Website update

Here are some of the new images that will be on my updated site which is coming soon.

Jon Gibbs

Matt Donovan

Tim Hall

Get back

Until recently I have been really pushing the digital aspect of my work to the point where I was losing sight of why I got into photography in the first place. Then the other day I heard an interview with Brian Smith on fstoppers.com talking about getting back to basics and getting back to a way of shooting where you actually had fun!
It was getting to a point where on a shoot I would take a DSLR, two Medium Formats, Large Format a Half Frame plus studio lights and portable flash.
By the time i'd switched cameras six times i'd missed out on any spontaneous shots.

So I took my Bronica ETRS and a back up body, a reflector and my Large Format and went to the beach with my friend Justin. I asked Justin to bring his windsurfing board and we waded into the sea, I don't think either of us were prepared for how cold it was going to be.

About 100 yards out I raised the camera to my eye, focused and pressed the shutter button, the camera made a pathetic noise and the mirror stopped half way. So I waded back to shore and swapped over to my back up body and went back out.

Even after about 200 yards due to a sand bank we were still only up to just over our knees in the water and the shot I had in mind involved the water being up to chest height, so to fake it Justin sat down.

Here is a taster of one of the contact sheets, and if you would like to here and see more behind the scenes of my work leave a comment in the field below .

Thanks for reading

Rob

The Readerswives Collective

For those of you who have perused the links at the side of this blog, you may have come across The Readerswives Collective. For those of you who haven't, here goes....

The RWC are an art collective founded in Guernsey by Andrew Smith, AKA-Rost, DJ 76 and many others. Their mission is to make art accessible to everyone and encourage new, upcoming and also established artists to network and work together.
Boasting an impressive roster of underground artists across Europe the RWC are growing in number by the day.
Check your pie before you eat it, as they've probably got their fingers in it!

I shot the above portraits of RWC founder Andrew Smith during two separate visits to Guernsey, both shot on a Mamiya C330. Top is on Ilford XP2 and bottom on Portra 160 VC.

Something old, something new

Time is a funny thing. It has a way of slipping away from you and catching you off guard.
Almost 6 years has passed since I took this portrait of Nikola Duper in Wiltshire and it is still one of my favourite images. The one below is of my friend Pete Thompson, which I took within the last month or so.
People come in and out of our lives at an alarming rate and I try to stay in contact with as many of them as humanly possible. I hope that in years to come when I am long gone my work serves as a record of the amazing people I have met along the way.

To friends, old and new.

Wayne Hemingway

Back in June I had the pleasure of meeting and photographing Red or Dead co-founder Wayne Hemingway. As usual in any situation involving a well known personality time is very limited, so it always pays to have a game plan. I walked around the building looking for a good spot and found a canteen which had floor to ceiling windows all down one side, I took my meter readings and set the camera all before hand so I was ready. I knew I wanted the background to bleed out to white behind him, so I metered accordingly. In total I shot 5 frames of which this was the best.  

All images were shot using a Bronica ETRSI with a 75mm lens.