strawbleu

Ice Shapes

strawbleu — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:33:29 +0000

A frozen canal. Ice ruptured and smashed – then healed.

This collection of 16 photographs examines the surface of a frozen canal which has been violently broken and has since re-frozen. Like scars on a wound these blemishes demonstrate nature in action and reflect on the frailties of humanity.

Pages: 16 | Size: A5 (landscape) | B&W | View a digital preview | £3.50(+P&P) - numbered edition of 25.

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Feedback…

strawbleu — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:30:42 +0000

Is lovely – so long as it’s constructive; but it’s even more lovely when someone really gets your work.

I recently sent a copy of Crossing Poland to Christophe in France and I was overjoyed when he took time to write back to me…

I received your book two days ago, thank you very much.
I have looked at it from time to time, to enter slowly in the pictures, starting to think and express what I feel.
I never read the text before the picture (same with all books, I read forewords after the books!) and what is great with your work is that I really feel what you expected – sharing the journey! From my point of view, it works because these are casual photos. Nothing remarkable, just a few views that appear when we sit, bored, in a train, looking through the window from time to time. Some pictures are out of focus, like a memory which is not sure that what we saw was real. As you can understand I really like your work, maybe also because I love travelling, as when I was young that was my only escape from a not so exciting countryside.
I wish you all the best for your photos and you can keep me posted with your future project!
Christophe

If my work excites, intrigues or otherwise draws out an emotion in you – drop me a line; I’d love to hear what you think!

Lublin, Poland

strawbleu — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:19:26 +0000

Just to let you all know that a gallery of my images, shot in the city of Lublin are now posted on the Exposure Leeds website; please don’t hesitate to pop over there; have a good look, and leave a comment!

View gallery.

Bettakultcha at the Corn Exchange

strawbleu — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:48:12 +0000

BettaKultcha is a bit of a Leeds phenomenon – from the imagination and drive of Ivor Tymchak and Richard Michie, the event doesn’t at first sounds quite so exciting. An evening of slide-show presentations? However with interesting subjects, personal passions, a limit of 20 slides and each slide automatically progressing every few seconds – it certainly keeps the speakers on their toes.

I was coerced or convinced into presenting at the first event and then invited back to record BettaKultcha when it was held at Leeds’ Corn Exchange in March and April of 2011. This small photographic ‘zine captures these two evenings, including an introduction from BettaKultcha regular presenter, Matt Edgar, insights from the presenters and an interview with Ivor and Richard.

Pages: 36 | Size: A5 | Full colour | View a digital preview | £4.50 (+P&P)

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Crossing Poland | July 2011

strawbleu — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:09:43 +0000

This publication takes you on a journey – in a carriage, on a train – similar to journeys people take every day all over the world. But this particular journey is taken as an alien in a foreign land. Viewing how the landscape differs, how their transport system varies, how traveling without understanding the language and where everyone seems to know you’re a little different.

Join me on this journey from Krakow to Warsaw on a July day.

This zine was announced as the favorite publication of the day by online publishing site, Issuu.

Pages: 24 | Size: A5 | B&W | View a digital preview | £3.75 + P&P – numbered edition of 25.

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The tent that Jon made

strawbleu — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:21:44 +0000

This storybook dares you into a world far from nice,
a place where creatures are unfriendly, unhelpful, unkind.
What you will see is not easy on the soul
it’ll pray on your mind and take a heavy toll.
And, as reward, the garish and the vile is all you’ll have found
But these are the things you’re sure to observe
in the land inside the tent that Jon made.

Bringing together for the first time the writing talents of Phil Kirby and the photography of Jon Eland this book explores a very dark place. Seemingly everyday toys and other objects of play are shown for the sinister and malevolent creatures they really are. The frog, the owl, the fox, the tiger and many more are exposed – if you dare peak into the tent that Jon made

Published 2011 | 52 pages | £29.95

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one per cent of one year

strawbleu — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:22:01 +0000

In the first year on Flickr I accrued a little over 15,000 views. To celebrate this and to retain a record of the growth of my work (it was the first time I’d taken photography seriously since art college) I gathered images to represent 1% of those views and presented them in this book.

Printed to order | Prices from £26.95 | Published: 2007

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A year of zines

strawbleu — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:23:01 +0000

Throughout 2011 I’ve been creating a series of small catalogues or zines relating to visits to specific places – these places have been both close and distant from my home location but one intent has remained throughout – to create a sense of that place as I saw it and to share a series of images that worked together.

Once the zines of 2011 are complete they’ll be collated into a single volume for sale.

For now you can preview these on my virtual shelf on Issuu.com

Kirkstall Festival

strawbleu — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:22:17 +0000

In 2010 the photogroup I founded formed part of a barrage of ‘official photographers’ at the Kirkstall Festival community event. This resulted in 300 images being taken of the image and edited down to form an official one-night-only exhibition.

The following images were a series shot on a 1930’s Voigtlander Brilliant camera on 120 film. I absolutely love the feel the camera has generated.

A huge thanks to Tim Parkin for supplying, processing and scanning the film. He shoots great landscapes, so check out his link!

And now, ‘Home from Home’ – the ’zine

strawbleu — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:12:29 +0000

Hot on the heels of finishing exhibiting in the Home from Home exhibition – I’m exhilarated to say… not only have the organisers approved my designs for the Home from Home ‘zine – a photographic record of the exhibition but… East Street Arts have agreed to print it!

I’m now waiting final information about production – but I’ll have a few to sell via this site when they’re ready!

More soon (including an online preview…)