2nd album due. Albatross hear here. Love it.
Kenyan Stephen did it in less than 3 hours, including his 3 (count 'em 3) toilet breaks. More about Virgin Unite here, the charity arm of the Virgin Group. A great fun team and high spirits all day.
Do you know about Ministry of Stories in Hoxton St? It's a creative writing project with a great vibe and the young journalist participants there are producing a newspaper called Hoxton A.M. which is due to hit the streets (well, Hoxton St) at the end of next week. The MoS is this wonderful idea inspired by Dave Eggers who's work I truly admire, Nick Hornby has set up the UK version and I'm very, very proud and excited to be volunteering there and shooting some features for their paper. You can help too. It's ace.
Toni Brooks, of A Brooks in Hoxton St for Ministry of Stories
Wild Beasts for The Fly
Rest and Be Thankful, near Witchampton. A welcome sight, even if not on foot.
I love you Dorset.
Loads of punchy light, 11 set ups in one afternoon, perfect varied location. Felt like I was back home.
Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury
A beautiful sunny day in Dorset, in the village of my junior school to shoot portraits for Pretty Green with Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury at his lovely homestead. Nick is a genuinely supercool guy with a healthy interest in electronic music, I"m delighted to report.Thanks to Nic Rand for his lighting skills and running about in blazing heat. Results above...
Back in Wimborne St Giles again
They are very young and very cool and sound bloody lovely. Respect I say. More here.
Smith Westerns for The Fly
And as a member and their photo guy, I went down and shot some portraits of the ambassadors. It was fun. I won't explain now why Luc Le Corre of Chorus and Echo is holding a Homer crunk juice container but there is a reason and it makes good sense, I assure you. More about the CVTF500 here.
The Courvoisier Future 500 had a bash
Was bloody good actually, awesome production and a crowd of Shoreditch types bang up for it. Every once in a while it's ok to dip a toe in, surely.
ckOne and MTV party at Village Underground
So Virgin Media have launched Our House - a private members club opening for one month in Soho, London. During this period James McCauley and I will be exhibiting a selection of our live shots from our years of shooting at V festival. We're the official snappers at V and have been for a wee while, so it made sense to throw caution to the wind, put our reputations on the line and have some whomping great big prints (produced by the awesome Spectrumin Brighton) mounted on the beautiful walls at The House of St Barnabas. It's drinks and frolics tomorrow night so don't expect much from me this week. Fingers crossed for a positive reaction. This image is of Lady Gaga, who made a customarily large splash when she played in 2009.
Our House exhibition featuring Lady Gaga
From Virgin Media's Our House exhibition - 16 years of V Festival photography.
Our House exhibition launches featuring Dizzee Rascal
This was a fantastic shoot. More shots from it here, in The Fly April issue. I wanted an electronic feel with the shot, so as to mark out the sound - but as the band have ever so slightly moved away from the nu:rave boom (quite wisely) I wanted this feel to sit comfortably in the urban landscape but positioned within a digital framework. And where better than with East London disappearing behind them at sunset, with a kinoflo cube that cost a fortune but looked bloody ace? Lighting by Tom Andrew and retouch by Neil Pemberton, design by Russell Moorcroft, shot by me. Metronony were cool, the team was ace and nailed the whole look, the shots made the cover and I'm very happy. Not in a smug way, no.
Metronomy for The Fly Magazine, April issue
Here's more info all about him on Grimepedia. Grimepedia? Really? Actually, he's from my hood so I better shut up.
Tinchy Tinchy Stryder
In the new bumber issue of The Fly, Alexander Ebert. The best shoot too.
Love this. New portrait in April Fly mag.
Via the Canon Pro Photographers CPN Magazine featuring bloody lovely content, aside from the fruit of my toil of course. We photographers are supposed to be a cool bunch but, if you're interested, you will find me currently laying on my back, shouting 'YESSSSSSS!' in East London.
The recognition I so desperately crave is here at last
Be Here Now site here
Volume Magazine credit info - thanks chaps
Their rather tasty site here though am sure you know about them, huh.
Guy is Elbow's Elvis
I realise I keep showing this stuff on here. But, you see, I'm proud of all this so I'll probably keep on yelping about it. Volume Magazine has featured Be Here Now in their Black and White issue and it looks ace. I'm stoked. Download the whole issue here.
Be Here Now in Volume Magazine
Elbow. So much love in the O2 for them it nearly exploded. A beautiful show with ace presentation and a simply heart melting performance from these elder statesmen that exuded warmth and a subtle, gentle confidence. Their Be Here Now dyptich will be a classic (I think/hope).
Elbow (and the world's) Guy Garvey
A lovely chance to go shoot some location portraiture with some future greats of fashion - Alex Noble and Fred Butler. Great fun and of course the coolest Dalston locations - a given these days. Look out for these names, you certainly won't miss their work when you see it.