White Lies 'Holy Ghost'

Here's a few of my favourite photos from the White Lies 'Holy Ghost' video shoot, this particular scene makes up one part of an amazing video directed by CANADA that was all shot on 35mm.  Just the fact they were shooting 35mm blew my mind, let alone the whole recreating the sermon on the mount on a rock out to sea complete with a sheep.  Was such a cool day, and we had a 2 hour lunch of squid and local wine, best day at the office ever I think.

The extras were from a local church re-enactment group, deeply religious themselves and the sight of the guys in beards walking across the water will live in my mind for a long time.  Check out the video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Orl42Y-c4I

Photos taken on Contax T2 (love it!) and Lumix GF1 (love it too!)

Oh! Inverted World - June 16th

erm, well it's already happened and I was on my way to Ben Nevis so this is a bit late but here's the most recent flyer, featuring horses.

Oh! Inverted World - May 19th

It's been two months of ridiculous sunshine since the last Oh! Inverted World, and now we're back at Old Queens Head with Dan Michaelson, I Am Harlequin and Professor Penguin, it's going to be ace.  Here's a flyer, gets you in for £4, and features the Magnolia that's directly outside my window.  For a few weeks in Spring it makes the view beautiful.  Actually come to think of it, appreciating the seasons and the colours they bring really is another sign that I'm getting old....

Michael Kiwanuka 'Tell Me A Tale' EP Cover

Amazing record and Big Active worked a bit of magic with my photograph, taken back stage at the Union Chapel in Angel, and the layout, win win : )

Here's a link to check out the lead track 'Tell Me A Tale', it's an amazing piece of soul imbued with such warmth and joy.

Japanese Voyeurs - Get Hole Video Shoot

Here's a few photos from a day spent in a freezing cold, slimy bunker watching ballet and craziness for the 'Get Hole' video shoot.  Directed by Matt Lambert you can check the video out HERE

    

Contax Round Up - March 2011

Here's a jumble of photos from my replacement Contax T2, damn I'm such a geek about this camera.  It's just the purest photo making tool I know, or perhaps just the laziest with it's minimal controls and beautiful lens.  I've also just learnt that my favourite film Posertra 400VC is being discontinued, well merged with the 400NC, what this really means I don't know but it's another unfortunate milestone in the decline of film.  I found one supplier in South Korea that's still selling it at a reasonable price so I got 30 rolls : )

This mess of photos is from March, an amazing month that saw me travel to Hamburg and Berlin with Michael Kiwanuka and freeze in-front of a room full of journalists at the Foreign Press Association benefit evening for Japan.  After about 20seconds luckily I managed to snap out of it and gave my slide show of Lost Village photos, it was really an honour to be able to show them for such a good cause.  Here's me giving the talk.

Alice Gold 'Runaway Love' Video Shoot

Here's a few photos from the video shoot for Alice Gold's Runaway Love, directed by Tabitha Denholm.  All day there was a spooky succession of ethereal and monochromatic shots leading to an explosive final shot of dance & colour.

It doesn't get better than Hatallica!!!

I've never seen Metallica, pretty much never listen to their music, although I do own a glow in the dark tshirt of there's, but last week there was only one band I had to check out.  HATALLICA, a Japanese cover band playing their first show outside of Japan at The Pipeline in Liverpool street.  It was really dark, the place was packed but everyone was standing well back from the stage.  After a few songs it was like things just clicked, amusement and caution turned into full on lets get the party started rocking out.  They were great, the drummer spent half the time charging around the stage, and I was more into taking live photos than I have been in a while. Hey maybe I need to just shoot cover bands.

Fun times, and the drummer is a legend!