Singapore International Photography Festival
I’ve been very honoured recently to have been included in the 2nd Singapore International Photography Festival exhibiting my Thames Town work alongside the works of 47 other photographers from around the globe. From the SIPF website: “The 2nd SIPF continues its purpose to unearth new works and talents while incorporating the theme, Human : Nature, [...]
Shutterspark
My Thames Town work is this week featured on the newly formed ShutterSpark website. Shutterspark was, “created to showcase the work of budding photographers to both the public and potential employers alike, shutterspark blog gives photography BA and MA graduates the best opportunity to promote their work.” Please visit ShutterSpark now and have a look, [...]
Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed 09
Well I have had an interesting week of it with trips back and forth to the Photographer’s Gallery in London. “The reason?”, I hear you ask… Well I have been part of a group exhibition showcasing who they deemed the most interesting graduates from the past 12 months on British photographic courses (I know, my [...]
Thames Town series featured in Deep Sleep Magazine
Deep Sleep is, in the words of it’s creators, “…a quarterly online photography magazine founded by and featuring work from a small group of contributors who share the same office space in Shoreditch, East London. Each issue (published in February, May, August and November) will be on a specific theme and guest contributors are also [...]
Thames Town images featured on 1000 Words Blog
Tim Clark over at 1000 Words has featured my Thames Town work on his blog a little while back so please go over there and check out the blog. It is by far one of the more interesting blogs showcasing and reviewing contemporary photography online. 1000 Words Photography Blog
Thames Town Contact Sheets
All contact sheets relating to the Thames Town project are located here. Please ensure to browse via the in site controls and not with your browser buttons for full functionality.
The Architecture Centre, Bristol
Have been in contact with Jodie Marks of the Architecture Centre in Bristol and they are interested in seeing the continuation of this project if I choose it in view of a possible exhibition in the future. Have a look at their website here: http://www.architecturecentre.co.uk/
Ethical Code
I intend with my images to represent a subject fairly whilst also representing my own viewpoint on a subject. Whilst this in some cases may lead me to portray something in a negative light I will still try to remain fair with my reresentation. My work is concerned more with the concept of our relationship [...]
Overview of Risk assessment -Thames Town
The biggest risk is whether or not I am prevented from shooting by security in the estate. Wilst all indications are that this will nt be the case it is a possibility in any situation. In cas of this happening the project will evolve to document other housing that equally exemplifies the growth of suburbia [...]
Budget -Thames Town
Here is a breakdown of the proposed budget for the Thames Town Project: Flights: Total 1800 Yuan Accomodation: 200 Yuan per night x 10 nights=2000Yuan Film: 30 Rolls 120 Superia 630 Yuan Food: 60 Yuan per day x 10 days= 600 Yuan Travel: Metro -6 Yuan per day, taxis:25 Yuan Developing film: 10 Yuan per [...]
More Pledge :) 29th August 2008
We had the priviledge of Robert Pledge’s advice for another day today as well as a morning lecture fro him about his work with Contact Press Images and their coverage of the Beijing Olympics. Spent a lot of time working on my editwhilst heeding his advice yesterday about how to improve the layout and finally [...]
Robert Pledge! 28th August 2008
Spent the morning tinkering with a few things at uni with my layout and my website before meeting Robert Pledge in the afternoon when he came to help us edit our 8 page spreads. I did my draft what seems like months ago now but in reality was probably a couple of weeks but it [...]
All the fun of production work… Monday 18th August 2008
Spent the day going through all of the Thames Town edit and adding a few images that are worthwhile and making corrections to the original files to make them ready for the layout. Replaced the ones I found to be out of focus last week with sharper images from the shoot as well. Only corrections [...]
I hate retouching scans Monday 11th August 2008
Spent all of Monday on production work on the edit arrived at over the weekend. My god scans take forever to process compared to digital originals, especially on a small laptop… Made it through the 1st 6 images and noticed a couple of problems –the depth of field is short in one of the images [...]
More time sat in front of the laptop… Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th August 2008
Spent the weekend editing the work and reading some works I find help me concentrate on refining my edit correctly –namely Robert Adam’s “Why People Photograph” and various chapters in “Image Makers Image Takers” edited by Anne-Celene Jaeger. By the end of Sunday I was down to about 12 images in an edit that shifts [...]
Recent readings…. Flak Magazine
Been looking at a few different blogs and webzines recently which have been really resonating with my working methods at the moment so thought I would post some links here as much as an aide-memoire as anything. Firstly, I think I may have posted this before but there is a great webzine called Flak magazine. [...]
Further editing –Friday 8th August 2008
Spent the day slowly going through the edit and finding images that work together. I’m sure it will take months before I finally come up with an edit I am happy with and editing image order on a screen is shit. I need to get prints done. To see where I am at with the [...]
Editing -Thursday 7th August 2008
Ok, so finally on to editing the Thames Town project. Getting the images down from 350ish to fewer than 100 wasn’t too tricky by just generating jpegs of all the images and flying through Bridge with them. My poor laptop is suffering enough with the heat here without having to do all the work on [...]
Developing and initial thoughts -Saturday 2nd August –Wednesday 6th August 2008
Returned to Dalian last night but was way too delayed at Shanghai airport to drop the first load of film off at the lab so Saturday morning, after splitting my film into 2 batches, the first batch went in and the second batch went in on Sunday when I collected the initial rolls. I officially [...]
Adios Thames Town! 31st July 2008
I’m sat in one of the 2 open bars in Thames town writing this with a Cold beer and the BBC news on… I didn’t have much film left on me today to use –only 3 ½ rolls of 120, but hopefully I managed to put them to good use. I shot alongside the River [...]
Light was too nice but met a new friend… 28th July 2008
Another great day for a great sunset –but though shit if you need flat lighting. I think the work is usable but it isn’t exactly ideal for what I was looking for –not much I can do except make the most of it though. At least the brightness helps establish that it isn’t England (!) [...]
Article from the Independent on Thames Town and other satellite towns…
Just happened across anther article about Thames Town, nothing really new but does include more about where the other satelite towns actually are around Shanghai -could be useful if I decide t extend the project later. Welcome To Thames Town China by Cliffard Coonan
Around the Lake -26th July 2008
Mostly an uneventful day –spent the afternoon in the park surrounding Thames Lake on the outer edge of the town. I’m not sure how well these images will work with my overall theme but I feel it is in the best interests of the set if it is at least documented. The park is quite [...]
Being followed… Friday 25th July 2008
Returned to Thames town a bit later today and the light was much improved with that sort of hazy slightly red cold that works so well for this kind of subject. Got dropped round the other side today near the more exclusive housing after the great fun of explaining in my limited Chinese where I [...]
