EXIT Gallery Show

Posted on June 28, 2008 | Leave a comment

The EXIT Gallery private view of “A Looking Glass Eye – 21st Century London” exhibition took place on the 26th of June. Its by far the most unique exhibition opening I’ve ever been to. The concept of the show is an interesting one; modern day London as a melting pot of all that it is is mirrored in the montage of images capturing the diversity that is London.

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What a week!

Posted on June 28, 2008 | Leave a comment

Its been an amazing yet ridiculously busy week!

I’ve had three assignments, one of which was the Mandela concert, given two seminars and a full day workshop and had a gallery show opening!
However, as is the life of a freelance news photographer, next week so far has one assignment in the diary!

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Digital Photography & Imaging Show

Posted on June 24, 2008 | Leave a comment

“DPI” is on this coming Thursday and Friday in London. Anyone interested can pre-register for free entry to the event.

Check out the conferences and seminars time table on their web site.
The Guardian’s Sean Smith and World Press Photo award winner Vanessa Winsip will be holding conferences at the event.
I’ll be giving a seminar on press photography and my workflow on both days from 3.45pm to 4.30pm, part of which will be slide shows of work over the years.

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Photoshop Disasters

Posted on June 23, 2008 | Leave a comment

Just came across a blog with tons of Photoshop disasters. Its got a load of really very funny and stupid mistakes made by retouchers / photographers.

My stand in any type of editorial photography is absolutely no Photoshop work outside of traditional darkroom techniques. The second we start to add or subtract anything from our images, we call into question all that we take with our cameras.
However, some tabloid papers and perhaps all beauty magazines retouch their images; sometimes very heavily, and often in a very obvious way. The Photoshop Disasters blog is doing a great job of showing the extent of this.

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A Looking Glass Eye – 21st Century London

Posted on June 23, 2008 | Leave a comment


Just a heads up on a group exhibition I’ve got a few pictures in: A Looking Glass Eye – 21st Century London at the EXIT Gallery, above Soho Books, 121-125 Charing Cross Road, London WC2. 27 June to 12 September.


This summer the EXIT GALLERY at Claire de Rouen Books is putting on a group photography show of London in the 21st Century. A very ambitious project for such a small gallery. The star of this show is London, as seen through the lens of both new and established award winning photographers… Stephen Gill, Valerie Phillips, Wassink Lundgren, Simon Wheatley (Magnum), Peter Marlow (Magnum) and Edmond Terakopian to name a few. Just like the melting pot that is London, this orderly mess makes for compulsive viewing. It’s free and on for over two months.


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"Who you waitin’ for"?

Posted on June 23, 2008 | Leave a comment

How often have you heard that? All it takes is a couple of photographers and almost every passer by will stop and ask “who you waitin’ for”?

The unfortunate thing is that the public, no thanks to programs like the BBC’s Paparazzi, think that every photographer is waiting for a celebrity. People seem to think that the only thing we photograph are celebrities.
Last week I was sent on a door step to try and photograph Abu Qatada who was released on bail. With his family, he’s now living under house arrest in west London, with an allowance to leave the house for two hours per day.
It was rather amusing to see the reaction on people’s faces when my colleagues would answer that we’re actually waiting for Osama Bin Laden’s right-hand man. It must have come as a bit of a surprise to find out that: a) we photograph non celebrities too and b) who their new neighbour is.

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