Lumiquest Softbox III + Gary Fong Lightsphere

I've recently been testing various lightweight lighting solutions. This was predominantly a reportage shoot that required a few formal headshots so I just used my Canon 580EX II flashes triggered by a Canon ST-E2. The pull down projection screen was a handy bonus.

College Green and the Palace of Westminster, 12 May 2010

. . . and yes, that is a pig on a lead.

Whitehall, 11 May 2010

Outside the Cabinet Office, Whitehall, on the day that Gordon Brown resigns and the coalition government is announced.

Recent, random

Will post some more coherent work soon, but in the meantime . . .

Found . . .

. . . at the King's Head in Waterloo last night.

Recent portraits

Two portraits from a series I recently shot for a company called Vale Retail.

Easter Monday, Carshalton

Carshalton is a small town close to where I grew up, the old part of which retains a Victorian/Edwardian character.

The woman I photographed in the first image was telling me a story about a man she found lying unconscious on the path. The Plane Tree to her left is over 200 years old and is one of the tallest in London.

Four days in Ireland

I dusted off my Mamiya 7 II for this trip but it rarely came out of the bag. These were taken on my G9 in Dublin and Kilkenny.

While in Dublin I visited an exhibition at the IMMA of Francis Alÿs' Le temps du sommeil, a series of 111 small-scale paintings documenting the artist's 'recorded actions'. These include: carrying a leaking can of paint around Ghent; pushing a block of ice through Mexico City until it melts; wandering the streets with a gun in his hand until he is arrested and using 500 volunteers to move a 1,600-foot sand dune just four inches from its original position.

Waves

I was over on the Kent coast yesterday to photograph representatives from the NHS and a pharmaceutical company. With time to kill before catching my train back to London I walked down to the beach and took these. They're pretty derivative of Syoin Kajii's Nami series but I had fun taking them.

The United Kingdom

I went to see The United Kingdom play the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town last week. My friend Dan - who runs the Actual Size record label - plays drums and guitar for them so I took a few snaps.