Tom Oldham's Photo Blog

Mystery Jets in a knackered old church in Stokey

Sun, 13 May 2012 13:41:23 GMT

Heavy location, dusty and dirty and all graf'd up, great to shoot these chaps in a different spot, and as a 3 piece too - which makes for a simpler composition if nothing else.

Gaz Coombes looking very handsome

Sun, 13 May 2012 13:34:02 GMT

Superquick, in and out, bang pop shoot on the roof of the label with Gaz Coombes. Cool guy of course, you knew this.

Beach House, all nice

Sun, 13 May 2012 13:32:42 GMT

Getting love for these shots of the very popular Beach House, which is nice.

Grimes, uh huh

Sun, 13 May 2012 13:31:47 GMT

That's it. Probably, almost certainly.

Yup, more Grimes.

Sun, 13 May 2012 13:30:28 GMT

Look, it was a good shoot, ok? Why not enjoy it and share the love a bit. That's what I thought anyway.

Grimes in Montreal

Sun, 13 May 2012 13:28:43 GMT

Am being hounded for more, so enjoy these cautiously please.

The famous Grimes pussy rings

Tue, 01 May 2012 23:27:49 GMT

You probably know the story but it's a mould, of whom I have no idea. Good story and they look alright. *Please note I didn't make any jokes at all in the post. I think I'm getting better.

Stop going on about Grimes will ya?

Tue, 01 May 2012 23:25:18 GMT

I just can't help it. Sue me. Performing at the exclusive Fly show upstairs at The Garage where she delivered wonderfully.

Grimes for The Fly May 2012

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:11:13 GMT

Possibly The Best Fly Cover Ever? Mortreal would have been a long way to go to come back with anything less I suppose but when Grimes slipped in those grillz, popper her collar and gave me that look I knew the journey had been well worth it. The fun didn't stop there - the feature shots she smashed out the park with this dingy grimy urban shithole location that you couldn't have designed better, all of Claire's own choosing. Then beers and relax, Montreal style. Thank you Grimes and Rich at 4AD, you made it for us.

Mahali Hlasa, Riders For Health

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:05:30 GMT

I love Riders For Health. Hopefully you know this already, but in case you don't, I regularly travel to their supported programmes in various African nations to shoot for them. It's always full on, scary, hardcore, a great laugh, worrying and more. The whole team met together in Northampton and I got to shoot some head shots they needed, which was really enjoyable. More info on this wonderful organisation here.

Graham Coxon record shopping for MOJO

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:33:41 GMT

NOW THIS WAS GOOD. Graham Coxon mooching around Soho selecting his favourite 7"s for a feature? Yes. I can help with that no problem. A pure delight, great fun, Linus Lucas holding my shanty softbox aloft amongst the crate diggers. Bloody nice assignment, cheers MOJO.

Beach House for MOJO

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:20:54 GMT

Colder, darker, mysterious tone for Beach House this time, whilst importantly still sitting within the constraints of editorial portraiture of course. Very different experience to shooting them first time out, this image being reached through mutual consent. Yeah.

Felt for MOJO

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:19:13 GMT

One day I'll tell you about going to Lawrence from Felt's flat for MOJO magazine, just not today. OK?

Tom Oldham is a burke

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:10:43 GMT

A proper one at that. I spoke at a really lovely event recently for young Dorset and Hampshire based photographers. Titled: Developing Nicely YPCC, I was nervous about speaking but once I got going it seemed to flow and the work carried over the moments when I was a stattering shambles of a presenter. Though you best judge for yourself. I do enjoy this stuff, always say yes, then try to figure out why over the course of the few months I have to get my material together, then panic the night before and realise what I should have done. The main highlight was being featured in the same arena as the gob-smackingly brilliant artist Stephen Gill (here), so inspiring. Thank you Chris Francis and everyone who sorted this out. I like you a lot.

April 2012 Fly cover with Best Coast

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:57:43 GMT

Digi click thru here for the new Fly issue. Photographically, it's a chuffin belter. The words are funny too. Do you like Fink? I do. He's not in The Fly unfort, but he is here of course.

Best Coast in Austin

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:33:44 GMT

After a day of recce'ing locations, Ben Homewood found this hillside beauty so we jumped at the chance to shoot Best Coast with such a view. The Fly saw them play 4 times out there, and it was great to be stateside, stomping about in blazing heat on a mission to eat BBQ meat and drink bottled beer. SxSW was a musical bonanza but the sight of Snoop Dogg playing on a stage crafted from an enormous Doritos vending machine was a nudge too far for me.

Toy

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:23:20 GMT

Some of them used to be in Joe Lean and The JJJ, but let's not hold that against them. Cool guys (hence the blue tone, done with a blue colorama on a bounceboard) and a great sound. No need to Google Toy, here ya go?.

Graham Coxon for The Fly April 2012

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:13:57 GMT

Just the best shoot with Graham. Illustrated his own backdrop with a fanciful mindfart doodle, and then was also up for shooting the portrait series himself with a cable release. More about that here. Just a great opportunity fully optimised really.

David Byrne in The Times

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:18:33 GMT

Nice to see a nice shot used nice and big. Nicely.

Vint Cerf, Internet Don

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:18:56 GMT

Should say that on his business cards. Was so wrapped in what Vint Cerf was saying I almost forgot I was supposed to be shooting. Launching Life Online, with Virgin Media, I felt truly privileged to be in the room with this guy, who was humourous, erudite, wise beyond belief but completely able to talk to normal folk like me. Incredible, honestly.