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Brighton Corn Exchange window

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Brighton Corn Exchange window

I wanted to start the year off right with a photograph of the glorious Brighton Corn Exchange. I am documenting the redevelopment of this iconic building, a process that is adding new visitor facilities and restoring long-lost heritage features to this historic performance space. The Corn Exchange has the most beautiful

windows that I come back to over and over again, trying to capture their grace and elegance in photographs. On my most recent visit, this window was misted over, giving solidity and definition to its shape. The sunlight on the buildings across the courtyard reflected a warm glow onto the grid of glass panes.

My 100th photo of the week

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My 100th photo of the week

This is a rather momentous photo of the week for me because it is my 100th!

I am pleased that my 100th photo is of the Stephen Lawrence Trust Centre. The Centre was designed in 2007 as both a place of inspiration for young architects and a memorial to Stephen Lawrence, murdered in 1993 in an unprovoked racist attack when he was just 18. It had been Stephen’s dream to become an architect himself.

The Centre is currently undergoing a transformation, both of the physical interior of the building and as a change of use into a co-working hub for up-and-coming

architects from disadvantaged backgrounds. I am very excited to be involved in documenting these changes.

I first photographed the site in March. When I returned last week, I had a very different experience of the building. The altered angle and strength of the sun meant that as light filtered in through the exterior mesh cladding, it created a distinct pattern of shadows that played across the interior space. The effect was unexpected and dramatic, and a reminder of how, in photography, light defines and changes everything. Nowhere is this more true then when shooting architecture. Photos from this project can be found here.

Happy Thanksgiving

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Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing all of you a very happy Thanksgiving. For those of you who are not familiar with the holiday, it has a very simple premise: to spend the day and share a meal with people you love. To this, you can choose to add special food (traditionally roast turkey, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie…), and some time to appreciate what you have and those you love. And that’s about it. So eat up and enjoy the day.

Last year I spent Thanksgiving on Cape Cod, close to where the Pilgrims first landed (the holiday commemorates their first harvest), and home to abundant wild cranberry bogs. Photos of this beautiful landscape in autumn can be found here.

Photographs of local food producers in Sussex can be found here.

Architectural photography

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Architectural photography

About half of the architectural photography that I do is for corporate clients, usually as progress photos of new builds and developments. These projects entail monthly site visits to document how much work has taken place between each shoot. Although the photographs are expected to be a straight-forward record, while I am there I can’t help but look for beautiful light and surprising colours as well.

On one such visit I was intrigued by these markings on a partition wall. Of course they are not an industrial art installation, as I wanted to imagine. Each colour represents a specific completed task, making it easy to know at a glance whether the job has been done, while adding a pleasing pattern of reds, greens, blues and yellows in the process.

Crazy red light of Lewes Bonfire

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Crazy red light of Lewes Bonfire

After three years as an official photographer for one of Lewes’s Bonfire societies, this year I had intended to experience the celebrations as a spectator. At the last minute I grabbed my camera bag. I couldn’t stop myself. It is hard to resist photographing the extraordinary spectacle of Lewes Bonfire, though the lighting conditions are extreme, to say the least, as is the challenge of dodging exploding bangers. The one disappointment is that a still image can never capture

the overwhelming smells and sounds of the experience. For the full impact you need to be standing in the crush of Lewes High Street as hundreds of wildly, crazily-dressed people stream by holding flaming torches and setting explosives alight. For those of you who have never been here on the 5th of November, I offer this photograph as a mere hint of the full-body experience of the night itself. More photographs of Lewes Bonfire can be found here.

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