Burlesque on the Guardian online!

I have a few images on the Guardian online from the Burlesque Festival. Take a look:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2010/apr/29/london-burlesque-week

Six nights of burlesque and several early mornings later......

It's my third year documenting the London Burlesque Week which is held in various venues throughout London. It's been a crazy week of dashing around, huge amounts of glitter, tired eyes and lots of fun.

There were some amazing performances and last night I met the famous Catherine D'Lish - I feel slightly star struck. Here are few images from a very speedy edit. More to follow when I've had some sleep.

life.still exhibition and slideshow night

The exhibition I am helping to organise are calling for photographers to enter slideshows for the opening night. Check out life.still website for submission guidelines and inspiration.

All the photographers who are exhibiting will be introduced on the site, starting with John Angerson. I first saw John's work 'English Journey' at Photo Forum in London.

If you've never been to Photo Forum it's well worth going. Each month there is a presentation by several photographers, often showing unseen work. It's a great place to meet some of London's finest photographers and to have a pint afterwards.

In the meantime I've been covering London Burlesque Week. I've been documenting the festival for the last three years so it's really nice to see lots of old faces and shoot some new images. I'll be posting some images here soon.

life.still

Last summer I did a small project in Bristol which I will be exhibiting as part of Bristol Festival of Photography running from 21st May – 30th May 2010. Here are a couple of the images I will be showing from the series When I close my eyes. It is a group show including Tamany Baker, John Angerson, Michael Lusmore and Gina Lundy. There will also be an open slideshow event at the private view and it’s going to be a fantastic opportunity to meet some documentary photographers outside of London. I will post more details soon.

For Julianna

Yesterday my friend Julianna left for New York, off to happier times and places I hope. When we were all feeling a little sad and trying to move on from last year I started to redecorate my house. The walls were covered with chip board and it gave us a sense of purpose to rip it all off to see what was behind. Julianna stripped all the walls in my front room and slowly discovered this writing beneath it. Each person who had lived in this house and taken the wallpaper off had written the date and a note, sometimes including a football score from an important match. Julianna had ununcovered little traces of history.