» Newhaven Editorial for our new publication.
Shoot at Newhaven
After a handy tip off by a fellow flickr member I found out about a site in Newhaven well over a year ago now, after almost shooting there a few times I managed somehow to keep avoiding the place… don’t know why, it just seemed to need a really good idea and at the time I didn’t have it.
But good ideas always come along when you least expect them, and after a few beers with emma (its always a few beers that start these things) and growing frustration about having to curtail some ideas due to the studio business, (its amazing the time it takes running a business like this, even when you are a team of three dedicated and hardworking individuals) anyways I decided to have a ‘sit-down’ with Louie Banks/ and Sam Hiscox – you all know some of this know but stick with it. On fairly grey afternoon outside the Prince Albert I explained to them both that I wanted to put together a very special edition fashion magazine and that they were the guys I wanted to do it with. As you will all know they are both doing great things at the minute- well have been for ages actually and this would be a chance to bring all our ideas togther under one label. So that’s what we have done- we are still all shooting stories for it now, so I cant link to anything that you can actually buy yet but it wont be long. We have gathered together a great team in Emma, Stevi and Sally who I mailed about the idea many months ago, but we were stuck on some online concept then, this one will be an honest-to-god hold in your hands sweet deal of a hand stitched mag. The Girls are gonna cover much of the styling aspects, but also contribute ideas, promote the magazine, come up with stories they may want to shoot, it’s a sort of democracy- I hope anyway….so keep looking for updates, we will have a pre launch blog up very soon. These images here are just outtakes… don’t worry there is plenty of goodness left to come.
So looking for ideas for the first story we (emma and I) hopped in the strangely ‘street’ car of my buddy, dope photographer and emmas twin Andy Parker and hightailed it looking for a dinosaur park- you may have seen the tweets a while back. We found some but they were a bit shit to be honest, so after a while we found ourselves back at the abandoned warehouse in Newhaven and suddenly all the ideas for the shoot seemed to come together.
Newhaven Editorial
I have got to say I think it’s the best story I have shot yet- and it was a real pleasure to work on a lot of the images as a team, normally I am pretty rigid about what I want, but we kinda let this one evolve, with a lot of input from both Emma and Tash, and its got something different. I really hope you like it. Oh and its all film, not a megapixel in sight.
I should mention that after scoping the building off and on for over 2 years the day we arrived they were knocking most of it down, I should also mention Emma took off her heavy jacket to go and charm the foreman, who seemed to forget al aspects of Health and Safety. I should mention we were in a part of the building that we had said we wouldn’t go to, when the walls started shaking and we realised they were knocking the walls down two floors below us. I should also mention that trying to run down tiny starcases with lighting rigs is pretty near impossible. I should also mention that the digger driver just went back and forth with an empty skip all day just so he could watch the action.
And that both girls had scabbed knees from more drunk falling down situations (nothing to do with me- I live like a mormon- well except from the polygamous inbreeding aspect) . Oh and that I made Elin lay down in a mass of dead pigeon feathers and a fair bit of bird crap, and somehow she still looked amazing, or that Sally seemed to channel the spirit of Audrey Horne and it all just seemed to come together so perfectly that we even made it to the pub in time for kick-off of the Champions League semi final.
So keep looking for the blog, it will come soon and then that means the mag wont be far behind….
May 7th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Knowing very little about the magazine aspect but understanding the shoot concept, and having walked around the place before the ball swung into action, I have to say from these previews, it is looking really fantastic.
I am genuinely intrigued to see what you did with lights, as I think these roids have nailed it 100%.