Friday, 19 July 2013
tiNhearT artworK
Here are some covers I did for Brighton-based band tiNhearT. The first was for an EP of Dan Amos covers, thundeRharP, which you can buy here.
Showing posts with label Holga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holga. Show all posts
Thursday, 5 July 2012
Ha Giang Holga
These photos are from a recent motorbike trip I went on with my girlfriend. It was a great trip in one of the greatest places (I think) on Earth - Ha Giang. The shaky-looking photos are either double or multiple exposures, or because my hands were vibrating from hours on the throttle. I can't rightly remember.
It's probably also worth mentioning that we undertook this trip with a 400g lump of Gorgonzola, which doesn't keep well in hot panniers. Despite our bravery, it got the better of us under a tree (4th picture down) and had to be laid to rest in the next town.
It's probably also worth mentioning that we undertook this trip with a 400g lump of Gorgonzola, which doesn't keep well in hot panniers. Despite our bravery, it got the better of us under a tree (4th picture down) and had to be laid to rest in the next town.
Monday, 6 February 2012
Thailand: Koh Samet and Bangkok
These shots are from a trip to Thailand at the end of last year. Alas I didn't have my camera in my hand luggage on the way there so unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the floods from the air though, take my word for it, it was one of the most visually surreal things these eyes have seen. Water stretching to every horizon and not much poking out of it. Coming in to land over the sea and then over the land which was indistinguishable from the sea. Bangkok was dry but sandbagged in anticipation of the water's arrival. Koh Samet was a small, dry, sun-soaked oasis away from the troubled mainland.
Friday, 4 November 2011
Through the Dreamcloth
These shots were taken for my brother's side project tiNhearT. Some of them look as if they were taken through cheesecloth. They weren't. I don't own a cheesecloth, although perhaps I should. Others look as if I took them in my sleep, while dreaming, and I have no way of verifying whether that's true or not. In any case, there are several photographs here I have no memory of taking.
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Fixer of Songs
This is Binh. He repairs old reel-to-reel machines in his workshop/cafe on the shores of West Lake. Go there, sit by the water and let the old music wash over you in the rich tones that can only come from such a machine. Go on. A couple of the photos were taken with my Holga as I wanted to try out matching my material, i.e. film, with his, tape.
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Double Exposure
I've been shooting with my Holga quite a lot recently and experimenting with double exposures. Tricky. Trickier than I expected; for every one I like I get around nine or ten that are a total mess. So here's a shot that I do like - hopefully it'll be joined by others soon.
Sunday, 3 July 2011
A Ghost in the Machine
Consisting of memories and an eerie red and blue-rimmed light which is creeping into some of my shots. Either that or it's the foam inside wiping its fingers over the film again. Actually I don't mind, yet.
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
I took a ton of medium format colour film with me to Japan recently to use with my Holga and returned with almost all of it unused. Each time I put a film into it and take some shots, I'd find the camera later on had shrugged its back casing off, which I assumed would expose the film and destroy the photos. So I punished the machine, stuffed it in the bottom of my bag and took no more pictures with it save for during a night out in Tokyo. Yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to get the first two films back from the shop to find that all of the photos had come out. Due to my Holga's incarceration, most of the pictures are of sakura and from the same place, but that's ok. I've had a nice surprise and have a pile of unused film which I think gives me one more reason amongst plenty of others to go back to Japan.
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Holga Bleak
Trying out double and triple exposures with my Holga - some rather bleak looking pictures coming out.
Friday, 18 February 2011
Holga Foam
My Holga recently decided to part company, bit by bit, with some of its foamy innards, scatter them liberally over my shots and eventually rub out jagged chunks. Thankyou Holga. I love every weird little thing you do.
Monday, 20 December 2010
Latest Holga Shots
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Rotted Shots
I left some film in my Holga for months and months. So in the Hanoi weather that oscillates from hot to cold and wet to dry overnight or overday it went the way of all perishables and rotted. I think. I hope it's not the camera. Anyway, either way, the photos have come out all speckled and you can see the dots on the film backing poking through. Here are three that i like:
Friday, 30 July 2010
Some New Holga shots
Friday, 29 January 2010
Stick In A Holga
Back in England for Yuletide with a new Holga and fisheye in mittened hand on frosted hill I took some portraits for my brother's band Stick In A Pot. Here's one shot and there are a couple more on my website. Through the squinty eye of a mackerel...
Monday, 18 January 2010
Phim Khong?
Towards the end of last year I started to miss film. Really miss - like the way I was missing crumpets and other olde Englishe fare. As much as I appreciate everything digital technology offers, I was always a reluctant convert, and of late the feeling of loading a camera with film, the different level of thinking and concentration required, the clunk of the shutter, manually winding the film on, not knowing if you got the shot or not, the anticipation, the excitement of flicking through the photos once they're developed, the different texture of the image, were all things that I wanted to recapture - using film is a completely different process and I enjoy it far more than digital.
I bought a holga over christmas so I could play around with medium format film and a fisheye lens for relative peanuts, and when I got back to hanoi I started looking for some old 35mm cameras to take out on the streets.
Had a trial run with a Nikon F3 about which I'd read only good things on the net....great camera with a great feel and heft to it. A lot of the prints came out weird what with it being a fully manual machine, me not knowing my way around it and having been spoonfed with the automatic settings available on my digital bodies, but with the amount of fun I had with it I didn't really care. The ones that did come out well I'm pretty happy with, and the ones that didn't? There's still something I like about them.
Unfortunately something inside the Nikon is stained, or rotten, which came out on the prints, so I won't be buying it unless that gets fixed, but as of today I own a Zenit 122
Here are some frames from the Nikon test day:
I bought a holga over christmas so I could play around with medium format film and a fisheye lens for relative peanuts, and when I got back to hanoi I started looking for some old 35mm cameras to take out on the streets.
Had a trial run with a Nikon F3 about which I'd read only good things on the net....great camera with a great feel and heft to it. A lot of the prints came out weird what with it being a fully manual machine, me not knowing my way around it and having been spoonfed with the automatic settings available on my digital bodies, but with the amount of fun I had with it I didn't really care. The ones that did come out well I'm pretty happy with, and the ones that didn't? There's still something I like about them.
Unfortunately something inside the Nikon is stained, or rotten, which came out on the prints, so I won't be buying it unless that gets fixed, but as of today I own a Zenit 122
Here are some frames from the Nikon test day:
