did my first shoot today for GangUp issue 2, with the always on-point Emma Sandham-King, and can safely say its the best thing we have shot so far. It may prove to be a bit divisive but really think it works, will upload a polaroid tomo.
Nicholas Blake, who was on the first Creative Photography course that I taught at Garage Studios has just put up an online exhibition of images which runs from Friday 23rd October – Wednesday 11th November 2009. Click this to go there.
Its a very considered piece of work and instead of being full of my usual braggado attitude I am just gonna recommend kinda calmly that you go and have a look at it, and read the expo intro as well first.
I think that first course threw out some really interesting results and reactions from a lot of the people on it, not sure whether it was due to the group itself, or my someone excited frantic approach, but Matt and I get a real kick out of a lot of the further work that the students have gone on to make. I am not gonna use this post to sell the idea of it, but just want you to go look at Nick’s work.
Thats all….
Your life is my vanity project- three weeks later
Georgie Hobday. Thursday 15th Oct 2009. 5.00pm-6.00pm
Polaroid 340 Land Camera- Brighton
Georgie Hobday- Your Life is my Vanity Project-week 3
Shot on fuji Neopan, on Olympus mju11.
I have started the new part of the project with Elin. I am kinda excited and confused by this. Its 10 months since i first shot Elin, when she came to Garage Studios with the stone cold photo killer Mr Banks.
You can also see my first polaroid of her….
My first Polaroid of Elin
I busted down to the hideous but kinda cool Brighton centre on friday night under the pretense of shooting the freshers at the ball with the Garage Studios pop up studio, but really I was just totally scoping out new models and getting mad liquored up… ya know how it is…..
You will be able to see all the images on the Garage site soon, the gallery links not live yet tho…. but I have put a few of them up on the GS Blog as well.
Garage-studios at Freshers Ball@Brighton Centre
Garage-studios at Freshers Ball...
Garage-studios at Freshers Ball... - I dont walk i get carried...
Garage-studios at Freshers Ball...
Lit with a beauty dish, we roll quick and tight… why the hell am i typing this like a 12yr old wannabe gangsta… i should take Wu off myy headphones and grow up…
It was all out pure mayhem from start to finish, big ups to matt, nick and charlie for crowd control- well kinda control, honestly its like these students had just left home and been unleashed on a new city with loads of cash in their pocket and mad access to cheap booze… oh and yeah we really have put a watermark over brick…. cos you’d have to be a pro to clone that shit out… Boom….
We have a lot of shoots planned this week at Garage, but thought some of you might like this. One of the fashion editorial make_up artists I use a lot has just had 19, thats 19 Special edition covers of V magazine published. You can see her work here
Janeen Witherspoon for V magazine
This was all done by Janeen Witherspoon, who is hella dope, and has a salon called Square Roots on North Rd, she has shot a fair bit of stuff with me including the killer tanlines shoot for GangUp,
Dont Forget Your Sunscreen _GangUp Issue 1
and the current cover of Arty magazine,
Cover of Current issue for Arty magazine.
Anyway as you can see her work is brilliant, go and click on the first link to see all the covers, and the amazing concept shot by Paul Rowland. If you havent figured it by now, there is something pretty special about the ruff the model is wearing above…..
Your life is my vanity project- two weeks later
Georgie Hobday. Thursday 8th Oct 2009. 5.15pm-6.15pm
Well this was an interesting one….
Week3 * non directed make-up changes in an hour.
Your life is my vanity project- one week later
Georgie Hobday. Storm Agency Model Thursday 1st October 2009 4.45pm-5.45pm
Inside American Apparel.
Georgie Hobday- Your life is my vanity project- one week later
Georgie Hobday- Your life is my vanity project- one week later
After my twitter appeal for a work experience candidate I had Mary come in today and help me with scanning some poalroids. I was asked a few months ago to be part of the Shashin Collective and as soon as I saw Phil Sharp on there as the first name, I was hooked on the idea but a lot of things delayed me getting onto the selecting of images that I would send, then I went to the US to rest my brain and finally now am getting around to it.
At this point I am not sure 100% whether to send something very focussed or a wide range of work, but have now submitted something, lets hope they like it… anyway its an opportunity to get round to all the scanning I need for this and various projects. Mary started with a bunch of polaroids of Sally Reynolds and it looks like I am one step closer to starting that book on her, which is a massive relief. I am not sure whether it will be done by the end of the year but I am really going to try, especially as we (Garage Studios) have been asked to do a book for a big photography publisher, it seems the ideal time. Obviously this is very much a personal project, but hopefully you’ll get to see a whole host of images that have not made it out into the world yet… As a taster here is a bunch of Polaroids of Sally, dont worry no matter what happens with the book I wont be doing the layout myself, so it wont look as chaotic as the image below….
Sally Reynolds- Polaroid 600 shots, new scans
This is a huge load of work to get through and so if anyone else is looking for some part time studio experience as well, then please get in touch here info@darkdaze.org , or in the comment box below or on the Garage Studios site
Ideally you’ll have some experience working with scanning negs and prints, and some photoshop skills, but I’ll happily teach you if you have some enthusiasm for the task. It doesnt really matter how many hours you can spare, evenings, weekdays or weekends, in return you’ll get some tuition, a lot of cups of tea, and the potential great opportunities that working in a busy professional shooting studio will offer. This is just work experience though, so its unpaid, but if you want to work in the industry then this may be of help to you.
If your just into the photos then keep checking in and I will have more news on the Sally project soon (there is more here), plus a new set of work with Elin and more from the recent projects with Georgie…. Looks like I finally have my brain back in gear after the harshness of the past few months… whoop….
Georgie Hobday. Storm Agency Model Thursday 24th September 2009 4.45pm-5.45pm
Georgie Hobday- Storm Model Agency- 24th Spet 4.45-5.45pm
Part1.
Your life is my Vanity Project.