My new photofilm about Abundance - scrumping for good in Sheffield.
Hanging out with Abundance is the best way to spend Autumn in this city - climbing trees, eating apples,
getting to nosey around people’s gardens. I’m honoured to have been both a volunteer and an observer
of this project over the last couple of years and spent the last season gathering the main material here,
essentially to show off what a brilliant idea it is. With HUGE thanks to Daniele, Tom, Lucy, John, Maddie,
Vanessa, Saskia and all the other wonderful volunteers who didn’t mind me hanging around with my
camera and audio recorder.
Some of my photos were in Cambodia recently thanks to the amazing BlowUp! project, by Akshay Mahajan and the
Blindboys. BlowUp! Angkor ran during the Angkor Photo Festival and is an amazing idea & intervention on the streets.
In their own words:
ideas without the restrictions imposed by (or the necessity to fit) mainstream ‘curatorial’ agendas.
We take the pictures, make A4 laser prints and plan and execute a large scale exhibitions on the Street !’
Photo by Kapil Das, from Angkor Photo Festival blog. See the series I submitted here.
Found.
Came across this recently, from a walk along The Great Wall near Jinshanling back in 2009 when I was living in Beijing. This lady walked with us for quite a while, wanting to sell us bottled water. Instead we ended up talking about her village and I took a polaroid of her and gave it to her to keep.
I have some work in an exhibition in London as part of Photomonth, East London Photography Festival. I’m showing some prints from my recent project, In Between Days in a group show that previewed in Liverpool back in May/June this year. See some more from that series on my website here and about the group project here.
Join us for the preview at Oxford House, Bethnal Green this Thursday, 6th October, from 7-9pm. The publication that accompanied the original show (designed by the great Ben Mclaughlin) will also be on sale.
