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  • Lindka Cierach Spring Summer 2008
    Lindka Cierach’s Spring Summer 2008 collection, photographed in London, April 2008.
  • Disestablishmentarianism
    In a crazed attempt to separate Church And State, I’ve created a separate weblog here for the more usual outboard-brain type activities. It’s good Google Hygiene, after all.
  • What I did on my birthday
    An out-take from last week’s big shoot - currently in post-production - as I slowly admit defeat to the bug that’s going around. Blergh.
  • Le Cool Will Change Your Life
    It’s my birthday today, so I’m allowed a plug. As The Man Losowsky announced yesterday, the five new Le Cool guidebooks are now available for pre-order. Here’s the blurb for the London edition: Designed by Jeremy Leslie at John Brown, A Weird and Wonderful Guide to London is the gateway to a city of freaks and [...]
  • Casting for couture
    Snapshots from the casting I’ve been commissioned to shoot Lindka Cierach’s Spring/Summer 2008 collection next Thursday. There are 16 pieces to do, from daywear to evening gowns, and it’s going to be something of a day. My team and I need to have just the right model. Today was the casting, which meant seeing the twenty [...]
  • Sabrina from Brasil

  • geeKyoto 2008
    Announcing…geeKyoto 2008 - Living In The Changed World 10:00 - 16:30 - Saturday 17th May 2008. Conway Hall, London. £20. We broke the world. Now what? Mark Simpkins and Ben Hammersley announce a one day conference in central London, with designers, technologists, artists, architects, policy-makers, explorers, economists and scientists, and clever people like you, to discuss the future [...]
  • …and his brother, Ugo
    Ugo @ Oxygen Models
  • Jean, from Paris, revisited
    Jean, from Paris, in his first London sitting, this afternoon in my studio. Mais oui.
  • Stasia
    Stasia @ Oxygen, clothes model’s own.
  • To paradise by way of Kensal Green.
    The Parkour training school in Kensal Green
  • geeKyoto2008 - a conference you’ll want to go to
    Announcing geeKyoto2008. Mark Simpkins and I are putting on a one day conference in London, on the 17th May, to discuss how we’ll all live, given that we’ve broken the planet. While everyone else argues over whose fault it is, let’s get on and make the cool stuff we need. Top speakers! Great topics! More [...]
  • Inside a humvee, North East Afghanistan, 2006
    Ijust upgraded to Aperture 2, and am in the middle of moving all my old pictures onto new storage. I keep finding old pictures that I now know what to do with where I didn’t before.
  • You should have seen Economy
    Kabul airport, 2006
  • All I need now is a cigarette factory
    As I prepare to leave Pakistan, and as per my little advert in the top-right of this site at the moment, here’s the first image from a shoot I did last week for Oxygen Models. Oscar is to come, but here’s Carmen: