Crispin Hughes
Photographer
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Burners
So why is it that so many carbon footprint calculators claim to be able to offset my 6.9 ton return flight, by persuading Atoc to further reduce her already minuscule footprint? And charge me a pittance to do so. Apart from this being bizarre and arrogant, something doesn’t add up here. Mike Berners Lee agrees:”Offsetting’ […]
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SYL46 aka Brolley
Grey seal SYL46 (name changed to protect her identity), is a juvenile female: nicknamed Brolley, because she was first seen playing with an abandoned umbrella. She was kindly identified for me by the Cornwall Seal Group research Trust. She was among a small group who approached Susi and I while we were swimming along the Devon […]
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Time
An excellent double edition of Time Magazine, given over to the climate crisis, features a photo of mine from London Fashion Week 2019. You can read the ‘One Last Chance’ edition here: https://time.com/5864702/extinction-rebellion-climate-activism/
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Perimeter
Black Lives Matter There’s a point on the periphery of every demo where people cease to be part of a crowd and become private individuals again. With numbers, comes solidarity and strength, the normalisation of carrying placards and banners, chanting, cheering, and occupying the middle of the road. The usual rules do not apply. After […]
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Hulks
Update. ‘Hulks’ is currently featured in the Architects’ Journal London’s ‘modern’ offices are empty and starting to look like monuments to a bygone era of commuting and communal work spaces. ‘Great, empty hulks as a painful memory of capitalist overreach..’ as Michael Regnier from my agency, Panos, put it when he saw the photos. I […]
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Stay on the bike
During the strict lockdown I attached a camera to my bike on my once a day exercise outings. The rules were:Set the camera to shoot a frame every five secondsCycle for 45 minsTouch nothingStay on the bikeI’ve deliberately left the wonky angles uncorrected to maintain the fugitive, snatched, quality of the photos as I cycle. I’ve also left the […]
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Life of David Hughes 1926-2020
My father David Hughes died from Covid-19 on 10th April 2020 aged 93 An engaged, curious and funny man, his sense of wonder stayed with him to the end. Here is a slideshow of his life. ‘I seem to have arrived in the future’
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Climate in February
8th Feb. ‘BP Must Fall’ protest at the British Museum. BP sponsored the Troy exhibition at the BM. Protestors smuggled a trojan horse into the museum’s forecourt and held peaceful protest events around the museum. 15th Feb. London Fashion Week Extinction Rebellion staged protests outside a London Fashion Week venue in the Strand. The clothing […]
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Through Positive Eyes
Book and Exhibition I have worked on this project with Gideon Mendel and Prof. David Gere since its inception in 2007. Through Positive Eyes features insider photography by people living with HIV and AIDS. Over the past decade, the project has grown, one city per year, to become ambitiously international in scope, now encompassing ten […]
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In the Shadow of Brexit
The book A commission from Prof. Nando Sigona, at the University of Birmingham, to photograph families with one or more parents from a non-UK EU country. You can read the introduction to the book in the slideshow below or download the complete pdf book here. The accompanying website and videos can be found here. About […]
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Hunger
I’m full of admiration for Peter, Marko and Julian who spent 26 days on hunger strike outside Conservative Party HQ, in the run up to the election. They spent each day sitting in the cold outside the gates in support of XR’s three demands.
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Stone Hole
Stone Hole is a collaborative exhibition of large digital photographs by myself, and a timelapse film by Susi Arnott, made in tidal sea-caves along the shoreline of North Cornwall. Originally shown at the Photofusion Gallery in late 2009, the show will toured to Peninsula Arts in Plymouth in January 2011. My interest began as a response […]
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