I’m moving the blog to my website IP - the blog is now here
I’ve managed to import the content. The template is still pretty basic but I’ll sort things out bit by bit.
The reasons for moving are that I had a bit of a scare when I first offered the small print editions, as [...]
Bear in mind the last time a train track was constructed under Barcelona (last year) half a neighbourhood disappeared into the resulting hole
I’ve had a couple of emails asking what criteria I use to combine pics, and in particular Exotic5 - which some people seem to see as a riff on a set of colours.
There are more hairdressers in Spain, per head of the population, than any other European country. Image is very important. The role of [...]
Thanks for taking the time to comment! As always it is very much appreciated.
The blog is a good place to post singles and work in progress rather than tight sequences, so I’ve been using it a fair bit. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I’ve trimmed down the website a lot - only one [...]
I posted yesterday on John Brownlow’s Streetphoto list, a small selection of single images taken as raw material for the ‘Exotic’ multipiles.
I was delighted and suprprised to find that an old shooting partner from London, Jawed Ashraf, had left a crit of the work.
When I first came across Jawed a numbers of years ago, I [...]
…only dream about it, whereas other people do it. What a great project!
This is probably going to be a very rambling post, so be warned!
Probably the most important thing an artist has to decide is the strategy s/he adopts to carry out the aim of the artwork. It is fundamental, because if the strategy is flawed, then no matter how perfectly conceived and executed the image, the [...]
I’ve had a number of emails from other photographers asking how the print offers were going. Whilst I’m not in any danger of selling out the edition, the response has been much greater than I expected. I’ve shipped two batches, and at times the surfaces of my work room were covered with prints drying - [...]
Tim Atherton has decided to sell small editioned prints. Looking-Glass Editions
These are shot on 8×10. I’m lucky enough to have a couple of prints from this series in my living room, and they are great. Buy now!!
Tim is also much cleverer than me as he has found a way to make the Paypal button [...]
Since posting a slightly critical post concerning 20×200, I’ve now decided I’ve changed my mind. Having received a very full email from Jen B and reading this post I think the idea is good alround.
Between 2000 and 2003, I spent thousands of euros on photography. Equipment, film, paper and marketing - marketing took a [...]
It is a source of immense frustration that I seem to get at least as much interest in old work as new stuff. On my old site, this was all hidden and only accessable if linked to from outside - on the new site, it simply isn’t there. However, my agency sent me a book [...]
Well, not really ‘new’, but sort of. As I wrote in an earlier post, things are starting to move for me - more on this another day - but one of the consequences of having a lot of activity is I need my website to be a lot leaner and easier to get round [...]
I’m on a bit of a high at the moment. Film is building up in the fridge for processing, the weather is now offically hot enough for Sangria, the rollei is working smoothly, and in the last two weeks I’ve had three people come by to look at work with a view to buying, and [...]
I had a customer come to look at some recent work. Whilst he was looking at some of the new trips, he said ‘Kieslwoski - the red movie’
Now, its a long time since I saw ‘Three colours red’ so I didn’t immediately get the reference, so I got the dvd out on loan [...]
I really don’t know where I stand on Jen Bekman’s 20×200 scheme,
The idea of selling my stuff cheap, frankly appalls. I spend thousands of euros a year in film , processing, marketing, attending portfolio reviews. Every step of the way there are mechanisms to extract money from the artist, diverting energy and funds from producing [...]
Went to pick the rollei up yesterday, but I wasn’t happy with the alignement between the viewing and taking lens - seemed to be out by a coupla millimeters, so… next week…
But I thought I could take the opportunity to put to rest some of the ‘pingpong’ slurs I’ve had since I posted the [...]
There ’s not a spanish version of this available due to copyright claims, but roll over maradona…
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Or a Spanish version until it disappears…
… comes back tomorrow! Just in time. Clear blue skies, 22-25degrees. The sun is hitting the streets for long periods and not being blanked by buildings. And I have the day free to work. Having said all that I really don’t want to work on a project - just to take pics, to spend time [...]
For those of you who are streetshooters, HP is sponsoring a competition with first prize being an exhibit at Arles this year.
Gary Alexander has tagged me with the 5 things ‘thing’…
1. I buggered up my A levels because instead of revising I’d disappear out of my bedroom window and go and play in a band. There were girls, alcohol, marijuana, I was young…
2. I was expelled from school when I was 12. I bought dinner tickets [...]
In a number of blogs and lists at the moment there are discussions about finding a gallery - notably here .
One of the pieces of advice that struck home recently was to avoid start-up galleries. Having suffered a fairly negative experience with a startup I passionately agree with this! Another good piece of advice [...]
I can’t believe how badly-informed I am sometimes but… Just found out that in three days there will be the largest retro of Lee Firiedlander’s work ever seen in Europe, based on the last MoMA show. Can’t wait. And for those in the US - something rare and wonderful… the show is free…
In my Oasis project, like many photographers, I’m concerned with the empty spaces, often treated as ‘common ground’, that exist either side of urban development. These places are at best transitory and documenting them is working with an endangered species. British photographer John Davies has been working with OurGround to document these places as they [...]
The rollei has survived initial open-heart exploratory surgery, but now needs a new heart, I mean shutter. A donor has been found and the transplant is scheduled for early next week. In the meantime, some square pics…
Don’t you worry I’ve done hundreds of these. There’s a strong probability you will be impotent and incontinent, but you’ll be alive and that is a result, isn’t it? (Doctor to Peter O’Toole in ‘Venus’ 
I guess one of the people who has had the greatest impact on my work is Bee Flowers. The guy has an insight into art and photography that I find unique. No, ‘nice pic’, commentary from him, just straight critique. After all, who else would start an email ‘oh yeah, and another thing I wanted [...]
Got a new router, plugged it in, still no connection. Logged it with my isp, and I was told it would take up to 10 days to fix…. called last night to check and got the ‘problem, what problem’? spiel, but not to worry as they’d fix it within 10 days… it would take one [...]
Bee Flowers asked if the title for the blog was based upon the fact that my self-image was of being pissed on.
The problem with having a taste for pulp movies is no one ever admits to getting the references! Anyway, in Banderas’s ‘Desperado’ there is a scene in a bar with [...]
The last nine months have been a very fallow time for me. Far too much effort and far too many hours doing the boring stuff needed to pay the bills.
The good news is that I now have space to work on my photography on a regular basis.
My webpage has become unwieldy. I now need [...]
