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Just finished a BA Hons reading English at Sidney Sussex College. I now spend most of my time clicking in and around Manchester, venue hunting for shoots and looking where to go next with a camera! (Suggest somewhere to me!)
Favourite photographic subjects:
*Travel Photography
*Moving Light
*Urban Decay
*Religion
I shoot with a Fuji S6500fd and a little Samsung NV8 Also playing around with some instant polaroid thing (Fujifilm Instax 200). Will see how that works out... Some of the older photos (in fact most of them) were taken with a wonderful little Fuji F470 (monsooned-to-death in the Himalaya, RIP).
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~NEWS~
Back in the North! First of the northern shoots now online with REWIRE. Manchester / NW bands / Model Portfolio boosters get in touch!
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Sidney Sussex College Weddings - photos up. Do not order panoramic through the site - contact the photographer!
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C.U.O.T.C. Royal Engineers Wing Dinner (2008) photos now up!
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All comments, suggestions and (constructive!) criticisms greatly appreciated. Just click on the 'contact photographer' bit in each album. Prints can be purchased through this website. Booking prices for promos, headshots, societies, weddings, shows, recitals, bands, gigs and everything in-between can be discussed via email though the site and commissions are always happily received (if not already booked). Have a browse through the portfolio and get in touch!
For licensing and publishing contact the photographer with a decent offer.
Vexations (mono)
19:00 24th Nov - 14:30 25th Nov
Sidney Sussex College Music Society presents:
Vexations - Erik Satie
1 piano
10 pianists
20 hours of continuous music
performed by:
Paul Kilbey, Jamal Sutton, Jesper Carlson, Kim Ashton, James Freeman, Tom Athorne, Sarah Latto, Lydia Slobodian, MatthewTait, Will Buchanan, Joe Scott, and Emily Smith.
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Although Erik Satie wrote Vexations in 1893 its premiere had to wait until 1963, when the experimental composer John Cage organised a performance in New York. Quite why the piece had to wait seventy years for its first performance is, one is forced to admit, not really a mystery. Logistically it is a nightmare, commercially it is ridiculous, and musically it is a trail of endurance for performers and audience alike. However, since its premiere, a considerable number of performances have taken place, some of them lasting as long as 28 hours. Work has even been done studying its effect on the brain. Was all this what Satie actually intended, when he flippantly wrote:
"To play this motif 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, in the deepest silence, by grave immobilities."
at the top of his score? We will never know, and therein lies the vexation.
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These are the mono series taken during (some) of the 20 hour performance. The music was un-nerving and bloody weird, I thought the photos should be too!
SSCMS website:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/sscms
Date taken: 19:00 24th Nov - 14:30 25th Nov
Categories:
Cambridge Life
People
Performance
Old and New Delhi
The first few photographs taken in our final stop and base-camp in the Indian Capital. Drip feed upload so, as ever, check back soon for more pictures.
Photos currently in album taken on Shatabdi Express from Amritsar to New Delhi station (free bottled water, tea, soup, curries and icecream!), walking through the grubby, buzzing and totally peddle-tuc-tuc-grid-locked-heart of Old Delhi toward (and around) India's largest mosque: the Jama Masjid. Shots of Delhi from a minaret in the mosque, and an Old Delhi marching band! Photos of the metro leading to New Delhi; the government cente and India Gate, Humayun's Tomb south of the city, a few pictures from the central bazaar Pahar Ganj (including a very good jalabi stall - I ate them and survived - woo!) and the first few pics from the Qutb Minar - the victory column celebrating the arrival of Islam in India.
Enjoy and check back soon for more Delhi, Agra Fort and the Taj Mahal!
Date taken: September 2007
Categories:
Landscapes
People
Performance
Travel
Wildlife
Amritsar
The first few photographs taken on the second leg of our journey:
After an emotional goodbye to our students and a long (and somewhat nauseating) taxi trip we reached the nearest railway station (Pathankot, approx. 83km from Dharamsala) to begin our journey proper. From there four hours on a local train brought us to the capital of Punjab, our residence for the next 72hrs: the magical, mystifying Amritsar.
Amritsar stood in such stark contrast when compared to the cold, quiet tranquillity of McLeod. As we descended from McLeod to the valley bellow we could already feel the change in temperature. The sky was clear, no cloud or mist to protect us from the blazing Indian sun. Progressing through the Punjab on the local train line we had our first proper introduction to Indians. Until now we had, after all, been living in little Lhasa. Colours became brighter, more intense and contrasting. The three primary colours of McLeod (Red - robes, Green - trees, Grey - mist) disappeared into the clouds we left behind us. The sun beat down on our new palate; pinks, blues, oranges, yellows - all of them splashed so lavishly everywhere.
We arrived in Amritsar. The air tasted hot. The smell of pine and incense gave way to spices and diesel. Every part of the city was alive, crawling, dashing and throbbing with movement. Compared to the little Tibetans the Punjabi men soured like Titians, sword in hand (or 'on belt' at least), striding through the bustling, dirt-encrusted streets, instilled with the pride of India's greatest warrior caste. We stayed in a hotel overlooking the site which we had travelled all that way to see: the Harmandir Sahib, the Golden Temple; the holiest shrine of the Sikhs. I spent most of my brief time in Amritsar taking laps of this temple. The other two in my party had fallen quiet ill on the journey across and were on a strict medicinal diet of hotel lobby food, cold glass-bottled coca-cola and twenty-twenty cricket. They made sure I was getting my daily dose of the latter, but the temple was of more appeal.
One evening took us to Waggah outside Amritsar, one of the few remaining open borders to Pakistan. Here, an elaborate mock-aggressive display of military pomp, peacock fanned hats and pythonesque foot stamping is enacted in a crowd-pleasing show of Indo-Pakistani unity. The crowd was probably the most colourful mosh-pit come rugby scrum I've ever been in. The display left me utterly buzzing with the energy of the crowd, albeit in slight need of a chiropractor. Other pictures show the free meal offered to 30,000 pilgrims per day in the temple (Daal fried, curried chick-pea, chapati and some sweet cake thing - tasty!), one of the luminescent and terrifying temple guards, the night-time procession of the Sikh holy book, pilgrims, and a few shots from the grubby and fascinating surrounding streets. Enjoy!
Date taken: September 2007
Categories:
Landscapes
People
Travel
McLeod Ganj
A selection of photographs (from so so many) taken during a six week teaching placement in McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh, North India. The residence of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in exile, McLeod has become a haven for Tibetan refugees, Buddhist pilgrims and the ever-present kitsch tourist 'Children of the World' who take to playing flutes out of cafe windows and not wearing any shoes. Regardless of that annoyance McLeod is wonderful. The smell of damp pine needles and incense drift across on the breeze with the thick mist - as pervasive, even, as the hippies during the monsoon season - lending to everything a surreal (and, annoyingly for photography, a harsh white glare and slightly blurred) edge. The distance, though rarely visible, occasionally broke through after a good air-clearing storm to reveal the fantastic views into the valley below and up to the Himalaya proper. A marvelous, magical monk-filled place. For anyone going there to shoot I suggest comprehensive camera insurance and the acceptance that nothing, in the second wettest place in India, in monsoon season, at that altitude, will ever, ever truly be what we the British consider 'dry'...
Album updated! More photos of Tsechokling Monestary, bird photos, and now features photos taken from our trek to Triund (9325ft), including a few shots from an impromtu cricket game we had with a few locals at about 5000ft. The crease was situated either side of a very steep slope, one of which we'd just spent the last two or so hours getting up. Needless to say I was glad to not be fielding...
Date taken: August 2007
Categories:
Flowers
Landscapes
People
Sport
Travel
Wildlife
Funky Monks
The first album of many many photographs taken during seven weeks of teaching and touring in Northern India. These few photos were taken during a few hours in HH the Dalai Lama's central temple, McLeod Ganj. Early evening and a few of the local monks congregated for their early evening prayers when a stray dog came and sat down in the centre of the group. One monk gave the dog a cheeky nudge to move it along but it was clearly quite content to stay put. A monk in a past life perhaps?
Addition photos taken in McLeod will be added via drip-feed. Check back soon!
Date taken: August 2007
Categories:
People
Performance
Travel
So, Barcelona...
A few photos from a four day foray into the wonderful city that is Barcelona. Photos include the street performers and bird stalls on La Rambla, the fantastic produce market La Boqueria, the exterior of Gaudi's Casa Batllo and Gaudi's famous chimneys, as well as his masterpiece La Sagrada Familia and some general city shots!
Date added: 16th Jul 2007Categories:
Landscapes
People
Travel
Johns Chapel Tower
Forgot I had these. Shots taken on a very windy day on the highest point in central Cambridge, the roof of St. Johns College Chapel Tower. Wonderful views. Oh for a better zoom and some type of anchor to stop my camera (and myself) from blowing away!
Date added: 12th Jun 2007Date taken: Lent 2007
Categories:
Cambridge Colleges
Cambridge Views
Landscapes
Singing on the River
Sunday 10th June 2007
'Singing on the River', the Choir of Trinity College with Stephen Layton
Please do look at the photos in their full size. The thumbnails don't do the portrait shots justice.
For high resolution digital copies of these pictures contact the photographer with a decent offer!
Date taken: Sunday 10th June 2007
Categories:
Cambridge Colleges
Cambridge Life
Cambridge Views
People
Performance
Cathedrals and Cocktails
A collection of shots taken on day-trips:
*Edinburgh Fringe Festival including some dancing Irish guys and The Caberet of Menace
*A sparing few of the Bullring in Birmingham. And Spongebob. I'm hoping to go back again soon and turn these into a larger album...off the Bullring that is...not Spongebob...
* A day out in York, several hours of which were spent clicking manically in the Minster, visited my favourite cocktail spot 'Evil Eye'. Lovely colours, better cocktails. I've also played around with the contrasts on a few more generic shots with some good results - apologies to the purists...
*Liverpool in the mist. A beautiful city at the best of times, but cloaked in mist it takes on a unique ambience. Another great cocktail bar here - Alma de Cuba, converted from an old church with much of the 1700's interior restored.
* A day out in Chester and several shots of the Cathedral and surrounding city. Beautiful place.
Date taken: Aug 7th (Edinburgh), Sept. 7th 2006 (York), Dec 19th 2006 (Liver
Categories:
Landscapes
People
Performance
Travel
Beach
A selection of photography from many taken during a New Year's Day expedition to Camber Sands in an old London tour bus. The reflections on the beach when the sun was still low were beautiful. A lovely place to click, eat picnic food wrapped in Union Jack napkins and shakily open that first hair-of-the-dog bottle of Stella Artois!
Date added: 4th Jun 2007Date taken: 01/01/2007
Categories:
Landscapes
People
Travel
