A mental weekend

This weekend was a hecktic one. I did some work for Vans on Friday, some military images for ASI Magazine and then some promo press shots for New Mastersounds to round it off. Expect to see images from all 3 shoots posted as soon as they are in print. In the mean time, here's a behind the scenes shot of the New Mastersounds shoot.

New Mastersounds Recording

I shot some photographs of the New Mastersounds recording their forthcoming album "Ten Years On" last year for album artwork. While I was there Simon (the drummer) asked me to film the recording of "San Frantico" which he has edited into this short clip. The quality of the visuals isn't great as it was done on a consumer video camera, but the quality of the band is definitely apparent! Check it out.

Just arrived in the post...

Thank you to Paul at ASI for supplying me with a box load of smoke grenades. I've been scheming some big ideas for some new photos and Paul was good enough to help me out with some pyrotechnics... Watch this space!

Album Covershot - The New Mastersounds // Ten Years On

I just received my copy of the latest New Mastersounds album - Ten Years On. This is the Japanese release but there is a global release coming out on 16th November.

I shot the cover with the band last year in Leeds. The photo wasn't originally intended to be used as the cover image but a press shot for One Note Records, it was a popular image however and was selected for use with Satoshi Oguris' design.

New Mastersounds are an amazing band and they haven't failed to deliver with this album.

Click here to hear some of the tracks and find out more...





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Sneak Peak

After what seems to have taken an age is the first of a series of images I shot this summer. There are photos from Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Japan and the US. They were all shot using standard 35mm negative film. The colour is scanned the black and white should be back from the lab this week.

I'm really looking forward exhibiting the whole lot together but until then, heres a few to check out until then.

Back in Blighty - Ryan McGinley Exhibition

I'm back in the UK now and have been wading through an absolute mountain of negatives from this summer, getting them scanned and organised ready for publishing. I shall post a sneak peak later.

In between all this I managed to find some time to go and see the new Ryan McGinley 'Moonmilk' Exhibition, which I thought was stunning. If you have the time to get down to Oxford Street its well worth a trip. Ryan has made some really beautiful photographs.

Greetings From Japan

Things have been a little quite on the blog for a while and this is because I have been on the road shooting some personal work in Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and Japan. Almost everything I have shot has been film so it will be some time before I get the films to the lab to be developed. I will get a few digi snaps shots up in the meantime though.

Having logged into my account after almost a month, I have noticed that one of my most popular images is now (almost) at 30,000 views on flickr. It is the snowboard shot of Vans rider Will Hughes doing a powder turn at night... It also featured on the front of the 50th Special edition of Document Snowboard Magazine. If you haven't seen it, take a look.



More images to follow shortly....

Adverts for Nike

This weekend I had the pleasure of shooting some ads work for Nike in sunny north Devon. The images are going to be used for the forthcoming Nike 6.0 surf campaign and were all shot in Croyde. I shot a whole load of lifestyle and portrait photographs with 4 of their sponsored surfers. We shot all day and into the evening, traveling around the bay to different locations to shoot. Its easy to forget how beautiful Britain is when your stuck in the city but Devon really brings it back. What an amazing place.

I can't reveal much more about the shoot until the ads are in print so I have added two shots of the beautiful hotel I was put up in... can't grumble!

The Abattoir

Its been a little while since I've written on here so I thought it was time for an update. Apart from several small jobs there has been a lot going on behind the scenes.

The main project being a collaboration between myself and artist Sami Graystone. Together we planned, funded and styled a series of art/fashion images in an abattoir.

Sami has a real artistic sense of style and I was excited to work with her on the project. She helped create some bespoke garments and worked on the styling for the shoot.

The images are intended to blur the line between art and fashion, and are intended to be confrontational, anomalous and beautiful all at the same time. We shot them in a giant fridge full of real meat for authenticity and hope to exhibit the full series this autumn. Watch this space.

There will eventually be a short video behind the scenes and there are two sneak previews below in the mean time...