I am excited to announce that I will be exhibiting my photographs in the (fairly) new cafe “Muxima” which is in Bow, and is featured in this month’s Grazia magazine as one of top ten places to visit in East London. It’s an amazing opportunity and I’m honoured to be able to display my work there.

Here’s the description:

An exhibition of photographs showing culture, tradition and ceremony, in and around Kolkata and West Bengal, India. The artist, who resided there for a year, captures still life, people and situations from journeys travelled with colleagues and local friends. Will you be Bengalified?

As a reader of my blog, you’re hereby invited to the Private View:
7th March 7:30-9:30pm
The photographs will be on display from 7th – 28th March

Venue: www.muxima.co.uk
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A few weeks back I had the pleasure of shooting Annelies from the Brighton based band Kovak. It was a long shoot but very rewarding. Not only did Annelies turn up with 5 different outfits, also present were a hair-stylist, the band manager, and other band member(s) with props.

I have found that a secret weapon in such situations is to have a really good sound-system on queue, with Spotify. This allows the subject to pick their music and gets them more comfortable and in the mood to be shot.

Here are the magazine picks, and you can read more to see some of the other shots.

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Whilst in Oslo recently, decided to make the most of an afternoon and set off for the relatively new Oslo Opera House, which opened in 2008. It is in a part of town near the central station and the Oslo Fjord. The area is currently undergoing rapid transformation, with new commercial buildings springing up all around.

What made it fun to shoot was the fact that you can walk all the way up on top of the roof. The number of angles and perspectives available seem endless. During peak season, this area is full of people and tourists. This afternoon there were just a few people around. It felt special, and those that were there seemed to be fully immersed in the intended energy of this design feat.

A few weeks ago I purchased a Nikon Speedlight SB-600. I was so pretty excited when my friend Sabrina visited and agreed to be my photo subject as I couldn’t wait to put the strobe to some good use!

It was a grey and fairly dull afternoon, but I was excited to see what the SB-600 could do, with a great subject of course! I had it set to wireless TTL mode (my Nikon D200 can trigger it remotely without any extra devices, COOL), and I mounted on a tripod to the side. It was a fun shoot, although a bit chilly. But, as the photographer I made sure to provide a thick winter jacket for Sabrina for in between the rounds. A couple of pics are here. I look forward to experimenting with the SB-600 more in the future, comments welcome!

On Saturday, despite a late finish from the London Film School/National Gallery event (written about in a previous post), I was up in the morning to attend a special one-day photography workshop by a successful local Architecture Photographer Jim Stephenson. People attending the course ranged from Property Agents wanting to take better snaps for their marketing material, to hobbyists and serious amateurs and people aspiring to be professionals. The course covered a vast amount of ground, from theory and history, to practical work both indoors and out, to final critique. Jim really “went to town” on this course and I can’t remember a day where I’ve learned so much in a short space of time. I also learned that Jim organises Monthly Photography talks in Brighton by local photographers. I shall certainly be attending and look forward to getting involved in the local photography “scene”. Here’s Jim’s brilliant blog.

An image I snapped on the course.

On Friday night I attended a special screening of 37 short films at the National Gallery, of a recent assignment by the London Film School, where a film that I produced the music for was shown. The film was called Locomotion, and it was written and directed by a good friend of mine, Carl Georg Rødsten. I found it especially interesting to notice the cinematography in the shorts and find parallels with still-image photography. The evening evolved into a beer session in a local Wetherspoons where I got to meet lots of the LFS film students. I am honoured to have been asked by Carl-Georg to make the music for his short, and I couldn’t have done it without excellent mentoring from my cousin Sam Sutton, who is a professional music producer. I had with me my friend Martha McAlpine from Brighton Based Octopus Film. The short film got the most laughs from the audience, being a comedy, and I got to meet the actors who were lovely people. Once a web-based version of the film is published I’ll add a link to it.

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