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Garage Studios ~ Studio Lighting Course
I attended this 2 day lighting course at Garage Studios in Brighton back in May and it was fantastic! It really helped me understand lighting and different effects that can be achieved with fairly simple set ups. It was run by the very excellent DarkDaze who was a really inspirational teacher and uber lighting geek. I’d definitely recommend it to any creatives like myself who want to extend their knowledge of studio and location lighting.

Also the first time i am aware of being blogged about, by model Sally Reynolds. Super.

For more images from the pick of the bunch please visit my Flickr stream.

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Garage Studios Flash Photography Course ~ I recently attended a one day course at Garage Studios to improve my knowledge of flash lighting. The day was excellent and jam packed with advice about equipment and technique. Pictured above are two portraits i took of Flickrite Tommy Forbes who was my partner for the day.

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Journey On ~ An event organized by Brighton & Hove City Council to mark the re-launch of their online journey planner. Cogapp created a GPS/mapping tool which was used by cycle couriers and school children at the event to write ‘Journey On’ dynamically onto a Google map using mobile devices. The event ended at Brighton Station where there was a large screen mapping the progress of the participants.

I was on foot photographing the event and uploading photos to Flickr on the move, this content was then being projected on the screens at the station. The highlight for me was meeting Flickr hero Lomokev, who was photographing the event from his brompton bike.

For more information on this project please visit the Cogapp web site

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Booth Museum Photography ~ Nothing says ‘Fun Day Out’ quite like a trip to the local museum of taxidermy. I finally visited the weird and wonderful Booth Museum after years of living in Brighton and managed to get some interesting shots for my personal archive and Flickr stream. The best bit was the selection of Victoriana photos featuring squirrels playing poker whilst smoking cigars.

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National Archives Photography ~ I spent a day at the National Archives in Kew taking photos in their reading rooms and storage areas. The photos that i took were part of a web site refresh being undertaken by Cogapp and were used to help form a brief for the use of photography and how it is used to represent the organization.

It is a fascinating place, housing 1,000 years of historical documents. There are vast storage areas containing the archives, reading rooms for different types of document, restoration teams behind the scenes and other staff and volunteers scanning and digitzing areas of the collection.

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The British Museum ~ During our work designing the British Museum’s new web site i went up to take photographs of the space and of people engaging with it and the exhibits in the collection.

The photos were taken as part of a photography expedition around many of the museums and galleries that we work with, and have since been used frequently for various promotional purposes. The images featured are a selection from a much larger archive.

National Portrait Gallery ~ These photos were taken to kick start the design phase of a new project with the NPG. More info to follow after launch..

The Science Museum ~ General promotional photography taken of the space and of children using our interactives which have been in the museum since the dawn of time.

For more information please visit:

http://www.cogapp.com/home/index.html

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A collection of photos taken in Paris in 2002. I went for a week to research street artists, work which then went on to form the foundation of my dissertation.

On one long walk looking for work by Nemo (top line, middle row), my friend and ended up on a busy shopping street and noticed a seven story building that had been decorated with plastic flowers and a sign saying ‘Electron Libre’.. Upon investigation we discovered an artists squat, complete with indoor city farm featuring chickens and a sheep. In one window i spotted the ‘also women can paint’ protest sign.

During another days wandering we stumbled upon an exhibition by Bob and Roberta Smith entitled ‘It’s not easy being a famous Artist’. The exhibition consisted of a relatively small gallery space filled with handpainted signs which were all slagging off famous artists in a very puerile, but hilarious, way. A couple of favourites were ‘Degas is Mental’ and ‘Martin Kippenberger is a Twat’.

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Photographic Archive ~ A selection of shots from 2000 onwards

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