Crispin Hughes

Photographer

  • Creating a scene: XR Oct. 2019 Rising

    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 […]

  • Keepers

    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 […]

  • Duck

    Duck

    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 Big Data Institute. Duck premiered at the London Experimental Film Festival in Jan. 2019. Please contact us at crispinhughes@gmail.com if you wish to screen […]

  • Swimming for The Economist

    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 […]

  • Beasts of Burden

    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 […]

  • The battle for the Pullens. June 1986

    The battle for the Pullens. June 1986

    I’ve recently dug out and scanned these photos I took of the ‘Battle for the Pullens Estate’ 32 years ago. Now a thriving mix of residential and working spaces the Pullens estate came very close to being completely obliterated. On June 10th 1986 squatters attempted to repel police and bailiffs intent on evicting them prior to the […]

  • Bobby and Stillman up and running at UCL Science Library

    Bobby and Stillman up and running at UCL Science Library

    UCL Science Library, Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT 020 7679 7795 Admission free Monday to Friday 09:30 – 19.00, Saturdays 11:00 – 17:45 July 27th. – September 22nd. 2017 UCL Science Library, in the heart of Bloomsbury: a longer run for the exhibition Bobby & Stillman, by Susi Arnott and Crispin Hughes, working with Professors of […]

  • Bobby&Stillman in the Science Library

    Bobby&Stillman in the Science Library

    art, maths, movies and point-of-view Bobby and Stillman, our collaboration with mathematicians from UCL’s Big Data Institute is getting a long run at the UCL Science Library. UCL Science Library, Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT 020 7679 7795 Admission free Monday to Friday 09:30 – 20:45, Saturdays 11:00 – 17:45 July 27th. – September 22nd. […]

  • Bobby and Stillman completes its run at Bar Juju

    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

  • Bobby and Stillman Show

    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 […]

  • Bobby and Stillman

    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 […]

  • Protected: Re-enacting history

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