Wolfgang Tillmans

Just been told that wolfgang has some of his books to download as pdf on his website, worth a look because it's free.....

When I met Wolfgang last year

Irving Penn

Only just found out today that Irving Penn died earlier this month aged 92, Irving was one of the most influential photographers of the fashion and famous world. He had this amazing style of mixing classical elegance with minimalism with a long career at vogue his photographs were instantly recognisable for fixing his subjects to there background and never being blurred.

Irving Penn, "Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1948"

Irving Penn "Truman Capote, New York, 1948"

Obhama's People

I mentioned this earlier but I managed to visit Nadav Kander's work whilst it was exhibition at the Flower Gallery in London, thanks to a tip off by Jake Baggerley (whose Chernobyl and Blind series's are great and well worth a look). Was so great to see the work printed big and to such a high quality. the great thing about going to exhibitions is being able to see the small details that are not visible on the interenet such as the word love which is embroided on Reggie Love's Cuffs. Even though this exhibition has now finished it should be touring elsewhere for a while, around the world and blatantly back again in the UK so I really recommend seeing it. I bought the book that went with the exhibition which includes a really interesting foreword by photographic critic Francis Hodgson about the history of portraits.

Hillary Clinton by Nadav Kander

Julius Shulman

This movie looks great.




6 rolls of film processed today more processing tomorrow, scanning on Wednesday so shots of what I have been up to and catch up of my summer to come.

Elliott Wilcox

Spotted in Foam's Talent Issue, such a simple idea carried out so well. Elliott Wilcox

Stories of The eye

Just a quick blog as I can't sleep, Vice are running a photo competition along with Olympus, four categories to choose from (London, eye do what i want, eye travel, eye style) the winner getting a new Olympus pen and a opportunity to exhibit in London, check here for more

Gavin Watson

Gavin Watson has two new books recently the first Skins and Punks carries on from his first book 'Skins' showing more intimite photos of the sub cultures and the movements from one sub-culture into the next.



His third book 'Raving 89' done with his brother Neville, again gives us the perspective of someone who was a part of the movement/sub-culture giving a completely honest account and an account without scrutiny of the subjects. I think this is why Gavin's work is so great, he gives an insiders eye of these sub-cultures. Giving the message or the essance of that culture to the viewer as if they were there themselves.




If you want to check out more from Raving 89 series, the first 35 pages you can get a pdf download by clicking here.