A small selection of images that I recently took of Bank of New York Mellon's slick new offices in Manchester. Designer BDGworkfutures had previously completed the bank's offices at Canary Wharf, and the Manchester workplace uses a similar design language, including white lacquered joinery and warm accent colours.
A few shots of a rather swish pad in Putney, designed by architect Imogen Planner. The project features a large rear extension, providing a cavernous kitchen and family space.
Highlight of the shoot was working with Jackson, Imogen's very friendly and funny basset hound, who even got to appear in a couple of the photos! You can spot him in the shot looking over the dining table into the lounge (below). He quite happily posed for the long exposure shots, but kept snuffling in my camera bag and disappearing with my squeezy rocket air blower in his mouth. Here is a picture of Jackson, taken by Imogen during the shoot.
Jackson is very relaxed in front of the camera, and has even been photographed by Martin Parr.
Recent weeks has also seen me working alongside a stunning maine coon on a shoot for another architectural practice. To get a staircase shot, I had to lie on my back looking upwards, and was suddenly weighed down by the cute kitty as she leapt onto my stomach. A bit later she dug her claws deep into my arms as a braking mechanism when sliding down a staircase handrail.
More pets on photo shoots please.
Here's a scintillating selection of my recent shots of The French Café, designed by Brighton-based consultancy Platform.
The 100-cover neighbourhood restaurant was completed to a tight budget and timescale, and incorporates a brand identity aimed to entice both male and female customers. A mixture of old, new and reclaimed materials and furniture was used to create the interior, which draws inspiration from wrought-iron Parisian railings and the hand-drawn signage of provincial eateries.
And if Time Out is to be believed, the food is pretty darn good too.
I recently had a trip up to the outskirts of Cambridge to shoot the furniture installation at the new Institute for Manufacturing, designed by Arup Associates.
The two-storey split-level building features a central refectory space which is furnished with a mix of lounge and café-style seating. Furniture was supplied by local firm Breathe Group, who also space-planned the interiors.
With today's crisp autumn sunshine, I couldn't resist a quick trip to Richmond Park. Especially as we had been trapped in crowded trains for more than five hours on a train coming back from Chesterfield yesterday, thanks to the ineptitude of East Midlands Trains. Richmond Park is - in my opinion at least - the most glorious of London's parklands, a vast swathe of grass, lakes and trees that really makes you feel like you are miles from anywhere. And although the best of autumn colour has passed, there was still plenty to keep me happy.
Back from Chesterfield, having had a fantastic weekend with the Knit Nurse and her lovely folks. Although there primarily for the Chesterfield Arts and Markets Festival, we found time to head into the hills for a yomp around Bakewell. The glorious sunshine and a stop midway for lunch at the Lathkil Hotel in Over Haddon certainly helped to keep the pace up. And I even managed to get a few snaps en route.
Thanks to my recent meanderings around England's coast on behalf of CABE, I was asked by arts organisation Animate Projects to write an essay in response to three short films about the seaside.
Animate Projects commissioned the films as part of CABE's Sea Change initiative. The artists Susan Collins, Andrew Kötting and Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore were each asked to make a "seaside postcard" from a Sea Change-funded town that they live in or nearby.
The films - which are set in Bridlington, Hastings and Teignmouth - were premiered at the recent SeaScape conference, part of the Skegness International SEAS Festival.
You can read my essay - and more importantly watch the films - on Animate's website>
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