Last Saturday I was lucky enough to photograph Musituality at St Phillips Cathedral in Birmingham, a celebration of Brum’s multicultural heritage organised by Rich Batsford. It was a deeply moving spiritual event and was set in gorgeous surroundings.
Moseley : A Portrait
Last weekend was Project X Presents… Xhibition in which everyones favourite multidisciplinary Birmingham arts collective took over Moseley Village for a day. I’ve been involved with PXP for a couple of years now documenting their weird and wonderful events but this is the first time I had been asked to contribute a piece of art.
I attempted to capture a portrait of Moseley through compositing over 300 different images in a Hockneyesque style. The collage method injects an element of time into the photograph, creating a truer portrait of the area than simply a static image.
In the end, due to circumstances beyond the control of the Project X organisers, the final print did not make it to the exhibition. It will be exhibited somewhere soon!
Click on the image above to see a large scale version integrated with Google Maps, it loops and you can zoom in to appreciate the level of detail in the final print. There’s also a gallery of pictures taken on the night itself here.
Have been neglecting blogging here because I’m now blogging regularly over here, the new website for the Birmingham Photospace Group of which I’m a committee member.
It’s a really exciting project aiming to create a dedicated photography gallery in Birmingham and I’ll be writing posts about photography in general, from practitioners who I admire to techniques that I’m particularly fond of.
My own personal projects I’ll, of course, continue to document here!
Had a fun night participating in the 4AM Project last night, an attempt to document an hour when the world sleeps. The project has been organised by the very talented Karen Strunks
I was lucky enough to get the chance to document New Street Station and the Wholesale Markets, two Birmingham locations I’ve never had the chance to take pictures of before.
Karen has created a list of all the bloggers who documented the big night, it’s up here.
Firstly from a shoot to celebrate my mother-in-law, the wonderful Pat Flynn, receiving her MBE for services to libraries in Leicester. She’s an amazing lady.
And in complete contrast a street portrait from the photographer’s mecca that is the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Digbeth Birmingham.
One of my resolutions this year is to shoot more people, portraiture’s one of the photographic genres that it’s completely impossible to get bored by.