After Chris Floyd’s excellent miniclick talk on Tuesday evening down in Brighton, I made five big announcements about future events. The first to come round will be the collaboration miniclick are doing with Photobook Show B at Ground Floor Left in Hackney, London.

Photobook Show B is the second exhibition of photobooks that William and Kevin have organised, with the first being in Brighton and catching a fair bit of attention. The London show promises to be equally as good and we’re partnering with them to bring you an afternoon panel discussion on photography books on Sunday 4th March. The panel will consist of some top folk in photo publishing, including…

Photographer and Self-Publisher, Ewen Spencer

“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”.

You can see more of Ewen’s work on his website.

Lecturer, Writer, Curator and Founder of Self Publish Be Happy, Bruno Ceschel

“Bruno Ceschel is a lecturer in Photography at Camberwell College of Arts, London, a writer and curator. He is also the founder of Self Publish, Be Happy (selfpublishbehappy.com), an organization aim to promote and study self-published photobooks. Self Publish, Be Happy since 2010 has organized events at The Photographers’ Gallery, ICA and Whitechapel Gallery in London, OffPrint in Paris and at Flash Forward Festival in Toronto and Boston and its library/exhibition toured various photography festivals in the Summer 2011. SP,BH has publish its first book titled SPBN – Self Publish, Be Naughty in October 2011.

Previously Ceschel worked on the 2008 edition of the Brighton Photo Biennial, as book editor at Chris Boot Ltd, and was associate and creative editor at Colors magazine. He has curated exhibitions at Fashion Space Gallery in London and MiCamera in Milan”.

Check out the Self Publish Be Happy website.

Founder and Director of Here, Harry Hardie

“Here is a company that publishes, exhibits, teaches and supports photography.

Harry has been working with photography for 10 years, starting as the assistant to the director of photography at The Times, London, then as the photo editor for The Times Luxx Magazine.

After The Times Harry worked as director of HOST Gallery, London, before founding Here, an company that publishes, exhibits, teaches, and supports photography.

Harry is also a lecturer in photography at University College Falmouth, UK, and an independent curator.”

Head over to the Here website.

Graphic Designer, Art Director and Founder of oodee, Damien Poulain

“Damien Poulain is a french graphic designer and art director who has lived and worked in Germany, Spain and Italy before settling in East London where he founded his practice in 2003.

Specializing in print-based projects including books, small-run publications and visual communication, Damien Poulain also creates posters and other communication imagery for art galleries, fashion designers and music labels. Ongoing projects include design for sketch gallery, hand-crafted set design for brands, illustrations and installation. His work is versatile and recognised internationally.

In 2011, he has set up a publishing house named oodee, publishing photography books from established to young and raw talents. With oodee, he won recognition by newspapers and magazine like TIME magazine and The Guardian who included some of his books in the best photography books of the year 2011″.

You can see some of Damien’s work on his website, and make sure to visit oodee’s site to.

That’s a pretty bleedin’ fantastic lineup! Ewen, Bruno, Harry and Damien will be picking out some highlights from the exhibition and discussing the ins and outs of contemporary photobooks.

The exhibition runs from March 2nd to March 4th and this panel discussion will be held on the Sunday (4th March), kicking off at 1pm. Entry is free to all, so pop down early and grab a seat!

Ground Floor Left, Enterprise House, Tudor Grove, Hackney, London, E9 7QL

In March and May we’ve teamed up with some top photography and cinema folk from the UK to put on three really exciting collaborations. Finally (!) I can announce what’s going on. So, ladies and gents, in chronological order…

On Sunday March 4th, Miniclick is coming to London to collaborate with Photobook Show B. You can read more about this event by clicking here. Photobook Show A was an exhibition photobooks and other related matter that went down a storm in Brighton in November, so much so that they’ve had to organise a follow up in London, featuring some of the best new and classic photobooks from around the world. The exhibition is going to be help at Ground Floor Left in Hackney and they’ve asked us to curate a related panel discussion on the Sunday afternoon (starting at 1pm). I’m delighted to say that former miniclick speaker, ace photographer and self-publisher extraordinaire, Ewen Spencer will be on the panel, alongside graphic designer and creator of Oodee publishing house Damien Poulain and top publisher, exhibitor and all round nice guy Harry Hardie from HERE. This event will be held at Ground Floor Left and will be free entry.

Fast forward to May 9th and, as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe and in collaboration with the University of Brighton, we’ll be hosting an official Pecha Kucha night at The Old Market in Brighton and Hove. If you’re not familiar with the format, Pecha Kucha derives from the Japanese words for “Chit Chat” and involved a series of short informal talks spread across an evening, with each speaker being restricted to 20 slides and only 20 seconds on each slide. For this night we’re working with the University of Brighton’s Photography and Moving Image courses to feature graduating students talking about their final year projects, influences and processes. Under the tutelage of some outstanding photographers (Pauls Reas, Mark Power, Fergus Heron etc etc) Brighton Uni has been consistently producing outstanding photographers for over 20 years, including previous miniclick speakers Laura Pannack, Ewen Spencer, Murray Ballard and Human Endeavour. This is a great chance to see the stars of the future, working both with stills and video. This event will be at The Old Market auditorium and will be £4/£3

Finally, a huge collaboration with Hungry Eye Magazine and The Duke of York’s Picturehouse sees us taking over the UK’s oldest running cinema for a Brighton Festival Fringe, Sunday screening of Anton Corbijn’s excellent “Control“, with an exclusive Q&A session after with a special guest (who will be announced soon…). This event will be on Sunday May 13th at The Duke of York’s in Brighton. You can read all about it here.

More info to come on this (including an exact date), but I just wanted to do a quick post to announce (very excitedly) that April’s speaker in the miniclick photography talks will be Emma Critchley. Emma was part of an event we put on a couple of years ago and did a great talk on her body of work, which is made up of otherworldly and beguiling portraits and short films all conducted underwater.

Emma’s work has been widely published and she has received numerous awards and accolades for her beautiful images and films (the last two images above are stills from her short films “Reflection” and “A Single Shared Breath”). It’s well worth spending a bit of time on her website to check everything out – you won’t be disappointed!

Dates and times of this talk will be confirmed before Harry Watts’ talk on March 6th.

March marks the start of a very busy couple of months for the miniclick talks, with March, April and May packed with talks, panel discussions and screenings. You can keep up to date with all the news at www.miniclick.co.uk.

Stepping in for March, as part of our programme of free monthly photography talks, is the very talented and very dapper gent Harry Watts. For the past three fours months we’ve been concentrating on photographers that specialise in people, with Peter Dench, Luca Sage, Ewen Spencer and Chris Floyd giving great talks in November, December, January and February respectively. Harry’s work and subject matter brings something completely different to the talks and it promises to be a great evening. Harry will be talking about his own work, his route into photography and also (very interestingly) some of the people he has assisted in the past, including Simon Roberts, Clare Strand and Martin Parr.

The talk will be on Tuesday March 6th at The Old Market in Brighton & Hove. Doors are at 6:30pm and entry, as always, is free!

Here’s some of his work…

“Harry Watts (b. 1987 Winchester, UK) graduated from Brighton University in 2009 with a BA in Editorial Photography. In 2009, Harry was selected by Italian Vogue for a solo exhibition at the Salvatore Ferragamo flagship store in London, and has since exhibited across the UK and internationally. Harry is currently working on the series ILLUSIONS and FINDS, along with this he assists photographer Martin Parr in his London studio”

You can see more of Harry’s work on his website.

Tuesday, November 1st 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 6:00pm). 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.

Hope to see you there!

Following on from Murray Ballard’s miniclick photography talk in October we have Mr Peter Dench coming down to do a talk for us, in association with Hungry Eye Magazine and incorporating the first ever “Dench Diaries Live” (at least, in Brighton…). Anyone who has read Peter’s Dench Diaires will already know they’re a cracking read – the highly entertaining journal of the ups and downs of a sometime-working-pro and one of the brightest British documentary photographers working today.

The talk is on Tuesday, November 1st (talk starts at 7:30pm, doors at 6pm)…

A man holding a can of high strength lager carries a baby on Blackpool promenade. The city has been attracting visitors ever since 1735, when the first guest house opened. In the 19th century, it became a popular working-class destination among the English.

Three Muslim men chat on a bench as a Cobb’s horse parades through the Oxfordshire town of Banbury as part of the annual hobby horse festival.

The Estelle Clifton Dancers in their dressing room change for a show at the Hippodrome Circus in Great Yarmouth, the last remaing dedicated English circus building. Built by showman George Gilbert in 1903, Houdini and Chaplin are once said to have wowed the crowd there.

A woman with a plastic glass of champagne talks on her mobile phone at the inaugural British sand polo event on Sandbanks beach. Sandbanks is a small dune on the south coast in the county of Dorset and one of the most expensive places to live on the planet.

“Peter Dench weighed into the world a hefty 10lb 8oz’s. He was born on the feast of Saint George, the patron saint of England and shares a birthday with Shakespeare, arguably the greatest ever Englishman that has ever lived. From Dench’s first breath the salty air of the English Channel permeated his nostrils, the sounds of seagulls crashed into his eardrums, saturated colours startled the retina; bumper boats, Punch & Judy, arcades, striped deck-chairs. This was his his introduction to England and he was hooked.

Looking through the books of Martin Parr, Greg Leach, Paul Reas and Elliot Erwitt, Dench decided to take photography as a career seriously. If you could travel the world, make people laugh and think, that was a fine way to live. If you could do it with a drink in your hand, that was the life for Dench. Dench has been combining his seaside sense of humour with his passion for photography and drink ever since. His project documenting the imbibing habits of his countrymen picked up a World Press Photo Award. In 2010 he placed second in Advertising at the Sony World Photography Awards. In 2011, England Uncensored – A Decade of Photographing the English, was exhibited at the Visa pour L’image festival of photojournalism.  With hindsight, it was perhaps inevitable that one day the world would see, The Dench Diary, a laugh out lout account of his life as a sometime working pro, in print , video and online for Hungry Eye Magazine”.

Tuesday, November 1st 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 6:00pm). 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.

Hope to see you there!

I’m very, very, very excited to be announcing the new season of MiniClick Photography Talks down here in Brighton. This is the third season of talks and follows on from some excellent speakers over the last 8 months. I’ve been very proud to be able to present some extremely talented folks as part of all this and this season we’ve been able to maintain the level of quality (maybe even up the bar perhaps…)

Here’s who we got (all bio’s by the artist/s)…

Allan Grainger – 7pm. Thursday 5th May, 2011

Allan will be presenting his talk “A Journey from Analogue to Digital”.

‘The photographer’s imagination is no longer shackled by the technology. The Digital Age has brought about a new alchemy devoid of the potent chemistry of the Analogue Age.’

Allan Grainger considers the journey from analogue to digital in a commercial and art photography context. Drawing from his own experiences over 35 years in commercial and art photography he argues that although this shift is the most profound to occur in the history of photography it is only a means to an end.

Allan Grainger has worked as a commercial photographer on commissions for clients such as Play Station, SBB Swiss Railways, Barclays, Reebok, Heineken, and The British Tourist Board. Some of his non-commissioned work includes ‘Losing Connection’, ‘A Price Worth Paying’ and ‘I Am’, a book that took four years to produce and was published by Dewi Lewis Publishing with an unusual foreword by Ivor Cutler.

More of Allan’s work can be viewed on his website.

LGVL – 7pm. Thursday 2nd June, 2011

Lydia Garnett and Vic Lentaigne are two emerging female photographers who collaborate to form the platform LGVL. They met and studied at Brighton University, where they explored the themes of fashion, youth culture, transition, sexuality and identity.

They will talk about how they met, their journey since graduation and why they decided to collaborate. They will describe the ethos behind their first solo show, “Les Chronicles” that opens on May 19th at the Wayward Gallery. As well as talking about their own work, they will talk about the work of other photographers and artists that they admire.

You can see more of LGVL’s work on their website.

Kevin Meredith – 7pm. Thursday 7th July, 2011

I am not what most people would consider to be an average photographer. Armed with a selection of compact film cameras, I never leave home without one and I am always ready to capture anything that happens around me. I always have on going projects witch I am always adding weather it be my photographs of Brighton swimming club, montage portraits or Festival Wellies.

In October 2008 my first solo book Hot Shots was released in the UK, it sold out its UK and US print runs in under a year.  It is an instructional book for everyday people and is intended to help them sex up their photography, without being too bogged down in technical jargon. Since then I have written a 2nd book Photo Op (US title) / 52 Photographic Projects (UK title). This book goes more in depth in to 52 different photo graphic techniques. I have a passion for passing on my knowledge of photography and regularly teach photography courses. At the start of 2011 my 3rd book Toy Cameras was published, this book is lists 40 different toy cameras and lists the quirks.

I have also had work published in two Lomo photographic books, one called “Spirit” and the other, “Don’t Think Just Shoot.” My work has also featured in a range of publications including Photo Pro Magazine, DSLR user magazine, Olympus User Magazine, Russian Esquire, Sonntagszeitung, and the BBC news website. I was a regular contributor to JPG magazine from when it first launched in 2005. In 2006 I was on the panel of judges in New York for flickr.com’s “Blink of the Eye” photo competition and judged again in 2008 for pixish.com’s “The SXSW Gallery Show” competition. I work commercially as a photographer for a range of different clients which have included Phillips, The Times, The Commonwealth Games 2002, Dr Martens, Stomp, Dell and Imogen Heap.

I speak about my work regularly at camera clubs and universities and have even told my story at Goolge’s California HQ. So rather than bang on about my self for an hour I am going to talk abut my influences and the work of other photographers I really admire.

You can view more of Kev’s work on his website.

Human Endeavour – 7pm. Thursday 4th August, 2011

The ‘Human Endeavour’ collective is an evolving platform incorporating different photographers, with the commonality of interest of human intervention and activity in the 21st century. The aim of the collective is to curate and produce work for exhibition and publication, based around a central theme of the sociological effects of modern society upon the human condition.

‘Degeneration’ is an on-going project between four photographers Alex Currie, Richard Chivers, Simon Carruthers and Oliver Perrott, produced and curated from its inception as a whole body of work, it currently incorporates the metropolitan conurbations of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Salford, Sheffield, Birmingham, Cardiff, London, Bristol and Portsmouth.

With Degeneration being a research led project, the objective is to take a look at the state of housing and regeneration in the 21^st century and the implications and complex nuances this may have on some of the poorest in society, reliant upon social housing. In particular the project looks at the demise of social housing, exploring ideas of displacement and a collapse of a sense of community or sense of place.

We have exhibited the work at the Brighton Photo Fringe 2010 and Format International Photography Festival 2011 as part of the Collectives Encounter exhibition, ‘The Flaneur’.

You can view more work by Human Endeavour on their website and blog.

That’s probably the most varied range of speakers we’ve presented so far, so come along and try something new. Drop me an email (jim@clickclickjim.com) if you’d like me to email you updates nearer the time of the talks and I hope to see you for all four of them! If you’d like to do a talk yourself, or know someone who might, please drop me a line as well.

Entrance is free, just turn up on the night at Add The Colour (Add the Colour, 64-65 North Road, Brighton, BN1 1YD). Each talk begins at 7pm but arrive early to get a seat. It’d be great to see as many people as possible down there! Add Colour might even have coffee and cake on the go so bring some change as those cakes are damn good…

Last night it was the last of the MiniClick photography talks for 2010. It was also the last of the first season of talks we’ve put on, featuring some of Brighton’s finest photographers including Alex Bamford, Kris Mitchell, Ruby-May Allcock and Jean-Luc Brouard. The initial plan was to do these four and see if people are interested in them. If they were, then we’d put on four more.

Well, since we had good turnouts for all four, I’m really pleased to announce the next four speakers we’ve got lined up. I’m over the moon with them; all very talented and representing some really varied work which demonstrates what a versatile medium photography is and the depth of the talent pool in Brighton.

So, without further chit-chat, ladies and gentlemen, your next four speakers….

James Withey – 11th January

James is originally from Dorset but has spent the past 15 years living in Glasgow and is a new Brighton resident. His work, predominantly in black and white encourages the viewer to look at everyday objects and corners that are beautiful in unexpected ways. James will be talking about his current project which explores human emotions through light and shadow and will be looking back at his earlier work that informed the project. You can see more of James’ work on his website, or on his flickr page.

Erika Szostak – 1st February

Erika will be presenting her talk “The Symbiosis of Photography & Text: Using Text to Enrich Your Photographic Practice”. Cartier-Bresson called photography the most literary of the visual arts, yet between writing & photography lies a tension. As photographers, it can be tempting to think our job ends with creating an image, with its title & description if not afterthoughts, then of lesser importance. We all know the cliché about the worth of a photograph in words. The flipside to that is Susan Sontag’s assertion that “There can be no evidence… of an event until the event has been named & characterized” & “A photograph… cannot make a dent in public opinion unless there is an appropriate context…” It is through using text to provide name, characterization & context that we make our images accessible & relevant to a greater audience. *Attendees should bring pen, paper & a photograph, (print or digital). You can see more of Erika’s work on her website.

Matt Martin – 1st March

A graduate of Lens Based Media at Exeter College, Matt has since thrown himself into the world of photography with a passion and dedication to producing work that has seen him establish 5 self published zines and his first book “Hello Misfits”. Matt also started the website “Wearelucky” which focuses on spreading the work of young photographers and last year was ranked in the top 10 photography blogs on Dazed Digital. His work has also been published in Journal Magazine, Time Out, HUH magazine, Tiny Vices and many more. Now a fully-fledged inhabitant of Brighton, he works as a photographer for Spindle Magazine, and assists at Garage Studios. His talk will take in some of his early work and how he started “Wearelucky”. He’ll show a collection of photographic ‘zines and talk about the work of young photographers who were making ‘zines that inspired him at the time and the DIY aesthetic to his work. He’ll cover some photographers that have inspired him and discuss his trip across America, showing work from the 3 months he spent there. Finally, he’ll look at his “The Young Ones” project and the direction his work is going since moving to Brighton and having his solo show as part of the recent Photo Fringe in the city. You can see more of his work on his website.

Adam Bronkhorst – 5th April

Adam specialises in taking photographs of people. His photography has been exhibited in solo exhibitions as well as group shows and has been published in magazines, newspapers and books around the world. He has a long and prestigious client list and a love of film cameras (and has far too many in his collection). He never leaves the house with out at least two cameras on him, and his wife wishes that the fridge wasn’t filled up with film. Adam also teaches photography training workshops and specialised 1-2-1 training and he’ll be talking about his range of work, the work that informs it and the context it’s placed in. You can see more of Adam’s work on his website.

That is a pretty varied bunch of very talented folk! Drop me an email (jim@clickclickjim.com) if you’d like me to email you updates nearer the time of the talks and I hope to see you for all four of them! If you’d like to do a talk yourself, or know someone who might, please drop me a line as well. You can see the poster for this series of talks over ‘ere.

Entrance is free, just turn up on the night at Add The Colour (Add the Colour, 64-65 North Road, Brighton, BN1 1YD). Each talk begins at 7pm, and it’d be great to see as many people as possible down there! Add Colour might even have coffee and cake on the go so bring some change as those cakes are damn good…

Brighton is becoming (or has been for a while) a bit of a hotbed for photography talent. You can view this one of two ways if you are a professional photographer, surrounded by a large number extremely talented other photographers – for some, it’s a negative thing, more competition and less work to go round. For other, it’s an unbelievably positive thing, working in a city full of people to bounce  ideas off, collaborate with, work alongside and be inspired by.

I love it. I love seeing local photographers featured in magazines and on the web. The graduate show from Brighton Uni is a highlight of the year. With this in mind clickclickjim have been organising a series of free, monthly photography talks, hosted by Add The Colour coffee shop.

There’s a strong photographic community in Brighton and a number of different groups meet regularly to chat and socialise. What we thought was missing was an evening that was actually focused on images, rather than equipment, technology, business stuff or critiques. The idea is for the nights to be an informal presentation of their work by a local photographer, often one who we may not have had the chance to hear speak about heir work before. Afterward people can hangout in a relaxed atmosphere, and chat about what they’ve just seen, about photography in general, or about whatever they like.

Our first season of talks starts in September and runs through to December. Here’s who we have lined up so far (click their names to head over to their own websites)…

Alex Bamford – Tuesday, 14th September

Working as an art director in some of London’s foremost advertising agencies, Alex (aka the big bambooly) has spent the last 25 years creating images for major brands. More recently he’s been heading into the night to create images for his own amusement. He’s exhibited his excellent moonlighting series in Brighton, one reviewer (from the Argus) saying, “Alex Bamford’s photographs make familiar landscapes alien. Streaks of coloured light balls roll tumbleweed-like across seafronts and “fight” in forgotten corners. Against natural backdrops devoid of human presence, there’s a sense of otherworldliness, that the viewer is privy to something fleeting and magical”. Alex will be chatting about his moonlighting series, with a whole load of beautiful images to accompany it.

Kris Mitchell – Tuesday, 5th October

Coming from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Canada, and now calling Brighton home for the last 5 years, Kris has been fortunate enough to have become entrenched in the vibrant photographic community that thrives here. Fascinated by the stories that all people have to tell, portraiture has become a fast favourite style of photography,  wanting to pay back the people who inspired him to explore photography on a deeper level than simply “pushing the button”, a “52 Week Self Portrait” project  along with a series of “Paying It Forward” Portrait projects were undertaken in 2010. Along with the self portraits, the lighting diagrams and contact sheets were posted to show the effort, thought and consideration that went into each image, often showing the evolution from the initial thought to the final frame all in an effort to “Pay It Forward” and inspire other photographers to think more about what they’re trying to achieve with their pictures. Kris will be presenting some of these portraits, alongside his lighting diagrams and methodology behind the images.

Ruby-May Allcock – Tuesday, 2nd November

Ruby-May has recently concluded her A-level in photography in Brighton and plans to study fashion photography at university. Ruby has shot headline acts at major venues and festivals in the UK, including Glastonbury. She also works as a photographer for a Brighton listings magazine.

Jean-Luc Brouard – Tuesday, 7th December

Originally from the island of Guernsey, Jean-Luc now lives and works in Brighton, where he divides his time between commercial commissions and personal photographic projects. A fascination with the nocturnal world is apparent in the majority of his work; this fascination materialises in both his personal projects & commissioned work. Fiercely independent he enjoys working in a number of different fields & revels in the variety & freedom that ensues from his refusal to be tied down to one particular genre of photography. He has spent a number of years documenting youth cultures and music scenes & producing images for artists, the music industry & press. Although something of a night owl he also produces work for more commercial clients during daylight in the areas of portraiture, product & food photography. In his personal projects his fascination with the nocturnal world is also matched by an interest in landscapes. Previous bodies of work have dealt with subject matter such as; twilight landscapes of northern Finland during midwinter and midsummer, seascapes featuring distant vessels, World War two coastal fortifications in the Channel Islands and open air crime scenes. He has been short listed as one of the final 15 photographers for British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award, The Centre Santa Fe open & also for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009. In 2010 he won 2^nd place in one of the Prix de la Photographie Paris categories. He has previously exhibited in a number of group and solo shows.

Entrance is free, just turn up on the night at Add The Colour (Add the Colour, 64-65 North Road, Brighton, BN1 1YD). They’ll each kick-off at 6:30pm, and it’d be great to see as many people as possible down there! Add Colour might even have coffee and cake on the go so bring some change as those cakes are damn good…