Alan Turing…
A brief post to share a recent image use – on the front cover of a book about the life and work of Alan Turing that will be released by Elsevier shortly. I love the design of the jacket and the sculpture itself – by Stephen Kettle – is quite beautiful. The image was taken [...]
Makassar’s ‘Trash mountain’…
On the outskirts of Makassar in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, is the 'TPA', or municipal waste site, where the majority of the city's rubbish is dumped. The site is huge – covering over 14 hectares and receiving over 7000 tonnes of waste every day – and reasonably well managed, with a fleet of bulldozers and excavators [...]
Bali Spirit Festival Preview…
Something a little different today. On Saturday I was shooting at the Bali Spirit Festival Preview, at Antida Arts in Denpasar – a great venue and a fantastic evening. I am steadily broadening the range of subjects and events that I cover here in Bali and will be shooting a lot more live music in [...]
Human trafficking in Indonesia…
I have been working on a completely different project over the weekend, producing some campaign images for the Sacred Childhoods Foundation. As well as working at the 'Trash Mountain' in Makassar, Sacred Childhoods Foundation also works on a number of other projects, including one concerning the issues of human trafficking and the exploitation of children. [...]
Jongaya leprosy settlement, Makassar, Sulawesi
I am now back in Bali, catching up with life and emails, editing images from the trip to Makassar and filming some interviews for another project – life is always varied here! The trip to Makassar was fantastic and whilst I didn't quite achieve all that I hoped, I still consider it a success. And [...]
Help me to help others…
At the start of February, I will be embarking on a journey to shoot three different personal projects in Sulawesi and Sumatra, all of which will support development and conservation efforts in these locations. Why do I call them personal projects? Because I have not commissioned to shoot these stories - they are of great [...]
Burma – Revisited (and reprocessed)…
With the recent developments coming out of Burma, I decided to post a link on my Facebook page to an old gallery of images that I shot in 2008 during a month long trip around the country. At the time I processed the vast majority of images as B&Ws, mainly because I felt that the [...]
2011 in Black & White…
Over the last few days I have been thinking about how to do an end-of-year post and found myself browsing through catalogues from different shoots, pulling out images that I thought would sum up the year in a suitable way. Oddly enough the vast majority where black and white conversions and so I've decided to [...]
