Tuesday 28 September 2010

Supermundane is good for you.

Supermundane is the pseudonym of Rob lowe,
a multi-disciplined creative who works
as a graphic designer, artist, illustrator,
typographer, and art director in
London, England.
Whether art directing magazine, illustrating
or designing logos his instinctive approach
remains the same. Simplicity is at the heart
of his work whilst producing unquie soultions
that are always relevant and approachable.
His work has been published and exhibited
worldwide including several solo UK shows. And I like it.

Thursday 23 September 2010

AOP Photographers Awards.

The winners of the 2010 Photographers Awards have now been announced - this year the judges have selected 6 Gold Awards and 15 Best in Category Awards. I'm going along tonight to have a look at section one.

The 2010 exhibition will also be showcased at the AOP Gallery in the following three sections:

Section One will be on show from Tuesday 21st September to Thursday 30th September and will feature the images from the Commissioned Advertising, Design and Editorial categories.

Section Two will be on show from Tuesday 5th October to Thursday 14th October and will feature the Non-Commissioned Body, Environment and Object categories.

Section Three will be on show from Tuesday 19th October to Thursday 28th October and will include the following categories: Commissioned Documentary, Innovation, Moving Image and Best Commercial Use of Photography.

The AOP Gallery: 81 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4QS.

Sunday 19 September 2010

LFW 2010 'Street-style'


It's London Fashion week. Here's a few shots from some more street-style I've been doing recently...Lots of beautiful people, clothes and faces. 
Top: A model from one of the shows wearing Alexander Wang sunglasses and an impressive hair-do Below: A fashion writer looking wonderful in Vintage Valentino. Apparently.
- Fascinating, how well prepared each individual was to recite what/where and why they were wearing what they were wearing... An entirely w e l l thought out occasion.

Monday 13 September 2010

tom from tubelord.


This is Tom. he is the Bass player in Tubelord the band, yesterday I was shooting some Press-shots for them in Southeast London, we found an abandoned space by a railway which turned out nice. I'm editing the photos of the band over the next few days...I took this picture of tom because he kept this expression throughout the entire shoot even when the others members were talking or misbehaving, which I thought was endearing.
He looks child-like with his feet upon the bar, as if waiting for the ice cream man to come around the corner? ...I couldn't not take his portrait.

VFNO shoot.


As promised here are a few shots from a recent shoot. See the full feature on brownsfashion.com 

Friday 10 September 2010

Harry Borden - Holocaust Survivors


Holocaust Survivors is a series of portraits of Holocaust survivors photographed by acclaimed British photographer Harry Borden. He has now Photographed over 200 portraits and I was lucky enough to go with him to the first one in London in late 2008.
Harry’s approach has been to focus on each survivor’s dignity and humanity. Each participant is asked to provide a hand written statement to be displayed alongside their image to further personalise the portrait. Avoiding ephemeral lighting techniques of current photographic practice, Harry simply uses available light. The lack of production and the decision to photograph people in their home environment creates an intimacy
Such a strong set of images, I am looking forward to seeing them all, I am expecting a Book?, or an Exhbit? Either way I'm excited... click on the links if you'd like to understand the project a bit more.

holocaustsurvivors.wordpress.com
harryborden.com 

Thursday 9 September 2010

Vogue Fashion's Night Out - London.


I managed to *snap* Miranda Almond from Vogue and Jacquetta Wheeler (Vogue Model) today in the middle of the fashion mayhem in London today...amongst others. Which was fun! 
Jacquetta's legs look deceivingly long yet they stand at a reasonable height together, somethings going on there.
All the same a Fab night! I'll post some more shots from the Night once I've edited them.

Wednesday 8 September 2010

VFNO

Hello!
So here's a quick shot from todays shoot, (whilst the hair and make-up was being done) , I'm in the process of editing as we speak, thought i'd take a little break and post this picture...the shoot will be featured on Brownsfashion.com this Friday and you'll be able to see the selected shots and browse through the feature etc and so on.
I really like this shot. it sums up fashion shoots for me, personally.

.Makemebeautiful.

Saturday 4 September 2010

am


This is a picture I of my Mum, Mrs Hatfield to you... It was taken at around 7am as she was getting ready to go to work in the spare bedroom, she's a Nurse and was pre-assessing and preparing patients who were under going Cancer treatment at the time. I shot quite a few frames although this is my favourite, the shape of her towel on her head reminds me of an Ice cream and her various jewellery pieces and little boxes on the window sill adds to the character of my mum in this shot. Taken on 35mm.

Model Casting - No1



Yesterday afternoon I was doing some model casting for a shoot that's happening next week...we saw quite a few models, who were all beautiful and posed equally so although, this was the first and she court my eye, with little desire or need to pose, she just was. The natural daylight that was coming in from behind me lit her face and body perfectly, also with the added blue hazy colour all over the shot i couldn't not take a few extra shots of her. Her militant pose makes an interesting portrait.
I didn't catch her full name.