Clive was asked to make a short film bounded by the obvious restrictions that being locked-down brings. Given that he had to remain within the confines of his house and garden, he decided to make it about his work and produce a gentle, meditative piece in order to illustrate his influences and approach to stills photography.

The remarkable thing is that he was forced into being creator, producer, director, editor and grader, and has learnt from this process, that he can create a complete a film of the highest quality, all in house (if required).
This means low budget enterprises need not have their quality suffer.

There are 136 different set-ups all beautifully considered and produced.

Link to YouTube :

If you’ve followed John Offenbach’s work over the years you would have seen numerous photographs of Justin Nicholls. One of the first commissioned pictures John took was Justin’s album cover from 1993 of him standing in his pyjamas knee deep in a soft sea. Since then they have collaborated on numerous occasions for various projects as well as personal work.

Last year Justin was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He had two feet of colon removed, chemo and radiotherapy. It was a tough time to say the least. Justin went into hibernation in South Wales while he was recovering. And this year, asked John to take his portrait again.

Harriet Logan joins Rob Williams OBE from War Child and Katie Silver from the BBC to discuss the power of photography and social media throughout War.

The interview was live on Thursday 18th August 2016 on BBC News Facebook. They focus on the image of a dazed young boy in Aleppo that went viral after his home was struck by an airstrike.

A very interesting and thought-provoking watch. To have a look at the interview, click on the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/videos/10153844739752217/

The RNLI have posted a film about Clive Booth’s Islay project on their Facebook page. Click the link below to watch it.

In two days it has had 70k hits. It is good to have been able to have drawn attention to this amazing organisation.

After all we live on a relatively small island, surrounded by water. We often need rescuing and the RNLI and its brave volunteers are there to give it.

https://www.facebook.com/rnli/videos/10153860756423999/

Being both eloquent and feisty at the same time is a gift. As Harriet proves in this honest, heart felt interview….. Read on: 

http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/interviews/tristan_lund_and_harriet_logan_on_collecting_photographs.do

To most people, gun crime is what you see on television and read about in the press. And perhaps  these images by Paul Smith are so fascinating, because it is so alien and yet  so serious, with life changing results, and because details of  a murder by a firearm are a mystery to all of us.

The “Impact” (as Paul has called this series) of such tiny objects traveling at such high velocity causes catastrophic damage.

The reveal therefore, is all the more shocking, that these beautiful, floral (and in some case jewell like) images are in fact photographs of bullets that have been gathered by police forensic teams in a variety of ways, including being extracted during autopsies of murder victims.

Paul photographed them at a very high resolution so that they become large than life.. .38 becomes 2 feet…. so that their detail, construction, damage and power becomes ever so apparent.

For such devastating objects to be turned into such beautiful subjects, is a real testament to Paul’s skill. Each one being so different from the other, yet all produced to do the same job.

If you think they look good here, you should see them as five foot square prints….

I love that he decided to produce this series. The imagination to do it is so typical of his talent.

He is a great photographer.

Yet again John Offenbach has turned in an exceptional series. This time his hand has created images of such delicacy and definition its almost painful. Simple subject, but beautifully interpreted. No one else could do this. How great would it be to produce an advertising campaign that uses photography of this quality? Imagine a poster site featuring anyone of these powerful, elegant images… Or any media for that matter, showing, if not these, then photography using and reflecting images like these, with their undeniable high level of simple excellence. This is bare bones photography, not the fashionable heavily re-touched, clunky, colour images now so popular because of the iPhone. I can guarantee that ‘the man in the street” would stop and be impressed. People are a lot more visually literate than most imagine.

Ed James, my most recent signing, has produced a chilling and intriguing body of work entitled “Murder Weapons”.

These are still life studies of everyday objects that have been used to commit a murder.

I love the way Ed has kept his representation of these often surprisingly mundane objects, simple and uncluttered, thereby keeping the focus on them and so helping to create intrigue and a desire to know more of the backstory behind how and why they were used.

Rather than describe them, here is a link to an article about the work that has appeared in the Mail :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2796983/world-s-weirdest-murder-weapons-pair-stilettos-jar-gherkins-photographer-captures-bizarre-objects-used-kill.html