Ghost village

Two images taken several months back during a visit to the Dorset village of Tyneham, deserted since the MOD requisitioned it during World War Two. The black and white image was shot on a Holga GFN whereas the colour was taken with Hipstamatic's Float 'film'.

Recent portrait

Dan Knowler, musician and founder of Actual Size, December 2010.

Randoms from last week

Robert Graves

Robert Graves was one of the first poets that I ever studied and I'm just about to start rereading 'Goodbye to All That' as part of the research for my current work in progress: Soldbuch.

I recently found this random little Q&A - reprinted from a May 1970 edition The Listener - and especially liked the part about "writing a poem [being] rather like finding the top of a statue buried in sand..."

Leaves

Rihanna and Richard Mosse

I couldn't help noticing more than a passing resemblance between Rihanna's 'Only Girl (In The World)' video and Richard Mosse's 'Infra'. The latter was shot in Eastern Congo on Kodak Aerochrome infrared film.

November

Two images taken through windows in London this morning and one from the park yesterday afternoon.

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.