Posts Tagged ‘Artist’

London – Mandeep

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Cultural artist Mandeep Chohan.

London – Walter Hugo – Soul Searching

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

I spotted Photo-artist Walter Hugo on Berwick street market and was totally fascinated by Walters jacket. Walter tells me that he was wearing a collaboration limited edition jacket, by the cycling gear brand Rapha and a Saville Row tailor. The jacket is 100 % waterproof and combines technical fabrics, the lining is made for wetsuit material, utilizing an innovative design, while remaining stylish. I particularly liked the back pocket detail of the jacket.

Walters current project utilizes a room sized camera, which he built himself using an 18th century lens. Walter then exposes on to an over-sized  piece of glass, developing a silver nitrate coated one-off ambrotype positive. Walters sitters range from fashion designers, actors, singers, politicians to astronauts. The various luminaries have to sit without blinking for up to 10 seconds, while Walter makes the exposure. The series of images is soon to be concluded and will consist of 50 soul-searching portraits, reminiscent of the work by Victorian photographer Julia Margret  Cameron. Overall the effect is somewhat eerie, while Hugo attempts to go beyond mere facsimile, to reveal every detail of his sitter, perhaps even giving us a glimpse into the human soul…

Paris – Rue de Rivoli

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Lost And Found

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

All of Alexandra’s clothes were either lost or found, except for the hat which her boyfriend bought for her on a trip to Brighton. Alexandra is an artist and has a show of her paintings at the Red gallery in Shoreditch, in a couple of weeks. The shorts with straps were originally a found pair of trousers which Alex then attacked with a big pair of scissors, transforming them into this cool look, with the aid a glitzy gold belt.

The Passion Of Graham

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Graham is a painter from California. He is wearing a tailor-made mustard duffle coat which he recently bought in Devon, South West England and a navy-blue knitted hat. I met him in Shoreditch, London; he was on a pilgrimage to meet friends to witness the inauguration of President Obama.