Sian Evans' tools

Today I took a portrait of jewellery designer and maker Sian Evans in her studio. http://www.sejewellery.com/ .She has an amazing amount of odd and beutiful specialist tools. Here is a small selection:

I will post some of the portraits soon.

City of London markets on the website:

A full set of images from my City of London markets series is now on my website. You can have a look: HERE

Solarplate

For the last few months I have been so lucky to have access to the printmaking workshop at Camberwell College through a scheme called Artists' Access to Art Colleges.
I have been working on improving my technique in making solarplate prints. Solarplate is similar to photo etching but uses a polymer instead of metal and there is no need for acids to process the plate.
I am making a limited edition artist's book of a series of glass plate negatives found around 20 years ago in an old printing house in the ex GDR. I have always wanted to do something with them and have finally found the right format.
Here are two test prints, a positive and a negative solarplate print of one of the glass plates:

Ajeto Glass

Earlier this year I went to The Czech republic for monocle to photograph the Ajeto glass factory for Monocle's regular The Specialist report. It was published in the current issue. Here is how it looks.

And here are a few that didn't make it into the edit.

In Paddington

I was doing some location photography for a commission around Paddington yesterday. Here's my favourite of the day:

New Spitalfields Market

The last 3 very early mornings I spent photographing at new Spitalfields fruit and veg market to complete my little projects on the city of London Markets. Here are a couple of shots. More to come soon.

Exhibition: Notebook 4

Over the last two weekends we had a little show of wok in progress at the studio and darkroom I share with Heather McDonough, Melanie Stidolph and David San Millán del Río. We all showed something and we also had some loveley wet collodion prints by David Emitt Adams made on the back of 35mm film canisters on display. Here are some installation shots.

 

My prints

 

Mine and David San Millán's prints

 

David Emitt Adams' wet collodion prints.

More at www.thestudionotebook.blogspot.com

Monocle

A couple of months ago I took the pictures for a Monocle magazine culture report about Nobrow, a very nice, independent publisher of illustration books in London. The piece was published in this months issue of MONOCLE.

Enzo

This is Enzo Scocchia, whom I photographed a while ago originally for a commission for The Photographer' Gallery. Another picture I took will be used in the end.
Enzo is the owner of The Spaghetti House in Tufnel Park, which is alocal favourite of mine.

Salford Zine Library

Salford Zine Library will be at Salford Art Gallery from 15 October 2011 to 29 January 2012 showing the archive along side some original artwork, film showings and workshops.

My book TRIP will be included.