I just filmed Pedro Reyes’ conversations at Station to Station at the Barbican for The Lisson Gallery. South American artist, Reyes contucted a series of investigative conversations with a range of different spiritual leaders from Rastas to Shamans, over the course of a weekend and called it Spiritual Speed-date. This is Reyes with a Suffi Muslim and a Catholic Priest.
Pedro Reyes with a Suffi Muslim and a Catholic Priest
Whilst there I wandered into Marcus Coates’ workshop area and took this portrait of him. I’ve enjoyed his artwork since I went to see his classic film…. CLICK HERE!
Marcus Coates portrait
And some of the others
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March 11, 2015 – 12:40 pm
Molly McQueen and Jackie Jibbles portraits
I was asked to shoot portraits and document the performers at Cirque de la Quirk last Friday night. It’s the latest project from the delectable Molly McQueen, formally of noughties band The Faders. Her vision is to create a cabaret party brand that can traverse the festival circuit. There was definitely something of the festival atmosphere as the heady crowd (elaborately dressed in steam punk and burlesque couture) were bedazzled by magicians, dance-offs, hoop-girls and (yes of course) live DJ sets.
Wolfgang Guy Geuth portrait
Rob Voodoo portrait
Party girls portrait
This fine event took place at the strangely named club/bar “The Stillery” in Camden Town. The word “stillery” is a fictional one and a bizarre name for a club space although arguably not quite at silly as its former name of “WKDs” which, in all fairness, really was a bit of a dive. (Remember being regularly forced to go there due to the limited late night options for one last whiskey and coke?) What makes the name even more questionable is the fact that it suggests a distillation process has taken place on the premises at some point in its history. Given that it’s part of the monstrous Sainsbury’s development that opened in 1988 I can safely say that any notion that it was once a distillery is a self-perpetuated myth. Incidentally, the man responsible for this architectural blotch on the Camden landscape is Nicholas Grimshaw (the architect not the smug faced DJ) who I know resides in the area. I hope he weeps each time he pops out for bread and milk.
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February 3, 2015 – 5:32 pm
Angkor is a region of Cambodia that served as the seat of the Khmer Empire, which flourished from the 9th to 15th centuries. Its subsequent rapid decline has been hypothesised to be due to natural disasters such as bubonic plague, earthquakes and drastic climate changes.
Angkor fell further into disrepair under the Khmer Rouge and for some years afterward organised thieves stole hundreds of priceless sculptures and carvings. Through use of shallow depth of field and plastic filters I produced this series as an interpretation of that period of degradation while expressing wider insinuations to the effects of the Khmer Rouge regime as a whole.
This series has also been posted on flickr HERE along with a selection of my other travel photography.
October 19, 2014 – 5:26 pm
Salman Rushdie Portrait
I covered the Pinter Prize for English PEN recently and took this portrait of Rushdie – the winner. I wanted to portray the depth of his creative capacity and the darkness from his past. Shadow seemed the perfect metaphor for both.
September 17, 2014 – 8:18 pm
George Torode Art
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