The Brits on Onboard

A great write up by Harry Thompson from all the action at this years Brits! Onboard Link

Battersea:

After two weeks shooting in the Alps, its back to the UK for more commissions and workshops with Lapwing Suffolk. Although with a few days off to recuperate from work and play, and having been asked by a good friend to shoot some images of Battersea Power Station earlier in the year, i strolled the streets of Wandsworth Borough, shooting images of the now decommissioned coal power station. Stepping back and using a wide angle, i created some rather nice industrial images of the site:

The Brits 2011: Laax, Switzerland

With a final pipe run and a huge Japan Air in tribute of recent events, Ben Kilner's on top form, flying high during the 2011's Ski and Snowboard festival: The Brits

Seb Kurn, James Foster and Dan Wakeham during this years Brits Freestyle events

Sam Turnball killing the slope-style

Laax For The Brits Competition - Switzerland

Leaving the European Winter X Games in Tignes, France to head East to Laax, Switzerland to shoot my third consecutive Brits Freestyle ski and snowboard competition. This time teaming up with Soul Sports to capture the snowboard action during the week long event.

Trend analysis at the European X Games

Back to the Tarentaise Valley to shoot at the second European X Games and catch up with some good friends. Shooting for WGSN capturing the latest trends and fashions on the slopes . And what an epic week, James Woods clutched a podium place during the ski slope style while Louie Vetto claiming gold in the pipe final this evening.

Waterstones Book Signing - 14th March 7:30 - 8:30

After a wonderful response from the kind staff at Waterstones, Bury St Edmonds, they have arranged for a book signing to run in-conjunction with their regular book evening. Please come along for an evening with light nibbles and drinks and have a look at my debut photography book. See the details below for how you can book onto this event:

Waterstones: 14th March 2011

For More Info:

Waterstones - Arc Shopping Centre

Bury St Edmunds

IP33 3FB

Festival Photos from Blurb:

Below are a few images from my recent talk and book signing at this years Format International Photography Festival from Derby. A huge thanks must be passed on to Rachel Stanley for choosing my On The Road: London to Lands End book as one of the 20 winning street photography books produced by Blurb and featured during the show.

Lapwing Suffolk:

Lapwing Suffolk provides individual learning programmes for young people who have complex barriers to learning. Over the past 3 to 4 months, I've had great pleasure in working with Matt Lucas, a budding Suffolk photographer based in Shotley, Suffolk. Together Matt and I have been out and about organising an exhibition to showcase his work whilst studying with Lapwing over the past two years. With the help of Anna McCarthy, local photographer, and Graphic Designer, Simon Green, we've facilitated Matt to reach his potential and push both personal and educational barriers. This week, as the clouds cleared and the sea wiped by, Matt and I trudged the Felixstowe shores, camera at the ready. Whilst inspiring Matt to shoot more and more, i rolled off some iconic coastal images on a blustery cum bright morning...

Matt's Exhibition will open on the week beginning the 23rd May 2011 until 24th June

Top Floor - Ancient House - Ipswich

On The Road with Age UK:

Over the past two weeks i've been on the road with Age Uk working on a new campaign 'Too Much Too Soon' to help women lobby the proposed second retirement age increase. More soon........

Format International Photography Festival:

It gives me great pleasure to attend the 2011 Format International Photography Festival after an invitation from BLURB to talk about and sign my debut book On The Road London to Lands End. In attendance during the weekend will be legends of street photography Brian Griffin and Joel Meyerowitz.

Saturday 5th March at the Quad in central Derby will be the Blurb bookmaking discusion, while at 4pm i'll be talking about my work as well as signing books. It's a great honour to be involved and many thanks to the team at UK Blurb for inviting me along.

Blurb book signing with Sam Mellish.

Format Festival, Derby

Saturday March 5th

4.15-5.15pm

QUAD Cinema2

School Of Social Entrepreneurs Suffolk

After popping into the Suffolk based School Of Social Entrepreneurs I was delighted to see the guys produced two six foot banners of images taken during their student open day last month. Taken from my i-phone this picture shows how two of the images have been used: