Newcastle

Yesterday, on the back of a nearby PR job, I spent the afternoon in Newcastle and took these on my 5D2 and iPhone/Hipstamatic. I didn't get quite as excited as this chap, however!

Broken Manual (Special Edition)

I received an e-mail this morning about a really interesting new Steidl book with which Alec Soth and the writer Lester B. Morrison have "created an underground instruction manual for those looking to escape their lives".

Each of the the (initial) special edition of 300 are housed - à la Stephen Gill - in the shell of a hollowed-out book and include a "Liberation Billfold Manifest" as well as a signed/numbered print. The whole set will be installed at Minneapolis' Walker Art Center as part of Soth's exhibition there before being shipped to buyers in January 2011. More information here.

More from 'The Devil's Garden'

A few out-takes from the final edit plus some diary camera shots, including the tire with twelve punctures and a North Coast beach, only a few hundred meters from the minefields. See the original post here.

Holga images

After not uploading anything for some time I had planned to post quite a long piece about the current iPhone/Hipstamatic craze, but - despite the fact I'd saved it - Blogger managed to loose the whole thing. Quite apt, really, as the post dealt with notions of 'real' media (i.e. prints/negs) and how images are now usually captured digitally/shared through the web etc. Anyway, I bought a Holga GFN a few weeks ago and these images are from the first film I put through it.