I’m Jim Stephenson and I run clickclickjim, an architecture + interiors photography firm. This is our blog where I’ll be posting some images from all the shoots we do throughout the year, including many, many images that don’t quite make it to the website and a whole bunch of news, inspiration and thoughts from the wider world of photography and architecture. This will also be a good place to stay up-to-date on the monthly, free, miniclick photography talks I curate.
Hot of the press this one. I’ve just confirmed with the venue and with Chris Floyd, that he’ll be doing the February miniclick talk – Brighton’s free monthly photography talks! The talk will also be the second one we’ve done in association with Hungry Eye Magazine, of which Chris is a contributing editor. Chris is certainly best known for his exceptional portrait photography and it’s worth browsing through his website to check out his work. Whilst there have a look in the Video section at the “The Way I Dress” short films for Mr Porter, which I really like, and the 140 Characters project he did, which was great in concept and execution.
The talk will be on Tuesday February 7th at The Old Market in Brighton & Hove. Doors are at 6:30pm and entry, as always, is free!
Here’s some of his work…
“Chris Floyd is an internationally acknowledged photographer. His work is in the National Portrait Gallery and has also been recognised by the British & American awards for portrait photography, the Taylor Wessing in 2008 & American Photography in 2008 & 2010.
He is also currently working with The Imperial War Museum on a project called ‘The Consequences of Vengeance’, which consists of large format photographs of Dutch launch sites and British impact sites associated with the German V2 rocket, which terrorised London between September 1944 and March 1945.
His commercial work has been published in Wallpaper*, The New Yorker, Guardian Weekend, Esquire & Harpers Bazaar, as well as in advertising campaigns for Agent Provocateur, British Airways, Sony & Toyota.
His most recent project, ‘One Hundred and Forty Characters’, in which he photographed 140 people he follows on Twitter but had never previously met, was inspired by the realisation that he was communicating more frequently and more intimately with people he had befriended on the social networking site than he was with people he had known as real and actual friends for more than 20 years”.
Tuesday, February 7th at The Old Market in Brighton & Hove (11a Upper Market St, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AS). It will kickoff at around 7:30pm (doors at 6:30pm). Get there early as the seats get snapped up quick! Entry is free, but there is a bar there that stays open before and after the talk, so please bring some cash and support the venue by having a drink or two.
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see more of my work.
I recently posted some work I did in Tokyo at Roppongi Hills for Conran & Partners on my blog. Well, whilst there they also commissioned me to shoot their retail project at Futako Tamagawa (also in Tokyo). This project is the first phase of what will eventually become a very large mixed use scheme and by all accounts has proved to be very popular in the city with architects visiting it quite regularly to check it out. As soon as I arrived, the very polite security guard saw my tripod and camera bag and whisked me off into the depths of the complex to issue me with the press pass I needed for the day. I cannot possibly explain how cold I was when shooting this – Tokyo had gone from being pretty balmy (I shot the Roppongi project in just a t-shirt) to arctic in a few days. That said, cracking project to shoot.
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see more of my work.
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see more of my work.
Back in November I headed off to Japan (you may have seen me rattling on about it once or twice, or maybe three times). Whilst there I had a couple of shoots to do for Conran & Partners, who have worked quite extensively in and around Tokyo. One of their largest projects out there is at Roppongi Hills; a mixed use site incorporated housing, managed apartments, offices, retail and leisure facilities. C&P briefed me in the UK and put me in touch with Yohjiro Gotoh, from Design Index, who was to be my “fixer” out there. Gotoh-San helped me out with permissions and some of the equipment hire I had to do as C&P had asked me to shoot some video of the site whilst there to. I really enjoy working abroad. It’s full of new challenges, but is very exciting. Plus it’s almost like a holiday… Below are some of the images from the final edit of the Roppongi shoot, as well as the video I shot for them. Click here to see the other project I shot for C&P in Tokyo, at Futako Tamagawa.
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see my work.
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson, Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see my work. If you’re looking for info on the miniclick photography talks, please click here.
Whilst in Japan, between commissions and arranging camera hires, we did actually get time to have a nice holiday. Generally when I’m on holiday I don’t tend to photograph the traditional tourist spots and sights. I can just buy a postcard pack for that. I stick to photographing architecture, details and little bits and bobs that I know will remind me of the place I’m in. You can get an idea of this on this blog post, of my holiday snaps of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. Anyways, it’s a good job I wasn’t looking to photograph the traditional sights as I soon realised I wouldn’t be able to get anywhere near them – it seemed like everyone had a camera and everyone wanted their photo in front of this spot or that sight. So, I decided to roll with a small project called “People shooting People”. Here’s some of the results…
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see my work. If you’re looking for info on the miniclick photography talks, please click here.
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see my work. If you’re looking for info on the miniclick photography talks, please click here.
In November, I headed off to Japan for a couple of weeks, partly as a holiday but also incorporating a couple of nice commissions for Conran & Partners. Japan, for a long time now, has been a place I’ve been eager to visit. I can now say it’s a place I’m eager to return to (so if anyone wants to send me their on commission – give me a shout). Surprisingly to me, and I’m sure to those who knows me, I didn’t shoot that much architecture out there with the exception of the buildings I was sent to photograph. To be honest, I found that side of it a bit overwhelming and could easily have turned the entire trip into a grand architectural tour. I did try to get to Ando’s Church of the Light outside of Osaka, with photographic intentions, but it was closed the day I had free. Anyways, I concentrated on shooting handheld with my new Lumix GF1 and all the shots here were on that camera.
This post is all about the stills I shot, but I also did a lot of video work to. That’s to follow. In the meantime, this is what Japan looked like to me…
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see my work. If you’re looking for info on the miniclick photography talks, please click here.
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see my work.
Back in March I shot the new Small Batch Coffee Shop in Hove for Chalk Architecture. Since opening the shop has been a huge success, both in terms of the amount of people enjoying their coffee and for the design awards it’s been nominated for (including a WAN Interiors and Design Award). It’s also lead to another shop opening, this time in central Brighton underneath MyHotel in Jubliee Square. When I first moved to Brighton this area was a wasteland and it’s remarkable to see how it’s changed so much, largely due to the Stirling shortlisted new library.
Anyways, Chalk called and asked if I could head over and shoot the new shop. Big thanks to the staff who provided me with free coffee all day (I’m learning to like coffee) and to fellow photographer Harry Watts, Dan and Vic from Conran & Partners, Andrew White, and Kirstin Stride and Lynne Davies from Handmade Brighton for popping in to be my ‘part-time coffee models’.
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, Small Batch has really become a modern Brighton institution – worth popping in if you’re in town.
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see my work.
Just a quick one to let you know there is now a facebook group for the miniclick photography talks and is probably the best way to keep up to date with everything we’re doing.
The miniclick talks (Brighton’s free, monthly photography talks) ended 2011 on Monday with a great talk by Luca Sage. To kick off 2012, we have an equally exciting speaker lined up for you in Ewen Spencer. Ewen was part of our September panel discussion and we had a load of emails and requests on twitter to get him back to do a talk on his own – obviously his work has captured a lot of people’s imagination and I’m really pleased to announce he’ll be speaking for us on January 10th (doors at 6:30pm, talk will start around 7:30pm)…
“Ewen studied under the tutorage of British Photographer Paul Reas and Mark Power and the School of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. He graduated in 1997 and quickly became known for his groundbreaking editorial during the late 90’s for The Face & Sleazenation magazine. He immediately spoke to an audience interested in subcultures, multiculturalism, music, graphic art, photography, fashion and primarily youth culture.
In 2001 Ewen embarked upon a project simply called Teenagers documenting British adolescents as they come to terms with socialising, dating and sex. His signature flash style became synonymous with a close aspect to his subjects. What separated him from other social-documentarians is the feeling you get from the occurs that he knows and likes his subjects, that they trust him enough to allow him entry and that he has an understanding of what’s going on without being embedded in the scenes himself.
The Teenagers project was shown at the Exposure photo festival in Hereford, UK in 2001, as part of “Jam London – Tokyo” showing at both the Barbican in London and the Tokyo Opera House Gallery and was also exhibited at the Rencontre d’Arles in 2004, curated by Martin Parr, where it was shortlisted for the project assistance award.
Not surprisingly, in 2002 Martin Parr tipped Ewen as the most promising newcomer of that year. Commercial clients started calling and he began working with bands, producing cover art and behind the scenes tour material for The Streets & The White Stripes. There’s many reasons why Ewen continues to be a sought after photographer for clients. He’s quick, precise, spontaneous, collaborative, with a great eye for what’s current, on trend and in line with brand objectives. Over the last 2 years he’s produced work for Puma, Sony, Nike, Addidas, Boxfresh, T mobile, Vodaphone and Lastminute.com.
Ewen has continued to pursue his interest in teen culture and in 2005 completed a series of images taking a look at a group of teenagers involved in London’s “Grime” Scene. The project has come to fruition through the publishing of a book and a touring exhibition called “Open Mic.” Works from Open Mic are now included in the Courtauld institute of Arts, Musee d’Elysee in Lausanne and many private collections throughout Europe. The book Open Mic was awarded a yellow pencil certificate by the D&AD in 2005 for Photographic publishing.
The book “Open Mic” remains one of the best examples of Ewen’s work to date and led to him being awarded a commission by Massive Attack in 2010 to produce a short film concerning ideas around cultural pluralism and gangs in Britain”.
Tuesday, January 10th at The Old Market in Brighton & Hove (11a Upper Market St, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AS). It will kickoff at around 7:30pm (doors at 6:30pm). Get there early as the seats get snapped up quick (as anyone sitting on the floor at Luca’s talk will testify)! Entry is free, but there is a bar there that stays open before and after the talk, so bring some cash and support the venue by having a drink or two.
Last night (Tues, Nov 1st), Peter Dench gave a fantastic miniclick photography talk for us and fresh on the heels of that, I’m really happy to announce that Luca Sage is going to be doing our December talk. Luca combines three things that don’t always necessarily go together in a photographer – he’s an extremely talented practitioner, a multi-award winner and an all-round nice guy.
The talk is on Monday, December 12th (talk starts at 7:30pm, doors at 6:30pm)…
“Luca Sage graduated with a first class honours degree from the University of Brighton in 2004. Whilst still at college he was selected for the Schweppes Portrait Prize and was runner up in both the FujiFilm Student Awards and the Spectrum Student Awards. Since then Luca Sage has shoot for various editorial magazines and advertising clients including The Independent on Sunday, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Time Out, Monocle and Hackett Clothing.
As well as his editorial work Luca continues his passion for portraiture; his personal projects have taken him to Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Malawi, Lithuania and Serbia.
Over the last few years Luca has shot predominantly with an Ebony large format camera, which suits his ‘slow’ style of working. His portraiture is a contemplative observation, often in opposition to the mass media representations of these countries. Luca also holds a degree in Social Anthropology and this subject has been integral to his subsequent photographic practice.
Luca has recently won four awards with his images from Cote d’Ivoire. ‘Ivory Coast United’ won the Foto 8 Summershow 2011, KL Awards 2011, LPA Portrait Awards 2011 and the 442 World Football Photography Awards 2011. His portraits have also been selected for the AOP Awards, Onward, DC Fotoweek and the New York Photo Awards. Luca has been selected for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize on four occasions.”
Monday, December 12th at The Old Market in Brighton & Hove (11a Upper Market St, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AS). It will kickoff at around 7:30pm (doors at 6:30pm). Get there early as the seats get snapped up quick! Entry is free, but there is a bar there that stays open after the talk, so bring some cash and support the venue by having a drink or two.
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see my work.
Early on in the summer, which seems like a while ago now, I photographed a small project initiated by RIBA London where a group of Part 1 and 2 architecture students were commissioned to design (and build) a temporary bandstand in front of Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank, London.
It’s fairly rare in architecture for students in their early twenties to get the chance to see a design process all the way from inception to production information, construction and completion, so this was a great opportunity for those involved to get this experience. When completed, the bandstand proved incredibly popular with the public, with events hosted on and around it for the whole summer. These images, and the accompanying video, were commissioned by the students involved.
This is the photography blog of clickclickjim, Jim Stephenson Architectural Photographer. Please head to my website at www.clickclickjim.com if you’d like to see my work.
