Mexico

Here's a selection of pictures from my recent travels in Mexico. Most relate to either the Day of Saint Jude or the Day of the Dead. All taken on a 5D Mark II and a 40mm.

間 Aida review

Larissa Leclair of the Indie Photobook Library included my new book 間 AIDA in Photo District News' “Notable Photo Books of 2012”. The complete list can be seen here

Coming soon: Mexico, USA & Canada

As soon as I get a moment I'll post some images from my recent trip to Central and North America. Until then, here's one of the first pictures I took in Mexico City...

Portrait: Mark Makela

An image I took of photojournalist Mark Makela in Hampstead earlier today with Canon's new 40mm 'pancake' lens. Mark's been over from the U.S. covering the Olympics and his photostory, The Unseen Olympics, can be seen at www.markmakela.com

Apologies for not having updating my blog much recently. Follow me - ayoungson - on Instagram for more frequent image posts.

Photobook Show

My forthcoming photobook, 間 Aida, will be exhibited at Photobookshow's C & D shows in Brighton and Helsinki this August/September. The opening for C Book Show in Brighton will take place on Friday, 17 August at Create Studios from 18:00. Full details can be found on the Photobook Show website.

Esquire Russia: The Devil's Garden

I'm thrilled to see my Devil's Garden photostory featured by Esquire Russia!

Feature Shoot: The Devil's Garden

I'm very pleased to announce that Feature Shoot has just published a piece on my Devil's Garden story. The whole article plus a short Q&A about this and my new work can be seen here.

Portrait, Chile

Taken in Punta Arenas earlier this year.

Hard Drive find: Malaysia

Taken in Penang, March 2001.

Still life

Noticed this in the kitchen yesterday.

Corporate headshots

One of the 40 headshots I took yesterday plus the set up: 2x Canon 580EX IIs and 2x medium Lastolite EzyBox softboxes. Shot on the 5D Mark II and 85mm f/1.2 L II.

Portrait: Adrian

A portrait I made last week in relation to my Falkland-Malvinas work of photographer and former Royal Marine, Adrian Brown.

Found photographs

A couple of portrait photographs that I bought in Motevideo's Tristán Narvaja Street market.

'The Devil's Garden' at the PPAC

I'm very pleased to see that 'The Devil's Garden' will be part of the Indie Photobook Library's first crowd-sourced exhibition at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Annual Book Fair this Saturday.

Portrait: Martín, Buenos Aires

Sunset, Brixton

My new 5x4 pinhole camera (almost)

Just received this from http://www.pinholesolutions.co.uk with which I plan to shoot the final phase of my 'Soldbuch' project.

OU ØPOVTIS

A few days ago I visited Clouds Hill, T. E. Lawrence's cottage near Wareham in Dorset. Above the front door - carved by Lawrence himself - is a quotation from an ancient Greek tale by Herodotus. It translates roughly as ‘why worry’.

Portrait: Adam

Taken on my iPhone outside Look Mum No Hands earlier today.

Fishermen, Uruguay

'Fin del Mundo'

A couplet from new work I've just started editing.

Portraits - Punta Arenas, Chile

Contact sheet

Shot in Punta Arenas, Chile, earlier this month.

Contact Editions

Just got back from South America - images coming soon - and am very excited to see my 'Devil's Garden' project featured by Contact Editions: http://www.contacteditions.co.uk/andrew-youngson

Out of the Office

I'll be traveling in South America for the next few weeks and won't be updating my blog until I'm back in the UK. Until then here's a picture from Tierra del Fuego.

Portrait: Eben Upton

Founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi foundation, Eben Upton, from a shoot in Cambridge last week.

Landscape (with aeroplane): Tangstedt, Germany

From a test shoot back in December.

Seba Kurtis, Matt Austin and André Penteado

Above are three great publications that I've been meaning to mention for a while:

'Drowned' by Seba Kurtis 
'Talking with Fear about Dying Tomorrow' by Matt Austin 
'Dad's Suicide' by André Penteado

hereontheweb.co.uk has more information on both Drowned and Talking with Fear about Dying Tomorrow.

Hard Drive find: Macau

Taken in 2007 near the ruins of St. Paul's.

Explosions in the Sky

Brixton Academy, 27th January 2012. www.explosionsinthesky.com

Robert Lawrence MC

This portrait of Robert Lawrence is the first image I've made towards a body of work that will focus on British and Argentinian veterans of the Falkland-Malvinas conflict.

For an action fought on Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence - then a Lieutenant in the Scots Guards - was awarded the Military Cross. He was seriously wounded in the final hours of the conflict and his story dramatised in the 1988 film Tumbledown.

Lawrence is now the manager and co-founder of Global Adventure Plus, an organisation that aims to help physically and mentally injured ex-service personnel.

Portrait: Iain MacDonald

A portrait of film and television director Iain MacDonald from a shoot earlier today.

Contact sheet, November 2011

Mostly long-exposure and DOF tests as well as a random image taken from Berry Head, Brixham. I miss contact sheets!

Old negs: drought in Ethiopia

These are from 2006 when I traveled to the Oromia Region of Southern Ethiopia with UNICEF. The complete photostory is on my website and there are some more images from the trip here. Click on the film strip to enlarge.