Merry Light in the Dark Festival to you all!

I'm signing off from work tomorrow and wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas. May your festive break be a red flower and some spangly lights in the deep shadow of the midwinter. 

Spanish Sun-lovers

Cards Galore

After a very busy couple of months, I am finally finding time to pick up my camera just for me again and it feels brilliant. Anyone fancy a night photo walk soon?

Blue butterflies

Bloomsbury Anemones

Is this not perfect?

Edinburgh I: art and shopping

Collective gallery at Calton Hill

The underside of Bertille Bak's tapestries.

Princes Street from the hill.

Spoon, a lovely restaurant and cafe.

By far the best purchases of the day.

An exhibition of photography oh my!

Exciting news guys...I'm having a little exhibition of some recent photographs! See below for all that slightly-weird-third-person info. Would love to see you there.

Photographs by Katherine Leedale

Katherine Leedale, performance photographer for The Yard, will be exhibiting recent work at the theatre from 30 October - 11 November.

The Cabinet of Smash and Grab

A hive-like hum, marble veins running through the floor; a man sits in contemplation or to rest his bones; a girl stretches to lay her hand on an obelisk; a woman reaches her camera above her head to steal a shot. An ongoing series of photographs taken in museums.

Local Shift 

A new piece, created especially for this exhibition, exploring Hackney Wick and the surrounding area.

Opening 31 October 7.30-9.30pm. All welcome. 

The Yard Theatre
Queen’s Yard
Hackney Wick
London
E9 5EN 

Kate Tempest at Frank's

I try hard not to play favourites among photoshoots and to love them all equally. However there are those shoots where location, subject, lighting, (or maybe just the stars) align and I particularly like the results. A month or so ago I shot the poet, rapper, soon-to-be novelist and all round brilliant Kate Tempest for her forthcoming show Brand New Ancients (at Battersea Arts Centre in the autumn). We went to the top of the multistorey car park in Peckham, now reincarnated as the brilliant Frank's Cafe and shot at dusk, as the lights were beginning to spark and the twilight lay luminous violet across the city. After shooting there we scampered down onto the streets, surprising the good shopkeeps of Rye Lane with Kate's rhymes. Below, the top image is the one BAC chose, plus a few of my faves.

And here's one of me in action - I wasn't trying to match my trousers to her top, it's purely accidental!

Croatia Part the First

Or, how to take the perfect set of hipster holiday snaps...

 

Marjan Forest is a lovely place for a walk.

 

All the leaves are shaped like hearts.

 

And there's some rusty training equipment in the trees.

 

 

We ate a LOT of sladoled (ice-cream).

None of it looked like this guy though.

 

Split's a bit gritty.

Ex-communist relics hanging about.

1. Buy some expired rolls of film at the market for a pound a pop. (You will later find out that two of them are covered in scratches and dirty streaks of chemicals but don't worry, this is all part of the master plan).

2. Only carry your old Russian camera around with you. Make sure the strap breaks at some point, plunging your camera to the uncarpeted floor of your bedroom and ensuring the already dodge winding mechanism will remain that way forever. 

3. Forget what ISO the film in your camera is, meaning your usually pretty-accurate use of the sunny f16 rule falls by the wayside and half the roll will be wildly underexposed. 

4. Don't be bothered to clone stamp all the dust off your images.

5. Write an ironic blogpost about your pictures, and love them anyway.

Station/ary