February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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Elephant Encounters
There were two very good reasons to hook up with Parkour Generations in order to photograph the ADAPT Level 2 course taking place at the end of November.
Firstly, this was a unique collection of traceurs gathering for a week in one location. Students from the UK, France and beyond were meeting with the likes of Stephane, Yann and Chau to study and train incredibly hard. Secondly, it was taking...
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November 2011
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Ciné Parkour
2011 has seen two big events for parkour: the broadcast of Concrete Circus and the release of Dr Julie Angel’s first book, Ciné Parkour, which is now available to buy on Amazon.
Julie has spent the last 6 years researching, filming and participating in parkour, culminating in a PhD thesis that is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the discipline. One for the Christmas list.
October 2011
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September 2011
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A Compact Wedding
I recently published this article on beyondphototips.com. As well as providing a review of the Canon G12 I hope that it will be of use to amateur photographers trying to get an understanding of how to get the best out of a digital compact camera.
Back in May I finally treated myself to a Canon G12, a piece of kit that I’ve wanted since it was released the previous year, and I set myself a...
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August 2011
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Rendezvous Preparations
Today I joined the coaches for Rendezvous for a chilled afternoon at Elephant and Castle. Williams Belle led a 40 minute stretching session.
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Concrete Circus at The Barbican
Director Mike Christie’s plan for the finale to Concrete Circus was to bring all of the athletes together at one location. One of my first tasks as Researcher on the programme was to start coming up with ideas and investigating the possibilities. The brief from Mike was at first fairly loose as the idea was in its infancy: one location, somewhere in the UK, great for parkour/urban...
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July 2011
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Rendezvous 2011: Presentation
I’m pleased to announce that I will be giving a presentation of my photography at this year’s Rendezvous event hosted in London by Parkour Generations.
The photographs from my trip to India will not be published until after my exhibition at HPF later this year, but you can get a sneak preview by attending my talk. I’ll also be discussing a little of the history of my 8 years...
June 2011
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Composition: A parkour frame of mind
Susheel at BeyondPhotoTips wrote and asked if I’d be interested in writing an article on composition. Recently I’ve realised that sometimes I only discover that I have something to say once I’ve started writing. Seems a little backwards but it seems to work. Full article below.
Until writing this article, composition is something that I’ve never really given a lot of thought....
May 2011
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Ohio.
A quick snap from today, hastily edited.
Arrived in Ohio yesterday afternoon and have since received overwhelming generosity and hospitality from all of the guys at Parkour Horizons. A common theme when visiting traceurs overseas, I believe.
Today we visited Hocking Hills so that the guys could start planning the teaching that will be taking place there on Saturday. I managed to grab this very...
On Thursday I fly out to Columbus, Ohio after being invited by the guys at Parkour Horizons to attend American Rendezvous II. As well photographing the event, I’ll be giving a half hour presentation on the basics of parkour photography but also showing photographs from my recent trip to India for the first time.
Above is a quick photo of me taken by my travel companion, Thomas Couetdic,...
Concrete.
Over the last 6 weeks I’ve been working as Researcher for Renegade Pictures on Mike Christie’s latest exciting project: Concrete Circus (working title).
Due for broadcast on prime time Channel 4 in August, our documentary looks at the creation of four short films featuring four different urban sports: freerunning, flatland BMX, urban trials riding, and skateboarding. Starring in each short film...
April 2011
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Words of Wisdom: Williams Belle
“The most important motivation in Art du Déplacement, in my eyes, apart from becoming as strong as San Goku (Dragon Ball) …, is to try and be a good human being in life.”
A long time ago, a rather special group of people came together in France and created something that has dominated my life for the last 8 years. It was the same as what people had been doing for countless...
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March 2011
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Shot Stories: Thomas, Brutalism
Shortly before leaving for India in January, I asked if anyone was interested in hearing more about a specific photograph from my collection. @jeremesanders kindly got in touch and picked out one of my favourite photographs from a two-part gallery from 2009 entitled ‘Brutalism’.
The Brutalism gallery came together as a result of six shoots spread over a period of 2 years. One was at Vauxhall,...
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Excerpt: The Moments Between
An excerpt from The Moments Between
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When first invited on the journey, I questioned whether it was worth taking such a leisurely (or perhaps sluggish) means of transport. I wanted to race between Italian cities and lose as little time as possible given that there were also mountains to climb and stretches of coast to explore. I was further perturbed by Thomas’s insistence...
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Paris with Sticky.
In October last year I was approached by a magazine and asked if I could make a day trip to Paris to photograph Johnny Sticky Budden. I’ve been photographing Sticky since 2003 and have made some unforgettable trips together. Back in the day, he used to head down to my student house in Birmingham on a Friday night, crash on my floor and then we’d get up at 5am, pick up Blue Devil, and to drive to...
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Royal Enfield motorbike, east London style.
One of a strange series of coincidences in the week leading up to my trip to India, I spotted this locked up outside the cornershop just next to my house.If you have any information on where such a bike has come from it would be great to hear from you. It has Reynolds 531 tubing which I’m guessing means it can’t be more than 20 years old. Looked in pretty good condition. All you bike...
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