a few of my derry photos are currently up on burn magazine.. click here or the photo above and please tuck in with a comment, good or bad.
a chance for ex-students to give some back, perhaps :ø)
new years eve, 10/15, san francisco, 2001/2
well – it´s been a tough winter and so a clear out of proof and exhibition prints is on the cards. i´m in the process of organizing this page into a print sales area – all work will be available for purchase via paypal in a variety of sizes and prices, and soon i will load actual photos of the prints ready to dispatch. these are prints which were made-to-scan for specific clients, or exhibition proofs from my ´club class´ (2002) or ´manduwala´ (1997) exhibitions.
for now though, if there are any photographs on my site or blogs which you are interested in please email through my website as all work is available as one off bespoke pieces, supplied signed and dated in hardwood exhibition frames or as carefully packaged prints.
a ¨boxed set¨ portfolio is also being prepared from my ´wasted´ book project. this will feature 10 large dry mounted, signed and numbered proof prints in a hand made, velvet covered presentation box – embossed with the books title. these will be limited to 10 available boxes and the selected prints / product photos will be uploaded soon. the sale of these limited edition, exhibition quality folios will help to fund the work and travel needed to secure a publisher for the final the book.
please get in touch for more info.
renaissance, u.k., 1998
i have moved the posts about editing my first book, ´wasted´, into their own blog so they are more easily accessible.
please click here or the photo above.
the blog has more than 450 photographs i am considering for the book, shot over many hundreds of u.k. and around 60 international commissions over to cover electronic music and new youth culture events since 1998.
there are also a selection of posts about talking through the book idea with david alan harvey, head honcho of burn magazine, and i have tried to write as much as possible concerning my ideas and the direction i hope the book to take.
enjoy :ø)
derry after the after party
i have started a ¨big picture¨ blog, based on the boston globes blog format. right now there is a random selection of work there although i am undecided as to what will be there over time..
click the photo above to view..
40 rolls of 35mm and 6 rolls of 120 which will have been shot from 1994 to 2006.. most of them during the 90´s.
1512 exposures.
this bag of odds n ends has been carried around as i´ve moved house a dozen times and always mean´t to develope them, yet never had the funds to do so.
i´ve always had a habit of living beyond my means photographically, shooting more than i could afford to. these films represent after-parties, photos from india i did not want to see and goodness knows what else.. some are extra rolls from working on commission – `emergency` films i ended up shooting which did not contain magazine-useable photos and therefore did not justify developing.
i think it´s time to do something with them.. i´m still skint and so it´s tempting to sell a couple off on ebay as-is.. pot luck for a buyer.. curiosity is getting the better of me though, so i´m going to keep them.
will post some results here – could be some surprises.
have been making some subtle changes to my web site..
how does it look on your browser?
any thoughts?
the intention, as soon as i have my archive again, (dropped my external hard drive), is to put up more in the ´projects´ section and swap many of the ´folio´ photos for more recent work.
.. so he has just had his first ice cream on a stick..
..and his first party..
apologies for being slack – things have just been very hectic with little Tor Capa, before he begins nursery.
he’s one year old today – unbelievable.
to illustrate that i have not been entirely out of touch with photo-snappery, here is one from working in ibiza last week..
i will post again soon..
i will..
i will.
i’m on maturnity right now.. until tor capa starts nursery during september..
it’s a fantastic time.. very busy as he’s walking at 10 months..
we got back from croatia a couple of weeks ago.. quickly found a beautiful flat on top of a mountain.. settled in.. beate started work again after nearly a year on maternity..
all is well.. just no time to blog.
will try to back date blogs this weekend..
here some photos from the past month or two.
tourism from the italian and german, english and scandinavian parts of europe as well as from within croatia itself is booming in places.
there is antipathy towards some areas of the business.. the all-inclusive resorts with wrist band wearing clients who do little or nothing to feed the local area are reluctantly accepted.
tourism has the potential to be big business here, with so much coastline and crystal clear sea, yet i am told that any profit rarely filters down to people in the form of social benefits or improved infrastructure.
big business has moved in from richer countries and purchased many of the most profitable companies and some people have the opinion that there is little left for the croatians themselves..
i’m trying to say little at this time about discussions i’m having here for the simple reason this is the first week of 5, and in time more will become clear. for now i am just really enjoying the photography, the conversations and seeing where one thing and another will lead me.. easing into it gently.
finding reconstruction in villages and towns is really quite easy – there is a lot of it going on in terms of new housing and development, industry and holiday resorts.. individuals and business moving on.
one of the strangest things i have found in this region is roads-to-nowhere. these grids of high quality roads and pavements have been seen next to minefields and deserted villages… like sprawling suburban or industrial areas, minus the buildings.
some locals allege that corruption is feeding the new construction and conflict of interests benefiting certain individuals.. some say that several new developments are not needed
moving inland, though, the veil of normality is generally thinner.. unable to say much for the time being.. still exploring.. still photographing.. yet some destroyed houses stand alone in villages which were relatively untouched by fighting..
my family and i are spending 5 weeks in croatia at the moment, undertaking 4 or 5 projects with the intention of forming a 10 years after, (or there about), study – during this year that croatia has again been refused entry to the e.u. due to it’s northern border dispute.
the first project is to investigate and document reconstruction along the old front-line, perhaps working across into bosnia as well, and in doing so i thought it best to start at the beginning.. with the devastation.
there are a string of ghost villages.. uninhabited due to landmines or simply because the damage was well beyond repair and also peripheral areas of villages and towns, particularly small towns, where damage has not been repaired due to funds…
more info later.. whilst actually photographing i would like to learn much more than i now know and research specific geographical areas before saying more.
as interesting as the project is it’s also important for me to respect that the war is still very fresh.. neighbors were fighting neighbors in the region i am currently working.
while photographing as positively as possible i have already been made aware of just how close to the surface the friction is.. with one village in particular taking exception to my working there.
it’s quickly become obvious that treading carefully and negotiating access & conversation very gently is the name of the game, even when photographing something as innocuous as a ruined building..
other developing projects are centering around;
-the youth culture movement and punk, bringing young people around the region back together
-tourism and neo-colonialism, which is a double edged sword i’ll expand upon later
-the northern border dispute which is preventing entry to the e.u. and
-finally the poverty problems in serbia which continue to this day due to sanctions imposed after the war.
gratulere med dagen..
17th may is important in the norwegian year – it is the day in 1814 when the countries constitution was settled upon in eidsvoll.
read more about it here.
we had a family day.. here are some snaps..
this year as it turned may 17th norway also celebrated winning the eurovision… alexander ryback came up with a decent violin riff and creamed it.. big congratulations to him..
watch it here if that´s your cup of tea.
a good friend and artist, Hans asked myself and my lover beate to pose with our baby boy, Tor Capa, for an exhibition recently..
here is the snap.
final day for entering fresh milk and i just throw my hat in the ring with these.
final day for entering fresh milk and i just throw my hat in the ring with these.
if you have a few hours spare, check this out.. life magazine have put an archive of their photos online in conjunction with google..
enjoy..
American troops wading from troop carrier towards shore into German artillery fire on Omaha Beach during D-Day, 6th june 1944 invasion of Normandy.
copyright – time inc.
me.. i’m the daddy.
one month old tomorrow, Tor Capa enjoys fishing, philosophical debate and the music of john mclaughlin as well as The Milk..
in the entry before last i posted a story about how the british journal of photography came to be featuring my work in their magazine back in 2002..
i’d been inspired to share it due to some happy coincidences helping one of my students along, and also by the general chatter on road trip.
it seems that someone from the magazine saw it on my blog, (a lightstalkers reader probably), and so the bjp responded by blogging about my blog of the original article, under the title ‘talking about the bjp’.
it is a strange and quietly confidence building happening, which surprises me since the only readers i imagined here were mates and students…
with thanks to olivier laurent…
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