Good Rats

Photographer and filmmaker Niall O'Brien has been documenting the lives of a group of young punks from south west London over the last three years. He currently has an exhibition called Good Rats at Art Work Space, showcasing a selection of photographs from his project. Worth a visit.

"There's something beautiful about capturing the spontaneity of youth".

Good Rats runs until March 11 at Art Work Space, Lower Ground Floor, The Hempel Hotel, 31-35 Craven Hill Gardens, London, W2 3EA. Tel. +44 (0)20 7298 9000

Big Active's Simian

Don't you just love these Simian record sleeves by Big Active?
Fantastical taxidermy with minimal art direction and clean typography gives you pure gorgeousness. yum...
I want to eat them.

empty LA

check it out here

Evolution of the Levitating Body

Jacques Henri Lartigue 1905


Herni Cartier-Bresson 1932


Aaron Siskind 1956



Denis Darzacq 2007



Cat Clothing / Fold7 – Earthmovers 2009

And then...

Cat Clothing from Time-Slice® Films on Vimeo.

Snimky Published —

My good friend Dario Utreras is currently publishing 4 issues of his gorgeous photography zine, called Snimky.

Snimky is filled with evocative images of everyday life. The photographers come from as far as China, Russia and Venezuela. The most interesting part about Snimky is how each issue is created.

This is Snimky

A seasonal photography zine. A number of disposable cameras are mailed to seven photographers. Within the same week, all cameras are both used and returned to Great Britain. A zine is assembled with a selection of photos from each camera. A series of slow self-published issues appear occasionally at Donlon Books, or near a hundred coffee meetings. The latest edition of all four issues will be available by the end of November at Donlon Books, published through Household.

Sara Ramo - Movable Planes

Went to see Sara Ramo's first UK exhibition at The Photographer's Gallery last week. Ramo uses film, installation and photography to explore notions of order and disorder within a domestic setting. I really like the way she constructs imaginary narratives from everyday objects. Despite there only being a limited number of pieces, it's worth going to see. Shame there wasn't more!



'How to Learn What Happens in the Natural Order of Things'


'The Milky Way'


'Invasion of Everything that was Restrained'

Amelia's World

I've had my eye on a sweet little book by photographer, Robin Schwartz for some time, and just today I stumbled across some of the photographs featured in his book. Here are some of my favourites, welcome to Amelia's World...

Points of Interest: Ville Varume

Ville Varumo, born and raised in Finland.
Started taking pictures as a teenager.
Hasn't done anything else since, and doesn't want to.
At the moment he resides and works in Helsinki, Finland.

Where's the Ville Varumo photography book? We need to see more of him.






Some of his photographs have the distinctive Scandanavian look - they could be stills taken from a Roy Andersson film, one of which is a must see! (below)

Points of Interest: Laura Letinsky

I recently discovered Laura Letinsky's photographs whilst trying to find images of unusual food set ups. Working in the classic still-life genre, Letinsky's images are influenced by the traditions of Seventeenth-Century dutch and Post-Impressionist painting, but remain photographic because of the distinctive angles at which the images are taken.


Jean Siméon Chardin: Still Life with Peaches, a Silver Goblet, Grapes and Walnuts approx 1759 - 1760

Laura Letinksy: Untitled 49, 2002, from the ‘I did not remember I had forgotton’ series





'Morning and Melancholia' a series of still-life photographs, focus on the relationship between narrative, visual information, and the flat surface of the picture. These photographs depict the “aftermath" of making food and eating it; greasy finger prints on a glass, wasps scavenging for something sweet, discarded worn-laden apples and fat-streaked knives began almost as details and elaborations from her earlier couples series “Venus Inferred”. In this work, Latinsky explores the formal relationship between ripeness and decay, delicacy and awkwardness, control and haphazardness, waste and plentitude, pleasure and sustenance".