This blog has been a bit quiet lately, mainly due to my bloggging a series of portraits that I (and the very talented Jennifer Peel) took over  the Artsfest weekend in September over on Birmingham Photospace. The images are being gradually revealed until the day the exhibition opens

Birmingham’s People is a project influenced heavily by Richard Avedon’s work and is an attempt to capture a snapshot of the people of the second city

I’d like to invite you to see the series in the flesh in an exhibition lasting from the 7th December until the 29th January at the The Drum Arts Centre in Aston.

We’ll have all 170 images on display plus 15 ’spotlight’ images on display as large high quality prints.

I’ll be giving an artists talk on Wednesday 9th December 7PM open to all readers of this blog, for further details and to reserve a free ticket please go to our eventbrite site.

If you require any further information or would like to receive our press release please email hello@birminghamphotospace.co.uk

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.

Click here for the gallery

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.