Enjin Magazine.

Thank you Enjin Magazine.

http://www.reportageatrifestival.it/it/

Federica Angelucci of the Michael Stevenson Gallery has invited me to be a part of the show mentioned at the URL above.

It opens in mid-June, runs for 2 months and is held in Abruzzo, Italy.

The 'Handbags' have been included. Seven works, each at 70 cm in diameter, printed on uncoated paper and mounted on circular aluminum discs.

It's an interesting inclusion under the problematic banner of 'documentary', but I guess it will stand out amongst straighter forms of documentary photography.

The titles specify the name of the bag owner, the colour(from a pack of paint swatches) which the owner chose as the background and the date on which the photograph was made.

eg. Simone, Lush Bog, 5.12.2009

The Big Banana Bet

I was recently privy to a wager($25 000). The question on which the bet was founded was... it possible to reconstitute a peeled banana in less than 10 seconds?

In order to prove that this is possible I devised a mechanism to capture very fast motion.

Here are the results.

I am not the first person to use fancy photography to get rich. The first photographer to do it was Eadweard Muybridge.

His work was about small parts of hard-to-see actions. The narrative structure of his work was dissimilar(and strangely post-modern) to the banana series. The relationship between scenes in Muybridge's work is dissolved and each frame has its own distinct dramaturgy. In the BBB there is a distinct succession of productive actions leading to a happy finale which is justified by my friend Kilian's expressive succession.

ICON MAGAZINE spreads

Wicked. Here are the spreads.

Ponte, and Cape Town.

ICON MAGAZINE

The famous design rag from London asked me to photograph the city and include the controversial stadium. There they are, arranged neatly for das Camera.

I needed some sense of scale in the middle ground, so when an unsuspecting dog walker cruised past I gave her the large-format crash course.

'When I whistle depress this stalk, ok?'
'Ok'

Don't believe the hype. Large format is a piece of piss.

My dog is there as well. Looking back at the camera, returning the 'mechanised gaze' of the big boner camera which is shafting the entire city bowl.

Cressida is a woman dog so everything will be fine.