Martin Parr - British Cities: Cardiff

Today with the Guardian comes a supplement shot by Martin Parr about Cardiff. The coverage is quite good. There's even a place I haven't been to: the Canton Liberal Club. Probably because I go to the New Park Liberal Club in Canton, but hey, this one he shot is posh. On the other hand, the photography is sort of average. No Martin Parr classics in this one, although it's not bad bad. Ash and Nick from Spillers are there, Ninjah is there, the Clwb is there.

I must have almost bumped into him with Maciej one day. He shot the Heineken Cup final in rugby, and writes "The city was very lively indeed that night, as Munster fans gave the Welsh a lesson in drinking and celebrating". He sadly doesn't include a photograph of the city at night, though, but one of the match. I took this one that night:





Ah, Munster fans...

Welsh Surfaces 2nd Edition, on Blurb

I revamped the layouts of Welsh Surfaces, and now it is available on blurb for £8.45. I'm waiting to see if the double page spreads work this time. On the first edition they ran over the spine! Dammit!

Seen in Arles... Andrej Ban

Another photographer whose name I wrote down in Rencontres d'Arles is Andrej Ban. I probably saw his work in the slideshows of the European Night. He's a Slovakian reporter, and you can see more of his stuff in his webpage. Some strong stories in there, although the stuff that makes me most curious is that he has a book about Slovakia. Close to home is usually good...

Italian summer

It's quite surprising how much the number of interesting Italian photographers has increased in the last year. I guess it's all slightly based around the growth of fotografi di strada, the Italian street photography group. I'll misrepresent them as mischievious little buggers with very direct shots and some sense of humour. So as for trying to get simplistic tags that other people can misrepresent as well.


- cafone


- ciarlicappa


- laura rodari


- philip koch


- pigei


- sanoi


I guess this summer I can be expecting more of the same. Plus the oddities of hardcore animal farm photography. Hum.

Arles: Night of the Year

In Rencontres d'Arles I was showing photographs in a slideshow with tangophoto. Here is a photograph of what the crowd that did not manage to get a seat looked like:





We were sharing our nice little square with a new music magazine called Vox Pop. I met by chance three girls from the magazine at a restaurant earlier, when I handed them my mosquito spray. Arles was full of mosquitos. Here the girls from the magazine look a bit lost:





And here are my new Dutch contacts, who were producing excellent photographs in a centric square of la Roquette by the simple act of bringing their own wine with them:






There's a different edit of the night in the f blog.

Arles: Christian Lacroix fashion show

I had free entry to the Christian Lacroix fashion show in Rencontres d'Arles. My seat was very very far away, so at some point I dodged the guy that was handling the big spotlight on stage and just walked down there. I shot maybe a dozen pictures, but was lucky enough to catch one of the two guys kicked out of stage. At some point they just ran into the middle of the stage and started to dance. As can be seen, one of them is carrying two cameras!












(All pics by me.)

Arles Polaroids: improvised Cardiff by Night Exhibition

Shot by Cyril Costilhes. Exhibited on the window of Pharmacie du Forum.