Johnny Mørup wrote a piece on me and my use of film and Lomo cameras, the article is in the Danish paper Børsen which I am told is the Danish equivalent of the UK FT. I think it says nice things but I don’t understand Danish so can’t tell. If you want you can download the PDF of the article and give it a little read, that is if you speak Danish.
Posted: May 3rd, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 »The last Hot Shots Course of the year will be on the 21st and the 28th November in Hastings. It’s been a blast teaching them, 7 in total this year with the first in January. Each time I teach it, it slightly changes for the better, I think after running it twice back to back in San Fransisco I have really got it refined now. There are few spots left for the Hastings workshop but it is limited to 8 so if you are interested mail me info@lomokev.com.
Its been a great experience teaching it and I have already got three dates lined up at Grange Studios in Brighton for 2010. I am thinking about running Hot Shots in Manchester, London, New York, San Francisco, Madrid (or Barcelona) and Berlin. If you live in any of those places you can join my mailing list to find out when I am coming to your town info@lomokev.com, also if you e-mail me it will help me gauge potential interest.
The course has been drawing quite a lot of interest, as well as going international it also received a glowing 4 page review from Digital SLR user magazine!
This is how Charlie Griffiths from DSLR User Summed up the course:
“I learned a hell of a lot from Lomokev and his Lomo LC-As. Wandering the streets of Brighton with a bunch of like-minded people, nattering about photography in-between taking pictures, was a fantastic way to spend a weekend – and my photography improved massively I think with Kev and the group’s help, I’ve finally got myself a pair of photographer’s eyes that see potential images everywhere. This is going to be fun.”
I have also been getting great feedback from attendees, check what these hot shooters have to say about the course:
“The Workshop was very well worth my 500 miles trip from Kassel to Brighton”
- topfloor
“Excellent course. My photography improved a ton and I learned some new skills and techniques. I came away with some killer shots. Would take this course again and wish you were coming back to the states sometime soon.”
- Wendy laurel
“I became aware of the photography of Kevin Meredith through his Hot Shots book and later, his flickr photo-stream. Kevin uses a photographer’s keen eye and a poet’s sensibility to create a wonderland of stunning imagery. Taking the Hot Shots workshop is the best thing I’ve done to improve my own photographic vision and creativity.”
- Rob LaRosa
“Hot Shots: The Photography Course was awesome, not only for the actual photography course, but for all the additional photoshop/lightroom help and flickr/file organization tips. As a photographer just starting out, this was the perfect course to help bring me up to speed. The money spent was well worth the knowledge and good times!”
- Joel Maxey
“The talk and the class have been a huge kick in the butt to both my inspiration and out put. I’ve been shooting like mad for no other apparent reason.”
- Lori Orson
“Hot Shots is a Fantstic course. I had loads of fun and learnt a lot too. The group was small and LomoKev ensured everyone got some individual attention. The course has really helped me to think more creatively about my photography. Highly recommend.”
- Caroline Blake
If these testimonials have gone some way to convince you that the Hot Shots Course is worth doing you can out check future dates here of join my mailing list to be the first to find out when I am coming close to your town be e-mailing me on info@lomokev.com. It just leaves me to say a big thank you to everyone who has attended Hot Shots in 2009 and hope there will many more in 2010 and beyond!
Posted: November 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last Mouth Olympus user magazine got legendary rock photographer Jill Furmanovsky and me to compare and contrast the new Olympus Pen E-P1 with a 40 year old Olympus Pen EE 2. We where let loose in London’s Borough Market to shot for an hour or so and then we compared notes. If you ever in the London Bridge area you must check out Borough Market I can’t recommend it enough as a grate place to shot in. I am defiantly going back there at some point with my lomo.
Jill’s conclusion was that the old pen was little limiting. One of the limiting factors is that you can’t focus because the focusing is fixed, you have to shot everything from a distance of 1.5 meters or more. It also had only one shutter speed and it was not obvious what it was but from the sound of the shutter Jill reckoned it was 1/60th. What most impressed me was that the aperture was automatic even though there is no batteries! Jill was shooting with a lot of limitations on the flip side of the coin I wish I had just stuck to one mode when shooting so that my shots had more constancy. I am used to the limiting factors of the Lomo LCA so using the Olymous Pen EP-1 is a bit like being like a kid in a candy shop! You can read my full review of the Olympus Pen EP-1 here.
There is a video of Jill and me in action on the olympus user web site. Olympus user magazine is subscription only magazine so unfortunately it will be a bit tricky to hold of a copy of the magazine with the article in it as it was out at the beginning of the mouth.
This fantastic 40 page magazine landed on my door mat today, well that is a lie I was handed it on my way out by the DHL man. Strange Light was curated in 48 hours buy one Derek Powazek after he found him self amazed buy all the incredible images coming out of Sydney’s recent dust storm. The magazine is published by Mag Cloud and is printed on demand, get yours here. Anyone can publish a magazine with the help of Mag Cloud. The service allows you to design then up load you own magazine and offer it for sail, very clever stuff. And guess what as well as being a grate curator Derek also helped HP set up the Mag Cloud in the 1st place, what a clever chap! You can read about how he went about putting it together in 48 hours on his blog here.
Derek Powazek is a friend and I look forward to seeing him in San Francisco in a few days! Derick and his good wife Heather Champ also wrote the forward to my book Hot Shots. I will be having a signing for Hot Shots and giving a talk in San Francisco on Monday the 12th of October. I am up to quite a bit while I am in San Francisco including running my photo workshops on Thursday 15th to Friday 16th and Saturday 17th to Sunday 18th of October Click here for more info.
The images in the above magazine spread are:
Left: Dusty Dawn buy Mathew Sacco
Top right: Untitled by: Mark Pinto
Bottom right: The Haven, Terrigal by Mike Hartz
There is a small piece about me in Design Week this week. The article is about three photographers who promote themselves online and without agents. There are a few inaccurate bits so just let me set the record straight on a few things:
You can also view the images they used in the article on flickr by clicking on these images:
UPDATE: I have now posted the full lengh review on this blog read it here.
My review of the Olympus pen E-P1 is in the September issue of Digital SLR User. They wanted a fresh perspective on it, I am not really known for my work with digital cameras so they asked me for my opinion. It’s on the shelves in the UK now so go and check it out. On the subject of writing, my book is now back in print after the UK print run sold out in 5 months. You will soon be able to get signed copies from me again, just email me on info@lomokev.com if you are interested, they are £12.99 + shipping (£2.50 UK, £4 EUROPE, £7.96 for the rest of the world including the USA). You can also get them from good old amazon here.
You can see the photos I took with the Olympus pen E-P1 here
I will post an unabridged version of this review on this site at the end of the month so don’t forget to subscribe to this site’s RSS feed.
Posted: August 10th, 2009 | 1 Comment »