Category: UK
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Bobby and Stillman completes its run at Bar Juju
‘Bobby and Stillman’, our collaboration with Professors Sofia Olhede and Patrick Wolfe of UCL’s Big Data Institute, completed its run as part of the Creative Reactions show 15 – 18th May 2017. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPdXSqI-ApM&w=1280&h=720] Stimulating social context for inter-disciplinary discussions! See explainerising PDF handout here Bobby + Stillman in more detail
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Bobby and Stillman Show
‘Bobby and Stillman’ will be opening as part of Creative Reactions at: Juju’s Bar and Stage, Truman Brewery, 15 Hanbury St. (off Brick Lane), London E1 6QR. The free show at Juju’s bar will be open from midday till 6pm Tuesday 16th to Thursday 18th May. Do call by and see us. From 7-10pm 15-18th May there will…
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Bobby and Stillman
A new tidal collaboration with Dr Susi Arnott. This time we’re working with Prof. Sofia Olhede as part of UCL’s Creative Reactions science-art project. Two time-lapse cameras (Bobby and Stillman), each accompanied by a stereo sound recorder, eye each-other as the tide rises around them close to London Bridge. Together they create a dialogue between a…
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Crossness Pumping Station Open Day
Sunday 23rd October was Open Day at the Crossness Pumping Station. The ‘Thames Tides’ installation, created by Susi Arnott and I, screened throughout the day alongside the mighty beam engines. You can still catch the show this Friday 28th Oct. Details and photos below. Crossness Pumping Station. Friday 28th Oct. 2016 Where?Crossness Pumping StationThe Old…
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Thames Tides at Crossness Pumping Station
Thames Tides is screening alongside the beam engines at the ethereal Crossness Engine House. The huge building combines ponderous machinery and delicate filigree work to astonishing effect. Its function was to pump London’s sewage up above the level of the Thames and release it on an outgoing tide. What better place to screen Thames Tides? Here…
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Thames Tides moves to the Bartlett School of Architecture
We’re on the move again Thames Tides will be showing at the Bartlett School of Architecture on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th September 2016. 140 Hampstead Rd.NW1 2BX. (Room G02, Ground floor) Free entry 10am – 6pm. Please email or give us a call (crispinhughes@gmail.com 0207 207 0608) to arrange entry. Here are some photos and videos taken…
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Thames Tides at the Brunel Sinking Shaft
Our Thames Tides installation has opened at the weird and wonderful Brunel Sinking Shaft in Rotherhithe. Only running till Friday 16th Sept. so get along quickly!Details here:https://thamestides.wordpress.com/screenings/
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Thames Tides at the Cinema Museum
‘Thames Tides’ launched at the Cinema Museum in Kennington, London on Sunday 4th September. See the Thames Tides website for more details and upcoming screenings.
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Thames Tides
A large-scale, 5-screen projected installation, created along the tidal Thames in central London This is my latest collaborative show with Susi Arnott. Twice a day, the Thames rises many metres to fill secret, enclosed spaces in central London. Cameras and stereo microphones, held under wharves, jetties and office-blocks, recorded four distinct audio films. Starting slowly,…
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A London Bangladeshi Wedding
I was delighted to be invited to my neighbour’s London Bangladeshi wedding. The walima (reception) was huge with around 800 guests and four photographers equipped with drones and smoke machines. The day after the wedding I was asked round to photograph the preparations for the ‘bride feast’. A way of welcoming the bride to her new…
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Darbishire Place, Whitechapel
An ongoing commission for Niall McLaughlin Architects: to photograph the flats and residents in this Stirling Prize shortlisted Peabody block. Much architectural photography has an arid and ghostly or post apocalyptic feel. The buildings are presented without people, in creepily perfect weather and light, as though they subsist for and of themselves. We are hard-wired to respond…
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Caesarian
Seven people go into a room and eight people come out. Anaesthetists don’t just work with unconscious patients. This expectant mother is being guided through a magic trick. Sitting beside her, the anaesthetist asks questions, tells her what is happening, and what she can expect to feel and hear. His team help bridge the gap between her…