Crispin Hughes
Photographer
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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 toured to Peninsula Arts in Plymouth in January 2011. My interest began as a response to…
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Creating a scene: XR Oct. 2019 Rising
I’m working out how best to photograph Extinction Rebellion. A friend of mine tells me she does not support XR because their disruptions alienate people who need to be brought on side. So perhaps it’s best to back away from XRs photogenic performances to include the bystanders and their reactions. Much of the time this…
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Keepers
What do we keep and what do we cast out? Susi Arnott and I have been working with a portable daylight studio on the Thames foreshore, to produce an almost indiscriminate catalogue of objects, many collected during Thames 21’s clean-up and research events. Objects of disgust will be returned to the river or bagged-up for recycling…
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Duck
Update! Duck will be screening at Cody Dock, (E16 4TL) on Sat. 31st May 2025, as part of London Rivers Week. Details here: https://www.artrabbit.com/events/london-rivers-week-riverscapes Duck is a single screen 8.5 min, 16:9 ratio, film with stereo sound for gallery or cinema screening. The film emerges from our collaboration with Prof. Sofia Olhede at the UCL…
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Swimming for The Economist
This autumn Susi Arnott and I worked on a commission for The Economist’s Christmas special on swimming in cold, fresh water. We swam and collected stills, video and audio in rivers and Lakes around England. You can read journalist Emma Hogan’s excellent piece here. Photographs of cold water swimmers tend to be gentle social satires…
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Beasts of Burden
A trip to the Kathmandu Valley to photograph the human and animal workforce in brick kilns. Mules are bred in India and purchased there to work in Nepal’s brick kilns. If they survive in reasonable condition they can be sold on as mountain pack animals at the end of the season. The mule owners bring with…
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