Photography

Lindka Cierach Spring Summer 2008

Lindka Cierach’s Spring Summer 2008 collection, photographed in London, April 2008.

What I did on my birthday

Dancing model, by Ben Hammersley

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 wonders, of the kind you hear whispered about in dark corners, but were never quite sure existed. Edited by Mat Osman, it takes you by the hand and leads you throughout the city, from New Cross to Mayfair, opening closed doors and revealing secrets that might just change your life.

I worked on that London edition, and one slightly sticky spread for the Amsterdam book. There’s also Lisbon, Madrid, and Barcelona, and my lord are they beautiful. They’re out in May, so pre-order here!

Sabrina from Brasil

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…and his brother, Ugo

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Jean, from Paris, revisited

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Jean, from Paris, in his first London sitting, this afternoon in my studio. Mais oui.

Stasia

Stasia at Oxygen Models
Stasia @ Oxygen, clothes model’s own.

To paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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The Parkour training school in Kensal Green

Inside a humvee, North East Afghanistan, 2006

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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

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