Carnival comes to Provincetown

Posted on September 1, 2017June 1, 2018 by photograph

Carnival comes to Provincetown

For a last gasp of summer fun, I give you Carnival in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Well-known for outrageous costumes and floats, this parade is one of the highlights of the summer season in this small town at the very end of Cape Cod. The theme changes every year and this one was Gods and Goddesses, though I am not

sure where this gingham lady fits in with that motif. I particularly like her pink elephant necklace and the coordinated hair bow, sunglasses and dress. You can find more flamboyantly dressed carnival paraders and photographs of other celebrations here.

Depot Cinema photos on display

Posted on August 18, 2017June 1, 2018 by photograph

Depot Cinema photos on display

This photo of the week is a throwback to last January at the Depot Cinema, taken as part of a two year project documenting the building of this new state-of-the-art cinema in Lewes. I currently have an exhibit of photos from this project in the Studio room of the Depot itself (open daily 10-6). The show runs until 3 September

as part of Artwave, the annual arts festival for the Lewes District. All photographs from this project can be found here.

On 22 August I will be talking with Carmen Slijpen, the Depot’s Creative Director, about the photos and the project. This free event is at 6pm, so please join us.

Graves at the Brighton Dome

Posted on July 20, 2017June 1, 2018 by photograph

Graves at the Brighton Dome

I was called in at short notice to photograph a 200-year-old Quaker burial site discovered at the Brighton Dome during the redevelopment of the Corn Exchange. I made two visits to document the team from Archaeology South-East while they exhumed several of the 15 complete skeletons. The remains have now all been carefully lifted out and moved to an office where they will be cleaned and examined in detail. Decisions are still to be made about whether they will be reburied, cremated or stored for further study.

While that process sounds very clinical, the reality was an utmost care, respect and diligence shown by the archaeologists. It was a painstaking process to find and catalogue every bone from each grave. I was curious to know how it felt to hold a human skull and was told that the first time was definitely a strange experience. For the record, this was one of the most exciting shoots I have ever been on. More photographs from this shoot are here. More information about the burial site can be found here.

Depot at dusk

Posted on July 7, 2017June 1, 2018 by photograph

Depot at dusk

I finished my final shoot at the Depot Cinema in Lewes after two years of documenting the renovation of this disused brewery depot. I had photographed the inside of the building early one morning before it filled with people but there was one

further visit I was planning, waiting for the right light and the right weather. I wanted to capture that softness of dusk on a summer evening when the light turns blue and the building interior glows warm through walls of glass. More photos from this shoot can be found here.

Seven Sisters summer solstice

Posted on June 23, 2017June 1, 2018 by photograph

Seven Sisters summer solstice

Happy solstice. This is Sussex in summer, a glorious time of year when daylight lasts from 4am to 10pm. The Seven Sisters, the white chalk cliffs that line the coast, turn golden with the setting sun, as here at Birling Gap.

More of my landscape photographs can be found here.

You can find a short film of my Depot photographs on youtube here. It shows a selection of 200 shots covering two years of photographing this former brewery depot as it became a state-of-the-art community cinema.

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange

Posted on June 16, 2017June 1, 2018 by photograph

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange

This marks the second anniversary of my photo of the week. Please get in touch if there has been a favourite of yours over the past 85 photos that I have sent out. Just as two long projects finish (one year at Southover Grange and two years at the Depot Cinema), another very interesting one comes along. I am excited to be documenting the renovations of the magnificent, nationally-important Brighton Dome

Corn Exchange. Built in 1808 as a riding house by the Prince of Wales (later King George IV), it sits alongside the Dome (originally a vast stable block), and predates the adjacent Royal Pavilion by several years. I will be photographing the building work over the next 15 months the project will take to complete, so you will be seeing many more photos of this fascinating building.

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