billboard ape

I got my mate to take some images of me in the monkey mask. I spotted an empty billboard on Herne Hill Road and had already taken some shots. I put the image of me in the mask on the billboard in photoshop using layer, free transform, skew and distort.


I like the idea but I'm not sure it's the best location for the mask. I've found a good space with some old scaffolding supporting a building. It looks like a jungle gym, I'm going to try hanging up side down from the scaffolding.

Godzilla Haiku

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enough said

Obama looking at awsome things

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dryponder/sets/72157623726710218/

Check these out.

Bert Hardy's dark room

At the Back of Southwark College in a side street is a sign for the Bert Hardy Darkroom. Bert Hardy was famous in the 1940's and early 50's for documentary and press photography, mostly for the Picture Post magazine. He was born in Blackfriars, and some of his most famous shots were taken in Elephant and Castle.




Most of his famous photographs are of working class conditions, especially from the Gorbals estate in Glasgow.



I think now they look like strange photographs. The ones of street children are comic and kind of sentimental, but they show terrible conditions and poverty.


I've heard that his printer still works there and that he is still printing the images there for exhibitions. Over the summer I'm going to find out when he's there and see if I can get some images inside.

Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter is another street photographer that I realy like. He was working in New York in the 1950's. He earned his money as a fashion photographer, but was never realy famous. A lot of his street photography went undeveloped for years because he didnt think much of it. He was intrested in a lot of New York painters at the time like Mark Rothko.


What is good about his work is the compsition, the use of focus, the use of texture and reflection, signs and the weather, like rain and condensation. The images are never as abstract as the painters he admired.

disaster photographs

Enrique Metinides is a press photographer from Mexico city. He mostly worked for the newspaper La Prensa. His images are nearly all of disasters, murders, accidents, crime or suicides, the sort of thing that attracts alot of attention on the street or on the front of a news paper.



His photos nearly always have a low point of view, like the point of view of the victim, and they look like film stills rather than documentary. More about him in a later post.

street photography

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I've been taking photos on the streets in Waterloo and Blackfriars since about 2006. Its good looking at the same area, it's surprising how quickly things change, the buildings, the signs and graffitti. I'll be posting a few images from each trip.



There are always building sites, Saturday and Sunday they're mostly deserted, this one was so clean it looked more like a stage set.







The caravan is in an empty lot waiting to be built on. Its at the back of a big office block, behind a fence you have to know its there to find it. Theres someone living there, he wasn't around this weekend.





The sign is on a disused building on Blackfriars Road, these old plastic signs look good when they disintegrate and you can see the layers underneath.