Lost Villages, extended....Bonus Shots

Lost Villages, my exhibition at The Orange Dot Gallery in London, has been extended until September 16th.  It's open 10-6pm every weekday.  If you're interested but can't get along I've put all the photos and some info up HERE.

I had to limit myself to 23 pictures so to compensate I will be posting some extra images from the trip, starting now!

Here are a few portraits from Japan, from baseball loving cowboys to a ship crew at rest and a policeman looking for 'American terrorists' in Sapporo.  Just a few of the amazing people I met along the way, oh and my friend Aki picking wild vegetables around her grandparent's abandoned home.  This is the same location as the photograph I've used in my flyer which comes from the entrance way into their old house.

 Fisherman feeding scraps to the birds in Suzu, Noto Hanto.

 Baseball in Fukuoka, The Softbank Hawks were terrible!

Aboard a small aggregates ship in Itoigawa port.

Sapporo, Hokkaido.  Routine stop of suspicious foreigner (aka me, with beard)

Cat - Biei, Hokkaido.

wtf - vol.3

Being French, burgers and night time frolics...

File under Southfields bug life

I always seem to see these monster bugs when I stumble back home from the night bus, and bang there it is crawling infront of me.  Stag beetles in suburbia, maybe I'll drop everything and spend my time tracking these critters.

Tottori sand dunes

I'm sat at home scanning through a tonne of negs from Japan, quite a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon really, and thought I'd post a couple from the famous Tottori sand dunes.  Almost deserted at 6pm, during the day there's a camel and flocks of tourists.  It's also the location of the dunes featured in the film version of Kobo Abe's 'The Woman In The Dunes'.  It is a stunning novel, bleak and visceral.

Kozushima

Kozushima, Tokyo prefecture, June 2010.

Bug lovin.

Hey all nature lovers, check this out....

Bits.....March 2010 & July 2010

Japanese village acrobats - 1905!!!!

These moves are seriously fresh!!

Lost Villages, the exhibition...

I'm currently back in London choosing photographs for my exhibition Lost Villages, it's happening at The Orange Dot Gallery from 16th - 31st August.  If you want to see old men lifting logs and freaky cats this one's for YOU.

There's a tonne of photos and info on my website http://www.samseager.co.uk/ if you want to find out more.

Best Cake Ever - FACT

When you see a cake like this, you just know...

a) The person receiving it is well loved.
b) Everyone will feel a little wierd from all those chemicals.
c) It's the best cake ever, FACT!

Just look how everything around it looks so boring!  Psychedelic cake wonderment.

I'm in Japan!

As it says on the tin I'm in Japan, three months of travelling through remote across the four main islands in search of lost villages and towns.  Places where aging and depopulation has left small communities to slowly fade away.

I'm posting images on my site so if interested head over to www.samseager.co.uk and check out the 'Japan Section'

Sam
x

Visions Of Trees

I'm currently watching the totally bonkers Snakes On A Plane and editing pictures of Visions Of Trees, check out their awesome tunes HERE.

We had an amazing day last Saturday enjoying the spring sun on Wimbledon Common, face paints, fireworks and a bottle of Hot Damn : )

Rock & Rollin with Semi Precious Weapons

Damn these guys were fun on Friday night, the venue felt half empty until they sucked everyone towards the stage and unleashed some serious rock & roll moves.  Great times!

Friday Fun...

Praise be it's Friday, my brain has bascially melted and I'm er going to watch Lady Gaga. 

Here's a shot that's in this months Fly mag of Ellie Goulding's last day in the studio.  the producer mentioned that this was an upgrade, most of the record was made in his mum's house and it smelled of cat pee. cat pee!

and here's a random office, very box fresh...

and here's a shot from opening night of the gaga tour in Manchester, it was nuts!

Oh! Inverted World March 18th - Viva La Club Maraca!!!!!

Hot off the press is the latest flyer I've laid up for Oh Inverted World, and the last one before I head to Japan for three months on 23rd March.  Like OMFG!  It's a bit mexican day of the dead and based on scan from an old Graphis (think from about 1966).  Seriously Old Graphis annuals are the most amazing cultural time warps, if anyone has any they want to sell let me know.  The few I have were being chucked at work and I rescued them from the tip.

OIW 18th March will be a massive party, there's sets from Slow Moving Millie, Ivan Ink Pen's first full band set and a mystery awesome headline act. wowzers.

The Maccabees _ NME Show / Brixton Academy

Amazing venue, amazing band but the lights were soooooo low! I'm not talking atmosphere low, it was darkness! 

 

Old Contax _ Michael Jackson Shrine

I spent yesterday evening doing my normal Sunday thang, scanning in photos and watching a film (A Prophet - visceral, intense and strangely beautiful).

Had totally forgotten about these, some late night photos of an impromptu Michael Jackson shrine outside the London theatre where Thriller was playing.  Was instantly struck by the sense of time and place I got from looking at them, it was a hot muggy summers evening, full of fun and heading home when we came upon this.  I liked his music and all but felt so disconnected from the sense of loss some people so obviously felt.

Anyway 6months too late here's some shots...

Frisbee Fred Morrison RIP

Imagine inventing the frisbee?  Finding a cake tin, throwing it around on a beach and then selling the idea to a company called Wham-O, it's brilliant!

Fred Morrison passed away today age 90, throw some frisbee love around this weekend.

The last tree

I hope I haven't gone mad! but I just couldn't get enough of the Xmas trees camped out on the streets of London, here's the last one.  Well until December anyway.