Hackney Wick

I'm back at The Yard theatre photographing in the next few months and as a prelim went to the Hackney canal a few weeks ago to capture some of the residents at play in the sunshine. Previous shoots from The Yard are here, and their website here. Shows are on again now. *Photo note: I've been applying my new-found tilt-shift knowledge to the image of the canal boats and of the little girl playing in the traveller park. I know it's overdone but it looks so lovely.*Fashion note: the crimson, mint green, buttercup yellow, deep purple, and aqua in these shots would be great touchstones for clothing. Clashy goodness. 

Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie

A few images from an agricultural show in Berkshire. Interesting how it feels similar to the one I shot in France last summer.

Order and Chance

I recently completed a five-week evening course at the Tate Modern. Each session, led by artist Sarah Sparkes, looked at a different aspect of the work of artist Alighiero Boetti, currently in exhibition at the gallery. We all made work inspired by the themes that intrigued him - grids, ordering, chance happenings, games, collages, repetition, mark-making and more. At the end of the course we held a small exhibition for friends and family at the top of the Tate building. Below are some images of the creators and their work.

 

A group-created artwork

 

The pieces below are mine.

 

The large piece on the easel is what I would call my final piece - double-exposed photographic prints cut up and rearranged according to certain rules. The final piece is unfortunately too big for my scanner but I've posted my preliminary tests below (you can see where they were displayed on the floor to left and right of the easel). 

(Sorry about the wonky scans)

Dream Pill by Clean Break

Susan

Simone

I was at new client Clean Break last week, photographing their show Dream Pill. It's a very hard-hitting but delicately written and superbly performed piece about two small Nigerian girls who have been trafficked into the UK. The two actors did a wonderful job of conveying this confusing and heartbreaking situation from a child's-eye perspective. At the end of the usual session of production photographs the company asked me to shoot a couple of more portrait-style images of the new cast. Luckily for me, the rehearsal room had beautiful oblique light - I was mentally converting the space to a daylight studio like Irving Penn's (below). I would be a happy photographer if I could shoot everything on a 50mm lens with nothing but natural light! 

Made in China Theatre at Battersea Arts Centre

This was the most fun I've had on a shoot, including the guerilla one in a wood on the middle of Chingford Golf Course. Made in China's Tim Cowbury and Jessica Latowicki (the latter pictured here with actor and collaborator Chris Bailey) create mad, funny, somehow-painful-to-watch shows. We Hope You're Happy (Why Would We Lie?) is on NOW at Battersea Arts Centre, until 25th March. I'm seeing it next weekend, and if the hour I spent with these chaps is anything to go by the show is immense. Get yourselves a ticket.