February 2012
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January 2012
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Solo show in Paris
Greetings comrades,
It may please you (it certainly pleases me!) to know that I will be having a solo show in Paris in a couple of weeks. I first met with the great crew at La Petite Poule Noire during Paris Photo in November and we spent the next month discussing the possibility of an exhibition. I’m thrilled to say this has come to pass.
So for everyone in the vicinity, please consider...
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Mailing List
Ok kids, I’ve gone and set up a mailing list to keep you in the personal one-to-one (ok, one-to-many) loop in case of future interesting Hin Chua-related announcements? Why? Because future interesting Hin Chua-related announcements are pending.
So sign up here!
December 2011
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The Great Leap Sideways
Stanley on The Great Leap Sideways has posted an interesting little essay on ‘After the Fall’.
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Boso Peninsula, January 2011 →
Here’s a few little paragraphs on fototazo about a photograph I made in Japan earlier this year.
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November 2011
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October 2011
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You all look the same to me
Prior to boarding the Cathay Pacific flight at Heathrow, the customs official flipped through my papers and dryly remarked “now that’s a pretty well used passport!” I’d never paid heed to the fact before, but he was right. Beginning as a bumpkin who had remained within Australia’s borders for seven years and never visited Europe till 2004, I somehow managed to almost...
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Reflections on my first day in Beijing
Before I arrived in Beijing, there was a period of a couple of days where I was feeling extremely apprehensive about returning to China. I had last visited Shanghai at the end of 2007, when my process of working was far less disciplined (it was almost completely free-form to be honest: turn up at a random location, walk around for several hours without any map or any idea I where I was going and...
September 2011
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It's camera sale time!
I’ve procrastinated. I’ve debated the subject. I’ve agonised. But finally, I’m decided. Writing my last post was what prompted me to finally do it: I’ve resolved to sell as many of my cameras as I’ve can.
Maybe it’s because I’ve managed to convince myself they’re irreplaceable, but I’ve always hung on to most of my cameras for an unnaturally long period. When I’m out photographing, when I...
August 2011
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Reining myself in: a few unadulterated, unedited...
I’ve talked in the past about speaking your mind (or not speaking your mind) in public. I know that I’ve given some polished, professional interviews when I’ve willingly reined myself in to a sometimes considerable degree; those who know me in person will appreciate the difference. On other occasions, typographical and layout constraints have forced my answers to be succinct.
When I was pondering...
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Speaking (in Brighton)
One of the things I’ve been doing a lot more of in the last couple of years has been talking about photography. I’ve always respected artists who have been able to talk eloquently about their work and spin an interesting story around their photographs. One occasionally feels the urge to call bullshit, but I’ll excuse most implausible justifications for making photographs if they’re at least clever...
June 2011
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Sex or photography: which would you give up? (a...
It’s been a summer of incredible busy-ness so far. Even though I’m still not making as many photographs as I’d like, every spare moment seems to be fully allocated. I can’t remember spending any weekend over the last two months actually in London, I’ve either been travelling, shooting or having adventures with various groups of friends.
Here’s something that happened in, whoa, February: Adam...
February 2011
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'After the Fall' at the 2011 FORMAT Festival
I’ll be exhibiting ‘After the Fall’ at the FORMAT Festival in Derby in March 2011. There’ll be a diverse and interesting range of work being shown: I’ll personally be curious to see Amy Stein, Bruno Quinquet and Trent Parke amongst others (you’ll find my exhibition at the QUAD).
The theme of this year’s exhibition was “exposures in the public realm” and when I was invited to submit a proposal,...
Looking back at 2010
Here’s every place outside of the United Kingdom that I photographed in 2010. Looking back, the list initially appears puny and undersized, but in hindsight, almost anything would pale in comparison to my epic 2009 (when I somehow managed to spend more than four months out of the country).
Almeria
Central Virginia
Dunkerque
Japan
The Netherlands
Madrid
Paris
Rome
Self-flagellation...
January 2011
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Turning Point
A mile from Zhang Jiang High Technology Park, Shanghai, 2007
I should be writing to tell you all about 2010 (screw 2011!), but I’m knee-deep in my scanning and planning my next photographic expedition. To tide you over till next week (I promise), here’s an (extended version of) article I wrote for last year’s fLIP magazine about a particular turning point in my photographic...
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A 2011 Resolution
A New Years’ resolution for 2011 has been to write more about myself, for myself. I’m not talking about your run-of-the-mill “personal press releases” designed to convince people how talented and wonderful I am (because hell, that’s stating the blooming obvious isn’t it?)
Instead, I want to perforate the impenetrable veneer of the professional artist, to discuss some of what goes on behind the...
November 2010
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WatchThis is the ‘After the Fall’ slideshow which was recently shown at the ASA Collective slideshow in London. I’ve been trying to figure out how to better represent this project ever since the LOOKbetween event in Virginia, where I was exposed to the complete gamut of multimedia presentation options.
In the end, I settled on a simple approach of working with a sequence of paired photographs. I didn’t...
September 2010
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The Savignano Festival
The Savignano Festival opens tomorrow in Rimini, Italy. Amongst the artists showing their work will be Roger Ballen, Mark Steinmetz (as far as I’m concerned, the ultimate photographer’s photographer!) and Martin Parr. But hey, amongst all that goodness will be six of my photographs as part of Urbanautica’s Naturae exhibition.
So go see Ballen, go see Steinmetz, go see Simon...
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Britain versus Spain in Lithuania
If you happen to be in Kaunas, Lithuania over the next week, you’ll undoubtedly stumble across the Kaunas Photography Festival. Over the course of several nights, they’ll be showing a series of Photography Duels where selected photographers from competing countries will be pitted against each other in a battle to the finish (or more likely, gentle applause).
Included in the...
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My favourite "death of photojournalism" essay
Last month, Neil Burgess (a former head of Magnum and current head honcho of NB Pictures) caused a bit of a stir when he declared the death of photojournalism.
As Burgess himself mentions, people have been writing about the end of photojournalism for decades. Reading his piece reminded me of my favourite article on this subject.
In 2003, Urs Stahel presented a lecture celebrating the 10th...
August 2010
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I was interviewed on THE INVISIBLE PH T GRAPHER... →
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Satellite Map (Bilbao)
And here’s where I went:
View on Google Maps
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WatchMy friend Brian Lesteberg showed this video at the LOOKbetween event in Virginia this summer. It was one of my favourites, he’s an underrated, understated and very good photographer.
The day I got really wet with Laura Pannack →
Laura drove us to Folkestone. During the course of the day, I moonlighted as her assistant, helped her look for a missing camera part in the sand (we never found it) and managed to get completely soaked by a sudden thunderstorm. And great fun was had by all!
July 2009
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June 2009
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“I would call it ‘intentionality’. Sometimes I meet young artists and it becomes...”
– Stephen Shore, in response to the question “Do you need a philosophy to do great work?” in Image Makers, Image Takers: The Essential Guide to Photography by Those in the Know