Jason Larkin

Amazing photograpy from Jason Larkin, took me a while to find the scroll bar, it is there.

Images © Jason Larkin

Chiara Tocci

Chiara Tocci's "The World in One Room"

Images © Chiara Tocci

Corinne Day

RIP Corrine Day the visionary who reinvented fashion photography and made Kate Moss a star. Her grungey, anti-fashion aesthetic lives on.

Jason Bascombe

Photographs from Jason Bascombe's "The British Watershed line" I can help of thinking about Jem Southam's work whilst looking at this series, which is obviously a great thing.

Images © Jason Bascombe

Litter Picking

Really randomly I came across this video, It features yours truly and Leah. Both not looking to excited at the prospect of getting up at for 6.00 to clean a festival. The video is by Joe Wheatley.

Glastonbury Recycling from Joe Wheatley on Vimeo.

Strangelands

Opens this friday at Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff, I'm going to try and make it up.

strangelands: trailer from strange.rs on Vimeo.

Jamie-James Medina

Various photos from Jamie-James Medina's "The Day Music Died" "Soweto Surfing" and various portrits.

Images © Jamie-James Medina

Beso Uznadze

Saw some of Beso Uznadze's portraits in the Photo Gallery in Bristol today.

Images © Beso Uznadze

Gil Scott-Heron

This has been getting a lot of plays from me, very much looking to seeing his performance at Bestival next month.

Simon Amstell

I saw Simon Amstell do some stand up a couple of weeks ago was so jokes.













Here he is at his best.

Them - Mystic Eyes

This song is a real grower and worth a listen to the end even if you arent enjoying the harmonica at the begining, which I personaly think is amazing.

Jane Hilton - Dead Eagle Trail

A while ago I went to Host gallery and saw Jane Hilton's Dead Eagle Trail, A beautifully shot portrait of the modern American Cowboy,

Images © Jane Hilton

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Daniel Swan

I got a really nice package from the very talented Daniel Swan, so I thought I would share his work.

Sophy Monk

"...it's been a tough fight worth fighting, as we all drive along betting on another day.” Charles Bukowski, Gamblers All

I wanted to document the dog races – the hope and despair and the dreams of instant wealth. There is an underclass realism of a subculture dominated by old aged men and like-minded social kin.

I wanted to convey that loneliness and desperation by working with the desolate light, empty spaces, mid 60s décor and symbolic colour. Allied with an economy in decline and a recession over-due, my images describe an aspect of historic British culture struggling to retain a sense of stability and the divide of winning and losing in 2008. Hopefully the images demonstrate more intimately, the reality and consequences of a short cut to short-term wealth.

The photographs in this series were made at the Portsmouth Greyhound Races and The Ladbrokes in Winchester.

Images and text © Sophy Monk

Debut 2010

Realised I haven't posted photos from the Debut 2010 show at Proud Central, Lot's of lessons learnt from the whole experience, thanks to everyone who played a part in the whole exhibition down the line. Photos Courtesy of Tom Hole.

Ice Cream by Sydney Southam

ICE CREAM
SYDNEY SOUTHAM
A film made from 16 mm footage appropriated from my late father's childhood, this piece explores themes of memory, innocence lost, and death. I am using footage depicting my family, shot decades before I was born, to explore my own complicated relationship with my childhood which ended abruptly with the suicide of my father when I was seven years old. Here, Ice Cream acts as a metaphor for a youth that we all experience and mourn once it is gone.

Catch-up

Haven't really said what's been going on with me lately been so busy sorting lot's of things out. To start I have graduated from AUCB and am now entering the big world of photography, to coincide I updated/completely changed my website. (apologies if you have already sen this/sick of me plugging). If you do want to have a look it can be found by clicking here. Feedback/comments always appreciated.