something special about it as Lisa Båtsvik-Miller the designer of my new book used it on the UK front cover.
Posted: June 24th, 2010 | 5 Comments »
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).
Posted: June 9th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
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.
Check my previous post about the show to find out about who else I will be exhibiting with.
The show will be open on: May 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th, 15th, 16th, 22nd and 23rd from 11am to 6pm.
The show is at:
Flat 8, 72 St George’s Road (opposite the news agent in the new looking building)
Brighton, BN2 1EF
Google map of location
Posted: April 24th, 2010 | No Comments »
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.
Posted: March 6th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Do you want to help the people of Haiti without inflating Simon Cowell’s ego even bigger than it already is? Then you could purchase Onè Respe. It’s a photography magazine curated by photographer Lane Hartwell.
Lane stated putting a magazine together the day the quake struck. She contacted photographers who had shot in Haiti and got them to donate images of everyday Haitian life before the disaster. The result is a beautiful portrait of Haiti before it was devastated. Within 24 hours of Lane starting the project this magazine was on sale on Mag Cloud for $12. The full $12 will go to American Red Cross International Response Fund for Haiti relief because Hewlett Packard (Mag Cloud’s parent company) is paying for all the printing costs. It’s like you donating $12 dollars and getting a free photography magazine out of it. Mag Cloud is a print on demand service that allows anyone to design then start selling a magazine.
I know this post might seem a bit late but Haiti is still in a bit of a massive pickle and is going need an ongoing load of dough to put it back together again.
Posted: February 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
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.
Posted: February 2nd, 2010 | 3 Comments »