Some images from my recent trip to Morocco, taken on my phone. Yup, that phone. Increasingly I’m finding that when I go away, a phone is all I need for writing, researching, taking photographs, recording audio, and even rough video.
A roadside butchers on the way from Fez to Chefchaouen.
A record store owner in Fez.
Powdered wool dye in the Marrakesh medina.
There’s a stall on Broadway Market that sells hardbound photography books, somewhere around the middle of the market. It also sells the original prints of 60-something London photographer David Hoffman, who lives around the corner. Alas, many of his older photos accrued over 30 years – of the poll tax riots, the Wapping protests – are only available at the stall, but his website has a good archive of recent shots. Hoffman drops by the stall every Saturday to see if the owner has any money for him. And when asked why he’s dedicated his life to capturing these fractious moments of British social history, he simply says “to be there” according to the stall owner. Nice.
**UPDATE*** Funnily enough, on the same day we wrote this post, a story broke in the national about David Hoffman having his house raided for displaying a poster calling David Cameron a wanker.
A couple of my very talented buddies, Linda Brownlee and Jo Metson Scott, are featured with friends in an exhibition opening tomorrow at the Print Space on Kingsland road. The show, titled ‘You me and everybody else’, runs until the 26th May so be sure to get down and check it out as there will no doubt be some great work on view. Check a couple of sneak peaks after the jump.
Steve McQueen, the iconic anti-hero. You can’t get much cooler than this guy.
I met Jane Stockdale a few years ago when she came in to the studio I worked at at the time to show her photos. Since then she has quickly elevated herself to one of the best documentary photographers around these parts.
As a photographer she has a breathtaking ability to not only get herself in places and situations that seem near impossible and potentially life threatening, but also dig out a perfect shot that captures the mood and feeling of the environment before her.
When I first met her I was blown away by her photos and stories and nothing has changed today. I caught up with her in between her busy schedule to ask her a few questions.
Hi Jane. Tell us a little about yourself and how you got to where you are now.
I live in London, studied in Edinburgh and am from a little town in the north of Scotland. I moved to the states when I was 16 to go to high school in New Jersey, started photographing bands on my dads canon AE1-program and have pretty much been taking photos ever since.
Continue reading after the jump for more pictures and the full interview…
NOBODY documents the darker side of life better than Boogie… that man gets into some crazy situations.
Last year I stumbled upon the greatest forum thread I’ve ever seen. It belonged to 28dayslater.co.uk, a community of ‘urban archaeologists’, who explore abandoned industrial buildings across the country. One of their raisons d’etre is to capture what they find in stunning images. This particular thread is of the protagonists – the urban archaeologists themselves – in the places they explore. The majority of the images deliberately obscure their faces, as the pursuit is of dubious legality. The effect is captivating, rendering the explorers as mysterious, Gotham-esque vigilantes.
I also covered the explorers for the Guardian, joining them on a exploration of a Victorian culvert underneath Coventry, and an abandoned textiles plant in Leicester. Check out some more of the best images from the thread after the jump.
Hunter S. Thompson’s Hells Angels photos in my mind are so iconic and capture the style and essence of those 60s outlaws so perfectly.
The work portrays a lowbrow punk aesthetic, a typical Californian style from the 1970’s, he documents the everyday, capturing friends and family in personal and sometimes intimate situations. Similar to work by Nan Goldin and Larry Clark, but Templeton approaches this with a humorous positivity, it doesn’t read like there’s any subtext. There’s no weight or social politics, your viewing a counterculture magazine in a gallery space. These images were taken over the last 15 years, go soak some 90’s nostalgia, the exhibition ends tomorrow but worth catching this empathetic representation of outsider community and the supposed white trash scene. At the Elms Lesters Paint Rooms in London.
Words by Sarah Cross
We all have those moments when sitting up high on the top deck of a bus, watching the world go by when something or someone catches your eye and makes you take notice.
From the Upper Deck captures exactly this moment. This fantastic ongoing photography project by Przemek Wajerowicz is a very simple observation, nicely documented, with some brilliant results that every Londoner can relate to.
Check out the FTUD website where you’ll find daily updates and archives full of great photos. And you never know, you may even spot yourself in one of them. Check out some more of my favourites after the jump.
The Uk have set up the National Archive on Flickr, something the Americans have been doing a while. There are some amazing photos, well worth a look and worth keeping an eye on as more will be added. Thanks to A Continuous Lean for the heads up. more after the jump.
