June 29th, 2010
Another great weekend of intense photography backstage at Hard Rock Calling in sunny Hyde Park in good company with the LD, Coyne and Hard Rock teams as well as all the artists we met from the Hives to Elvis Costello to Corinne Bailey Rae, Melissa Etheridge, Joshua Radin, Gaslight Anthem and many more. Hopefully I’ll soon find a minute to post a few words and photos about this and the other projects I have been working on during this very busy month!
Hard Rock Calling 2010 Day 3 - the crowd just before Stevie Wonder's performance 26 June 2010
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May 19th, 2010
Tags: born dressed, brixton, burning head, dance, dogstar, exhibition, film, france, franck trebillac, Images En Scène, music video, paul gravity!, production, roxy velvet, video
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April 3rd, 2010
A brief update as spring is upon us (you know, when it gets colder again, Tfl threatening storms, too much chocolate..) with a sample of what I’ve been working on recently.
The Music Video is on its way and we’re working on the editing, here is a snapshot from the shoot.
Born Dressed music video in the making
Another successful start-up in front of my lens, JogPost is an original new company in West London for the distribution of leaflets made by.. joggers! The result being a faster delivery, better paid employees that get healthier doing it, not bad at all I say, no surprise their phone keeps ringing all the time.
Action shot for JogPost commercial shoot
In music a few new shoots, I posted a “summary of previous episodes” on my Loudpixels Blog including Suede’s first show in years at the 100 Club, Tangerine Dream at the Royal Albert Hall and I would note a big night at the O2 Arena with some of the biggest legends of Soul and Motown, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Three Degrees and The Drifters. The following photo was taken by The Three Degrees’ manager in my failed attempt to join the band with Cynthia Garrison, Valerie Holiday and Helen Scott of Three Degrees 
.
Me pretending to be a R&B singer from Philadelphia, with the legendary Three Degrees, O2 Arena in London, March 26 2010
And last but not least the big exhibition in France approaches, the Images En Scène festival at the Photomusicales De La Roche Posay on April 23, 24 and 25 where I’ll be exhibiting 50 large prints from my Loud Pixels collection, live and portraits, from Nana Mouskouri to Rihanna, from The Rolling Stones to The Maccabees, thanks to the sponsors Rainbow Color in Paris and EPSON’s Digigraphie label.
A sample of the images to be exhibited at Images En Scène, 23, 24 and 25 April 2010 at La Roche Posay, France
Tags: Digigraphie, exhibition, Limited Edition, Motown, music, music video, PR, start-up
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March 17th, 2010
A brief summary of last week since my last update.
The UK Folding Plug I photographed earlier this month have won the Brit Insurance Design Of The Year Award 2010, well done to Min-Kyu Choi and the team!
The Four Tops (shot last week) appeared in the main feature of The Times Arts&Ents last Friday, and the Sunday Times published one of my studio portraits of Marina And The Diamonds, nice double Times .
some recent The Times tear sheets
Music-photography-wise I covered the return of Craig David with his album launch at Scala last week, as well as a big sold-out show of Frightened Rabbit at KOKO which showed how fast these guys are growing, and finally Chris Rea supported by Paul Casey at the Hammersmith Apollo on Sunday night.
Craig David's new album launch at Scala, 9 March 2010
Chris Rea Performs At Hammersmith Apollo In London March 14 2010
A lot of time spent trying another time to make a fresh install on my MacBook Pro, from an empty drive, reinstalling everything one by one, for those who tried they know that it’s a long journey in front of a screen! Working on new exciting opportunities as well as on the Music Video I mentioned before, we hope it will be launched by mid April! Oh and despite these last few enjoyable sunny days I have a cold, shame, how am I going to enjoy the taste of the Guinness tonight? Happy St Patrick’s day everyone.
Tags: Chris Rea, Craig David, Design Of The Year, Design Of The Year Award, folding plug, Frightened Rabbit, Hammersmith Apollo, Koko, Paul Casey, scala, St Patrick, tear sheets, The Times
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March 6th, 2010
A great day Thursday saw me rocking up to the JW Marriott’s Grosvenor House in Park Lane carrying the quasi totality of my studio, with the help of the lovely Nicky, fellow photographer, for a shoot with some true music legends before they kick off their European tour, Motown’s best The Four Tops and The Temptations. They will be back in London on the 26th for a big show at the O2 Arena, joined by the Drifters and The Three Degrees, closing a UK Arena tour.
The Four Tops in London, March 4 2010 (L to R) Theo Peoples, Lawrence Roquel Payton Jr, Abdul Duke Fakir, Ronnie McNeir
The Temptations in London, March 4 2010. (L to R) Joe Herndon, Terry Weeks, Bruce Williamson, Otis Williams, Ron Tyson
Oh and by the way, Min-Kyu Choi’s Folding Plug, featured on my last blog entry and who I photographed last week, has won the Product category of the Brit Insurance Design Of The Year Award 2010! You can see the other category winners on the Wired site, with late Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer ‘10 collection posthumously winning the fashion award, not for sentimental reason by the way but because it is stunning. The overall winner will be announced on March 16th.
No photos this weekend, plus given I just got a bit older I kind of expect my head will be sour in the morning… . And then up for another exciting week!
Tags: Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Bruce Williamson, Design Of The Year Award, Detroit, Duke, Joe Herndon, Motown, Otis Williams, R&B, Ron Tyson, Ronnie McNeir, Roquel Payton, Soul, Terry Weeks, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Theo Peoples
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March 4th, 2010
I just can’t find time to blog these days! Ok a brief entry here with quick samples of what I have been up to lately, with two shoots at the Royal College of Art / Design London for two talented teams of inventors and designers. This is the nest of creation of great new products and commodities and it is always interesting to work for such innovator clients. It was a little while since last time I shot for a similar inventor (that was Fabrican’s Manel Torres, fashion designer come inventor who designed spray clothes, yes in a can!). Now here is first an award winning team, “Made In Mind”, built around Min-Kyu Choi, the inventor of a new revolution to come to all laptop or mobile phone users fed up of the bulky UK plug the UK folding plug.
Min-Kyu Choi's UK Folding Plug
Made In Mind - The UK folding plug's company February 26 2010, London
And yesterday’s team was from the Helen Hamlyn Center and their creation an innovative design for a hospital gown to fit all sizes, quite an odd style of “fashion” photoshoot 
.
Helen Hamlyn Center's hospital gown design, March 3 2010, London
But I need to pack and go now for an exciting photoshoot with some of the biggest legends of the Motown, direct from Detroit to Mayfair, more on this later !
Tags: Design London, Design Of The Year Award, folding plug, Helen Hamlyn Center, made in mind, Min-Kyu Choi, Royal College of Arts
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February 25th, 2010
Tuesday night I was at the Embassy in Mayfair for a London Fashion Week themed showcase and party featuring various artists including Cushh playing a couple songs while models were catwalking with samples from their Spring/Summer collection. A few shots from this night might pop up in here or on www.loudpixels.net at some point.
Wednesday night back to Mayfair, at Jalouse Nightclub this time, for yet another London Fashion Week party also mixing music and fashion. This time The Rotten Hill Gang were playing their mix of Rock and Rap while models were showcasing the Wealthy-Paupers collection from designer Johny Rocca. A non orthodox collection meant a non-orthodox show and the whole thing was pretty rock’n'roll. Despite the rumours, Mickey Rourke unfortunately did not join the fun as quite a few papers announced on the day. This gallery is on Flickr already, the Rotten Hill Gang and the Johny Rocca show.
Johny Rocca Wealthy-Paupers collection at Jalouse, Feb. 24 2010
Tags: Cushh, Embassy, Jalouse, Johny Rocca, LFW, London Fashion Week, Pop-Rocktic, Rotten Hill Gang
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February 23rd, 2010
My MacbookPro, although pretty new, is acting slow. I decided to do a “clean install”, erasing the hardrive and reinstalling Snow Leopard. I imagined reimporting only my important settings like emails, address book etc would be ultra easy but it’s not and searches through the web, apple and non-apple sites, did not give any simple answer. So after wasting too much of my day on this I decided to reinstall and migrate my old backup in from time machine, as most answers found on the web are advising. But it didn’t leave much option and just brought back everything, mess included. Now I find myself as I was before, like taking a shower and putting your dirty clothes again. Anyone knows the secret of the true clean install without losing your email, address book, itunes account etc etc?
This was for the techie Mac, now for a far more sweet Mac, the musician one. Absolute Radio session at the Hard Rock Café with Amy MacDonald last night.
Amy MacDonald live at the Hard Rock Café London 22 Feb. 2010
Tags: Amy MacDonald, IT, linkedin, Live, Mac, music
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February 21st, 2010
Terrible weather today, I used a bit of time for editing. Yesterday was a travel challenge with all these tube disruptions and a shoot in Kentish Town followed by Depeche Mode at the O2 Arena. I heard that it has been chaos at the end of the show for the audience to get home. I left way before the panic, in a rather empty Clipper for a nice “London by night on the river” journey back home while preparing the images for wiring to Redferns.
So some samples of the results, starting with the shoot featuring experimental rock band Foxy Shazam from Cincinnati, who supported Hole last week at the Empire. Read and hear more about them here.
Foxy Shazam shoot, Camden 20 February 2010
Depeche Mode live at the O2 Arena. A gallery can be seen here. More generally, any music photo material is also blogged & displayed on my music photography site www.loudpixels.net.
Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode at the O2 Arena, London 20 February 2010
And finally the boat trip back home with a nice view on the impressive O2 Arena.
The O2 Arena from the Thames
Tags: Andrew Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Foxy Shazam, linkedin, Martin Gore, O2
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February 19th, 2010
I had a look at how my site looks on IE today. Well it’s not brilliant! I suppose a professional webdesigner would have done some cross-browser test before throwing the site on-air but it looked so nice on Firefox, I’ve just been a bit idealistic thinking that browser coders are all following the same standard hey. So for those who see strange things happening on their own browser please give me a shout so I make sure it will soon look great to everyone.
I’m also trying to find a nice way to allow the images to be seen at their best – which is a 24×36 ratio, same format as SLR images. I just added a link at the bottom of the page to resize to the best ratio but again it seems only Firefox is happy to comply . Any suggestion welcome!
Ok I shall end my geeky post here. Not sure where I’ll carry my lenses tonight if anywhere, I heard Innercity Pirates play at Cargo and I was a big fan of them when they used to be still called My Red Cell, it is a mystery to me that they didn’t make it big considering the awesome album they had then. Oh and stay tuned this weekend for some Depeche Mode goodness which I shall post on the night after their O2 Arena show .
Now off to take some shots of a very very clever invention that will make a revolution for anyone who are tired of traveling with their oversized UK plugs, more on this very soon!
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