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PhotoCafe Talk - Call Out - Deadline June 5th

May 07, 2017
WORLD WIDE CALL OUT  Orienting ourselves is difficult when the ground shifts beneath our feet. This can be felt in a literal and metaphorical sense. How do our bodies understand place? How might... ›
PhotoCafe Talk - Call Out - Deadline June 5th

PhotoCafe Talk - May 10th

May 01, 2017
PHOTOCAFE TALK - MAY 10TH All are welcome to the next PhotoCafe event on May 10th from 7pm at 1000 Trades, 16 Frederick Street, The Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham B1 3HE We're looking forward to a... ›
PhotoCafe Talk - May 10th

Guilt

March 16, 2017
GUILT A man died last Saturday; a man who I will never know, yet a man, nonetheless, who I have thought about every day this week. He fell into a hole on a construction site and then was crushed... ›
Guilt

Heaven

February 24, 2017
Heaven There’s a black dog laying in the gutter; it looks like a small stool that has fallen over in the wind, as it’s white legs, frozen in time, sticks up skywards to where so many here hope... ›
Heaven

In the ring

February 12, 2017
In the ring I tucked the box of cereal and Almond Milk under my arm and then attempted to grab a jar of coffee off the shelf, all the time with a shop assistant watching this sad excuse for a... ›
In the ring

Rain

February 10, 2017
Rain When it rains all of this will turn green she said. The brown dry hills, up above will be green and lush once more, we all need rain she sighed, as rain is life. But the hills up above,... ›
Rain

Home

January 31, 2017
Home Something happens here after dark, a certain madness that seems to grip the children, who live in this gated community in Acadia; a certain hysteria, if you will, as one by one, they begin to... ›
Home

In Hot Water

January 28, 2017
In Hot Water. Yesterday the power went out and I found myself having to stay in while the landlord sorted a repairman to come over to check it out.  Blog cuts to someone shouting first world... ›
In Hot Water

The fog

December 01, 2016
The Fog I wake up in the darkness and for a few seconds still think that I’m back at home, instead of in Jamaica, until yesterday and last night begin to filter slowly in, to correct my reality. I... ›
The fog

Back in the day

June 10, 2015
I came across this interesting photograph of Barry Jackson Tower taken in 1980 yesterday. It's strange to think that this landmark of 43 long years will soon be gone but it was great to hear all... ›
Back in the day

Monday Music: Flat of the Blade

July 25, 2014
  Flat of the Blade - directed by Ewen Spencer for MASSIVE ATTACK "How does it feel to kneel at the feet of the choices you made" I love this track and the video too.  I'm currently developing... ›
Monday Music: Flat of the Blade

Photographers Talk: Hexagon Theatre, mac,

November 19, 2016
Photographers Talk: Andrew Jackson Hexagon Theatre, mac, Birmingham B12 9QH 23rd November 2016 from 6pm - 7.30pm  Grain Photography Hub Press Release: We are delighted to invite you to a... ›
Photographers Talk: Hexagon Theatre, mac,

Photos on show in Ojodepez-39

December 29, 2014
  “No-one on that ship…thought we’d be leaving home forever, but when my father hugged me on the dockside, for some reason, I knew I’d never see him again…”   Amy Jackson My feature in OjodePez... ›
Photos on show in Ojodepez-39

A short story about time #1

July 27, 2015
The past is a small island which we sail slowly away from.  At first we’re excited by this uncharted journey and care not about the growing distance between ourselves and it, this strange land, as... ›
A short story about time #1

Guardian Weekender

March 28, 2015
My work is featured in today's Guardian Weekender Magzine - and online  - check it out:   ›
Guardian Weekender

Back to Front: 40 Permanent Collection Gems

November 14, 2013
I'm really pleased to have two works selected for the 40th anniversary of the Garman Ryan Collection.  Members of the front of house staff at New Walsall Art Gallery were asked to select their... ›
Back to Front: 40 Permanent Collection Gems

Representation Matters

February 12, 2015
Representation Matters   Photography is never objective; anyone who has dozed through the first year of an undergraduate photography course will have had that beaten into them.  The photograph... ›
Representation Matters

Malick Sidibé : RIP

April 16, 2016
Malick Sidibé, the Malian photographer who chronicled his country’s burgeoning pop culture in the years after independence, has died at the age of 80. Article continues here  (Previous text (c) The... ›
Malick Sidibé : RIP

The photographer...

April 26, 2016
I'm really looking forward to being involved in this tomorrow. ›
The photographer...