Foto 8 Summershow

New position for Rebekah Brooks

Interesting to see that the United Nations knows who is currently in the job market. Well the hair style fits the job description even if the qualifications might need a little hacking around!

Foto8 Summershow

Two of the images from CUBA cubanas y cubanos have been accepted for the Foto8 Summershow 2011. Further information about the exhibition will be posted when I know the details.

Obama releases first picture explaining why it took 10 years to find bin Laden!

Now we can all sleep more easily at night in the sure and certain knowledge that the US is looking after us and has all our interests at the very heart of their policies and actions!!

Again, I apologise for not knowing who took this picture, but if the photographer would like to contact me, I will happily give him or her a credit and a link to their site.

While you’re down there Duchess!!

I apologise for not knowing who took this picture, but if the photographer would like to contact me, I will happily give him or her a credit and a link to their site.

The bridesmaid is witnessing something that she obviously shouldn’t be seeing at her tender age!!

Canon – The MAN’S camera?

Personally, I am more a F64 at 1/15 man, but the sentiment is the same!!

3 Days in December

These images were made on the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex during a particularly cold spell of weather in early December 2010. With average temperatures at -1 centigrade, five degrees below the normal, it was the coldest December in England since records began a century ago.

Forest is a medieval term for a hunting ground, customarily owned by the monarch, in part wooded and setting its own laws. Ashdown Forest was originally a deer hunting forest in Norman times, but over many centuries its trees have also been a source for the fuel needed in the local smelting and iron workings and for the production of timber.

Its 6500 acres is now the largest free public access space in the southeast of England. The Forest has national and international protection as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

26.5 x 35cm – Hard cover, Landscape, 65 pages with 60 images.
Published: February 2011

Strictly Limited Edition of only 200 copies, each numbered and signed by the Photographer.

Seagulls Are Magic West

Many years ago, I saw the simple message, ‘Seagulls Are Magic’, scrawled on a sea wall in the seaside resort of Whitley Bay on the northeast coast of England. It made me smile and I duly recorded it with my camera for posterity. You will soon discover, when you look at this series of images, that ‘Seagulls Are Magic’ has nothing whatsoever to do with seagulls. However, the sentiment of that exclamation, of just being, in that place and at that moment, is very much the same.

‘WEST’ is the first volume from a collection of images of some of the people and places that have caught my eye, inspired me and amused me over the last 35 years.

26.5 x 35cm – Hard cover, Landscape, 210 pages with 100 images.
Published: February 2011

Strictly Limited Edition of only 150 copies, each numbered and signed by the Photographer.

Places of Interest and Little Importance

I didn’t know that I was becoming ill, even less that I was ill, although many of the classic triggers and symptoms of depression were all there in abundance. Nor did I see the significance of what I was choosing to photograph. It is undeniable, however, that the editing process which a photographer’s eye and brain goes through when pointing a camera in this direction or that, when including or excluding a particular subject matter in the viewfinder, is a reflection of their interests and preoccupations at that period in their lives.

‘Places of Interest and Little Importance’ is a visual account of my depression. As a photographer, I believe that during this period, 1999 to 2005, I made images that stemmed from my illness, that are maybe, from my own individual experience of it, about the illness of depression, albeit that I was not aware of these actions at the time.

35 x 26.5cm – Hard cover, Portrait, 76 pages with 33 images.
Published: November 2010

Strictly Limited Edition of only 200 copies, each numbered and signed by the Photographer.

Atados al Mar

Atados al Mar is a photographic study of the 87 buildings on the seafront overlooking the famous Malecon Avenue in Havana, Cuba.

The photographs were taken in 2007/2008 as the restoration work to rescue some of the historical architecture is starting and new 21st century designs are being constructed on the avenue. The Government of Centro Habana and the Office of the Historian of the City have since decided that 28 of the 87 buildings shown in this book are beyond repair and will be demolished.

Atados al Mar is a final record of a past era in the history of the Malecόn as it rebuilds for a new future.