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A brief look out from The Quay in Westport, on a work trip at the end of March.
Westport Bay, Co. Mayo, Ireland – March 2018
30 Friday Mar 2018
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Saturday diversions; October 21st 2017
22 Sunday Oct 2017
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Blackheath, Charlton Champion, flowers, fuji, Fuji XT10, Fujifilm, photography, Ronnie RIpple and the Ripchords, skatepark
Flowers outside the florists in Blackheath village, autumn 2017
Across to Blackheath Village first thing Saturday for a haircut. Nice autumn light shining on the display outside the florists by the station.
Over to Charlton Park next on Charlton Champion duties to photograph the official opening of the new skatepark, built by Greenwich Council and funded by developers taking over the old skatepark site in Woolwich (amid much inevitable controversy).
Full set of skatepark pics at The Charlton Champion.
I’ll definitely be back there soon to take more photos; the light wasn’t ideal (sudden brightness between downpours as Storm Brian passed over), and a longer lens would be better – I had assumed that my 14mm would be ideal for capturing the whole skate bowl scene but, as always seems to happen when I use a wide angle lens, it was quickly abandoned for the 35mm. Next time I’ll take the 60mm for more portraits.
The evening was spent playing guitar with Ronnie Ripple & The RipChords at Genesis cinema in Mile End; a fun gig performing after a screening of Back to the Future. I really should have used it as an excuse to face down my 30 year fear of playing the intro and solo for Johnny B Goode, though. Hopefully there’ll be another chance there soon.
The Seven Sisters, from Cuckmere Haven
03 Thursday Aug 2017
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A sunny, blustery Sunday on the Sussex coast at Cuckmere Haven. See a couple more shots of the same place here.
Photos from inside Charlton’s closed-to-the-public Summer House
20 Thursday Jul 2017
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Not exactly proper urbex (the Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust kindly let me in to have a look), but here are some pics taken yesterday inside Charlton’s (probably) Inigo Jones-design Summer House. Converted to public toilets and unused since the early 1990’s, the Summer House is now under restoration; full story on the Charlton Champion.
Greenwich & Docklands International Festival in Woolwich; July 2017
10 Monday Jul 2017
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dance, festival, GDIF, GDIF2017, Greenwich Docklands International Festival, hats, photography, Woolwich
The finale of 2017’s Greenwich & Woolwich Docklands International Festival came to Woolwich on Saturday, processing from Peter Burke’s Assembly sculptures in the Royal Arsenal, across the road and into General Gordon Square, via a loop around Powis St. I can’t pretend to have understood exactly who or what the loin-clothed dancers represented, but I enjoyed it; particularly the raving-in-Powis-Street section.
See a short edit of pics from the event here.
Plus a bonus shot of a swarm of hats in Poundland on Powis Street here:
Down by the river: semi-submerged shopping trolleys of the Thames foreshore near Charlton, south-east London; February 2017
06 Monday Feb 2017
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Charlton, Down by the river, Fuji XT10, iphone video, london, photography, Semi-submerged shopping trolleys, Thames Path
A Saturday afternoon interlude spent peering over the edge of the Thames path near Charlton.
See the full set of ‘Semi-submerged shopping trolleys of the Thames foreshore near Charlton, south-east London: a study’ on my portfolio website.
PS. I’m working towards making a much wider range of my pictures available to purchase as prints (all on high-quality, archival paper). If there are any photos on this site that you’d like to own as a print (prices start at £40), please get in touch.
(I’m also always interested in print swaps, if you make paintings/photos/linocuts/woodcuts/screenprints/similar – just get in touch!)
Down by the river: Anchor & Hope, Charlton; December 2016
04 Sunday Dec 2016
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Charlton, Down by the river, Fuji XT10, Greenwich Peninsula, london, photography, Thames, Thames Path
Down to the Thames by the Anchor & Hope in Charlton on a crisp, cold early December day; the pollution layer that’s been hanging over London for the last few days very evident in the clear skies. Views north across the river to Silvertown give a clue as to how the south side of the river could look when the planned Charlton riverside development has replaced the remnants of industry in a few years time. Looking west, it’s suddenly noticeable that views of Canary Wharf and the O2 Arena are starting to disappear, obscured by new developments on Greenwich Peninsula. London needs more housing, but it’ll be worse for the loss of links with its industrial past.
‘Childhoods’ at the Side Gallery, Newcastle – plus a short walk along the Quayside; October 2016
29 Saturday Oct 2016
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childhoods, documentary photography, exhibitions, Fuji XT10, Newcastle, north-east, October, photography, quayside, Side Gallery, Tyneside
A half-term trip to the North-East, and a chance for a quick visit to the newly re-opened Side Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Their ‘Childhoods’ exhibition mixes work from the Amber archives (including Liisa-Sirkka Kontinnen and Chris Killip), newer projects from the North-East, plus contemporary work around the world, such as Kai Wiedenhöfer’s Syrian Collateral, to explore the experiences and lives of children in difficult circumstances. I found the whole show engrossing and, ultimately, quite heartbreaking.
It’s great to see the Side Gallery back, and in premises that their work deserves. Every town should have a Side Gallery-equivalent; we might understand this country a little better if they did.
‘Malick Sidibé: the modern eye of Mali’, Somerset House, London
22 Saturday Oct 2016
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To Somerset House for the excellent (and free) Malick Sidibé show: “The modern eye of Mali”.
Highly recommended: great to see some really big prints of work that I’ve mostly seen online and in small-ish books. Nice soundtrack, too.
Down by the river: East of Greenwich Peninsula; August 2016
28 Sunday Aug 2016
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cable car, Emirates Air Line, Fuji XT10, Jetty, london, monochrome, photography, River, Silvertown, Thames
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A breezy and occasionally damp walk along the Thames path, past the Emirates Airline cable car and the old jetty (currently Farmopolis), looking over the river to Silvertown.
