Friday, 3 December 2010

Invite From Artist Sophia Wallace - NYC

From Sophia Wallace NYC
Please join me at two exciting events. For a quicker read, I've started with a high level summary followed by full descriptions. 

December 8 - Truer in the Slideluck Auction Benefit at Sandbox Studio in Tribeca.
December 10 & 11 - OPEN STUDIO New work and moving to a spacious, daylight studio in Sunset Park is the occasion for this event. Please join me, for large prints, wine and cheese.

Slideluck Auction Fundraiser Why attend? The Party For those who don’t know Slideluck, their parties are known to overflow with the some of the brightest stars in the industry. Sotheby's will run the live auction which features almost 50 works. Bron Imaging is providing a mistletoe photobooth.

The Artists The list of artists who are donating work for this auction is truly phenomenal, a short list includes Elinor Carucci, Phillip Toledano, Jan Von Holleben, Vincent Laforet, Andrew Hetherington, Ruben Natal-San Miguel and more, auction preview here.

The Food Speaking to the foodies now, Slideluck is known for combining a serious passion for photography with a hard core appreciation of culinary delights. 7 underground supper clubs are serving locally sourced dinner and dessert. Wine will be poured by the Noble Rot and for the beer drinkers, know that Brooklyn Brewery is in full support. Now to the most important part.  The Cause.

Youth Empowerment through Photography Proceeds from this event will go to the organization and their Youth Initiative which works nationally and globally to empower underprivileged kids through photography and multimedia storytelling.  As a kid growing up in Seattle, I was personally transformed by youth empowerment programs. In college, I then discovered documentary film-making. From there, my whole life changed. I know firsthand how monumental it can be to gain access to these tools. In telling my own story, my world opened up. I have always been troubled by the elitist implications of the cost of being an image maker. I worry about the artists who will never get near a gallery or a magazine assignment simply because the financial barrier– without our intervention–is insurmountable. How amazing to have an opportunity to support an organization that disrupts this model. What stories will these young people tell us? What artists will emerge from their ranks? Join the fun and purchase a ticket. 
VIP Cocktail Reception & Event: $250  Event: $125

You are invited to my open studio
My partner and I recently moved into a beautiful loft with a spacious daylight studio in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. We’ve finally finished setting up and now invite you to stop by to see large prints from my recent shows and more.  Wine, cheese, and cruditĂ© will be provided. I also serve up a mean cup of coffee. 

RSVP is required.

OPEN STUDIO
Dec. 10 & 11  Friday and Saturday 1pm-7pm
RSVP:  infoATsophiawallace.com
360 39th Street, Suite 1
Brooklyn, NY 11232
Express Trains: D, N to 36 street
BQE: Exit at 39 St

Sophia Wallace LPA folio
Photograph by Sophia Wallace from the series Truer

Thursday, 2 December 2010

Strange Bedfellows 2 Exhibition Opening Video

 Strange Bedfellows 2 Video

Strange Bedfellows 2 had its opening night on the 2nd November and we made a video of the event for those who could not make it. You can also see the exhibition in our Featured Exhibition space.

Above photographs by Judah Passow & Karan Kapoor

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Gun Of The Black Sun - The Movie

LPA movingPictures Clinches Marketing Deal For DVD Fantasy Thriller 
Gun Of The Black Sun

New promotional viewing platform promotes movie sponsored by iconic motorbike brand Harley-Davidson

Co-stars soccer legend Ian Wright MBE

30 November 2010, London - LPA movingPictures, the London-based promotional viewing platform, has snapped up the deal to promote Gun Of The Black Sun.                               

 Scheduled for release on 3 February 2011 and exclusively on DVD, the €1 million 90-minute fantasy adventure co-stars Ian Wright MBE, ex-England international footballer and Harley-Davidson fan, in his first major film-acting role.

This film is co-produced by its lead actor (and former Playgirl pin-up) Gary Douglas, who has appeared in several Australian TV series and movies. Hollywood veteran Richard Lynch is another co-star. It is directed by Jeff Burr (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, The Stepfather II and Puppet Master 4 and 5).

The plot centres on a ruthless media mogul’s obsession with resurrecting the Third Reich empire and building a new Nazi-indoctrinated Aryan race.

Harley-Davidson is supporting the movie by supplying motorcycle gear and bikes to Douglas and Wright. The company is also endorsing the DVD distribution via marketers of  Harley-Davidson goods, services, events and dealers.

LPA movingPictures is using social-media networks, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and its own film-and-video showcasing website (www.lpa-movingpictures.com) to promote the film.Thereby raising the movie’s profile and creating more distribution opportunities among the international film community.

A consumer campaign on social-media networks will follow to drive sales of the DVD among movie fans.

More details about Gun Of The Black Sun, its distribution strategy, Ian Wright, Gary Douglas, Richard Lynch and the cast and crew are available on www.lpa-movingpictures.com and www.gunoftheblacksun.com.


http://www.lpa-movingpictures.com

Monday, 29 November 2010

The Rory Peck Awards 2010


Rory Peck Awards

LPA's Sebastian Rich narrowly missed out of winning the Rory Peck Awards For News. His film was shot in Marjah Afghanistan in February 2010 entitled Afghanistan Bomb Disposal ,commissioned and Broadcast by NBC News.The awards evening was held at the BFI Southbank and presented by Julie Etchingham and Rageh Omaar.

The Awards was won by Roger Arnold for his film - Red Shirts Protest.
Shot in Thailand, April - May 2010. Commissioned and broadcast by Wall Street Journal.com Roger’s footage is a detailed diary of events in Bangkok during the final week of the anti-government protests in May 2010.  Close, immediate and dramatic, we see the conflict from both the perspective of the protestors’ and the Thai army. Roger is based in Bangkok - the story unfolded on his doorstep, and he was on the streets day and night, filming events as they happened. His footage shows the devastating violence of the protests, and also their tragic results – among the many people injured during the conflict were several of Roger’s journalist friends, one of whom was killed.

The judges thought that this was a "powerful and comprehensive piece of work".  One said: "As you would expect from a photo-journalist, the photography is fantastic. Roger showed initiative and courage; he covered the story from all angles, from all locations - you couldn't ask for more."

Roger Arnold is a freelance photographer, cameraman and journalist who has he has travelled and world including The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, ABC, Paris Match, Der Speigel, Le Figaro, Stern, Financial Times, Cicero, Marie Claire, Elle, Days Japan, Janes Intelligence Review, Penthouse, GQ, Maxim, Amnesty International, International Committee of the Red Cross, The United Nations and many others.
The Rory Peck Award for News honours freelance camerawork in the coverage of a news event where the focus is on the immediacy of the story.  Finalists for this category were Robin Forestier-Walker for Kyrgyzstan Aftermath, and Sebastian Rich for Afghan Bomb Disposal.

About The Rory Peck Awards -
Sponsored by Sony,The Rory Peck Awards is a highly respected international competition that honours excellence in freelance news and current affairs camerawork.  Established in 1995, it is the only awards dedicated to the work of professional freelance cameramen and camerawomen and demonstrates why they are so important to the newsgathering and broadcast industries. Every year the Awards attract international media interest across print, web and television, including annual broadcast.  The Rory Peck Awards ceremony is the main fundraiser for The Rory Peck Trust.

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Julie Cook and Paul Davies went to Reno for Christmas 2004

 Book Launch
Julie Cook and Paul Davies went to Reno for Christmas 2004. Reno ‘The biggest little city’ did not disappoint. Refugee hippies from San Francisco; marvellous bar tenders (the book is dedicated to one of them, a certain Doug Twist) taxi drivers playing BTO steering with their knees; goats in Santa costumes riding in cars; big trucks; fantasy girls; fights; dope; antique markets and seductive, beautiful, dangerous, surviving ‘Americana’ where you nervously watch your back.

Monday 29th November
Blush, Upstairs at the White Horse
64 Shoreditch High Street
London E1
6pm - 9pm

The book documents a Christmas spent in Reno in 2004.
It is a limited edition of 160 copies, 15cm/10cm, 96 pages, colour photography and writing, all signed - £20

There will be wine but no dancing girls upstairs (over 18 venue) dancing girls downstairs.

Julie Cooke was an exhibitor in Strange Bedfellows 2 

Sunday, 21 November 2010

Sue Golden creates artwork for 400 Women exhibition


Sue Golden creates artwork for 400 Women exhibition at Shoreditch Town Hall London EC1

London based artist and curator Sue Golden was invited to participate in a poignant exhibition, a large scale ongoing project highlighting the brutal murders and rapes of more than 400 women.

Most of these murders, that have been going for over a decade in the US border town of Ciudad Juárez Mexico, have never been brought to trial.

Golden was given a small, rough image of Merlin Elizabeth Rodriguez Saenz, aged 16 who was a Cotton Field sex murder victim in April 2000. See her final image above. This exhibition, in partnership with Amnesty International, and has been extended through to Sunday 5 December .

Sue Golden's LPA profile page.

http://400women.tumblr.com

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/events_details.asp?ID=1709

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11735234

Saturday, 20 November 2010

Linda Lieberman Hosts An Open Studio

Linda Lieberman Hosts An Open Studio

Private View
26th November
From 6 - 9p.m.

Open Studio
27th & 28th November 2010
from
10am – 6pm
as part of the
Lambeth Wide Open Studios
Showcasing New Work
Photography & Sculpture
http://www.lambethwideopen.co.uk/space-holder.html

Linda Lieberman at Gallery1839 print sales

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

David Knight shoots 'Uluruff' for Grey Healthcare, Sydney

David Knight shoots 'Uluruff' for Grey Healthcare, Sydney

Australian-based  photographer David Knight shoots the new ad for Bayer Animal
Healthcare. The ad, art directed by Daragh Ledwidge of Grey Healthcare, involved
making a dog lying in the park look at first glance like Uluru in the late afternoon
sunlight. The dog, Francoise, went into training one week prior to the shoot.

Agency: Grey Healthcare-Sydney   Art director: Daragh Ledwigde   Writer: Jay Furby  
Creative Director: Tim Brierley   Production: Chee Productions 
Retouching:Cranky Mermaid

Mexican Photographer Guido Torres Takes 1st Place At IPA


LPA's Mexican Photographer Guido Torres has won a 1st place and 11 honourable mentions at the 2010 International Photography Awards. His 1st place award on the "nature / sunset" category was given to a striking image of the sun over Manhattan and the Honourable Mentions to images within the fine art and architecture categories.

Torres's main subject are People and Architecture and any situation that comes between. Guido says both are eternally linked and this, in terms of photography, gives you endless possibilities.

Recently Guido had an exhibition of large scale photographs depicting Michel Rojkind's selected projects at the Czech Technical University in Prague and is currently working on a series of images about Mexico's bicentenary that will soon be uploaded to hi LPA profile.

All of Guido's winning images can be seen at his LPA profile:

Monday, 1 November 2010

Astrid Schulz Exhibits at Brighton's ‘White Night Festival'




 ‘Food Keeps Body & Soul Together’ - from 28.10 – 14.11.10

After a wonderful opening party for my current exhibition in London, which is showcasing portraits from my colourful portrait series, I am proud to invite you to the solo show during the Brighton Photo Fringe festival.

The private view takes place on Saturday, 30 October 2010, 5.30pm - midnight!
This opening celebration is part of Brighton's famous ‘White Night Festival', which an all-night public artwork event.

Venue: Brighton Media Centre, 15 -17 Middle Street, Brighton BN1 1AL
Opening times: 28.10.10 - 14.11.10, Mondays – Fridays, 9.30 – 5.30 & weekends, 10.30 – 5.30

About the project: 'Food Keeps Body & Soul Together' is bringing together my passion for food and my previous career as a costume designer. Before each image concept was developed, most of the sitters were asked about their favourite food. In other pictures the edible item is telling the viewer something about the sitter’s pastime. The resulting images are humorous, bold and distinctive. You can view more images of this series on my
London Photography Association portfolio.

Please RSVP for the opening party: info@astridschulz.com
or check my blog for details on all my other shows.

With best wishes,
Astrid

Sunday, 31 October 2010

LPA Exhibition 'Strange Bedfellows 2' Opens in Soho

Strange Bedfellows 2

Part two of the acclaimed Strange Bedfellows photography exhibition curated by Sue Golden has its private view on 2nd of November.

All the photographs have been chosen from the fine art, commercial, established and up-and-coming photographers’ collections at the London Photographic Association and Gallery 1839.
Images shown -  Sukey Parnell - Julie Cook

View Strange Bedfellows 2 exhibition on LPA featured exhibition

Exhibiting photographers in part 2
Annett Reimer - Emily Graham - Ginger Liu - Ilya van Marle - George Kavanagh - Sebastian Rich - Karan Kapoor - Judah Passow - Nino Gehrig - Frank Herholdt -Michal Iwanowski - Sue Golden - Sukey Parnell - Julie Cook
 
Strange Bedfellows 2 at:
The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place, Soho, London W1F 0JU
3-19 November 2010 

Strange Bedfellows info - Strange bedfellows 1 featured gallery - Strange Bedfellows 1 opening night video

The Rory Peck Award For News 2010

LPA movingPictures are delighted to confirm that Sebastian Rich has been selected as a finalist for The Rory Peck Award for News for his work on " Afghan Bomb Disposal ".

This Award is part of the prestigious Rory Peck Awards. It honours freelance camerawork of a news event where the focus is on the immediacy of the story: This Award was judged in London on 30 September 2010 by a panel of news professionals.

There are 3 finalists in this category and the name of the winner will be announced at The Rory Peck Awards Ceremony which will take place in central London on 17 November 2010.
Sebastian Rich showreel
Sebastian Rich From Bullets To Ballet
Photography by Sebastian Rich Afghan army Marja Afghanistan

Friday, 22 October 2010

Meet The LPA at Canon Pro Solutions 2010 Event

Come and meet the LPA on stand 14 at Canon Pro Solutions on the 26 - 27 October

David Edmunds and Kevin O'Connor will be on the LPA stand (14) and looking forward to seeing you there.

Kevin will be delivering a seminar on both days at 11:00 am entitled,

Lost in Space?
The importance of marketing yourself in the digital age


So here we are on the digital highway and hey guess what? You can advertise for free. Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, You Tube, all sound great.  But, as many of you will have found out,  the bad news is you have to invest a huge amount of time and effort to make these platforms work for you.

The LPA was set up with the sole objective of helping photographers and filmmakers market themselves and nowadays that means through social networking as well other online and traditional means. The LPA has set up a marketing infrastructure which links all these disparate elements together into one cohesive marketing 'force' . So, come and hear how we at the LPA can make it happen for you.

Register for the event here.


Photography by George Kavanah

Friday, 8 October 2010

Sophia Wallace Opening In London & New York

Gallery Openings In London & New York

Please join me Tuesday, October 12 for the first public viewing of my new series On Beauty. I will be exhibiting 4 large scale photographs as part of a two person show with Julie Fogarty at Leslie/Lohman Gallery in Soho, New York. The show will remain on view through December 8. In this new series I examine the charged nature of beauty in masculinity. There are consequences for boys who are considered too pretty. Though men are lovely, often it is women who are utilized to represent beauty in Western visual culture. Women also stand in for the emotions of sadness, vulnerability, and passivity while idealized masculinity is often represented as a monolith of unwavering strength. But what about the vulnerability of masculinity? What about masculine doubt, receptivity, melancholy? And what of the uniquely masculine aspects of beauty? With these questions, On Beauty began.

OPENING
The Leslie/Lohman Windows
Opening reception: Tuesday, October 12, 6 PM
On view: Tuesday, October 6 - December 8
Leslie/Lohman Gallery
26 Wooster Street,
New York, NY 10013

ON VIEW
group show TASCHEN
On view: Thursday, September 30 – Saturday, October 30
TASCHEN Store New York
107 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012

Strange Bedfellows
On view: Wednesday, October 6 - Friday, October 29
The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place,
Soho, London W1F 0JU

Thursday, 7 October 2010

Sebastian Rich Shoots Ballet In Argentina

From 
Bullets To Ballet
By
Sebastian Rich

Sebastian Rich is a photographer and hard news cameraman and has been working on the front line in war zones for the past three decades.
He has just spent two weeks embedded with the the Julio Bocca Ballet School in Buenos Aires Argentina.

"I am starting to smile behind the camera. Not the perverse smile of the photographer who knows he has got the shot of some one in their quintessential moment of terror in a war zone. But the smile of the photographer who has just captured the most beautiful movement he has ever seen. As I am a lensman and not a pensman I will try and let my pictures tell the story of the dedication and sacrifice of these ballet dancers. I think that’s fair to them and me"

At this point in my new found passion “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”

You can view some of Sebastion's ballet pictures and read the supporting text in his LPA Featured Gallery.

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

LPA Exhibition 'Strange Bedfellows' Opens in Soho


Strange Bedfellows 1 had its private view last night at the Assembly Rooms in Soho London. I think this is one of our best shows to date so huge thanks to the curator Sue Golden.

Images shown - Existing In Costume Chan-Hyo Bae and Tokyo Sphinx Alissa Eberle 

We are in the process of making a short film showing the opening and talking to Sue about her choices and pairings of the photographs.We hope to complete this and have it live next week.



 Meantime here is a taster of the evening

Also thanks to Ruth, Polly and Kat at the Assembly Rooms for making the evening go so smoothly.

Strange Bedfellows 1 & 2 running consecutively at:
The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place, Soho, London W1F 0JU
6-29 October and 3-19 November 2010
Monday to Friday 10-5pm

Friday, 3 September 2010

London Film Festival Opens with Oscar Contender

Never Let Me Go, the movie directed by Mark Romanek and based on the novel by award-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, is to open the 54th BFI London Film Festival (LFF), which takes place 13-28 October.

The film, already being touted as an Oscar contender, is co-produced by DNA Films and Film4, and distributed internationally by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Another Ishiguro book The Remains Of The Day was also the subject of the 1993 Oscar-nominated movie.

The awards theme continues as the LFF announces plans to host its first ever awards ceremony on 28 October.

Among the accolades handed out will be the Best British Newcomer Award, which rewards new and emerging UK film talent and recognises the accomplishments of a new writer, producer or director in his or her first feature at the festival.

Other honours include the Best Film, a new award celebrating "creative, original, imaginative, intelligent and distinctive" filmmaking.

And the festival's most revered tribute is the long-established British Film Institute Fellowship, which goes to individual actors or directors in recognition of their outstanding contribution to film or television. Previous winners include Hollywood legend Bette Davis, Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Altman, and Dame Maggie Smith.

Photography by Agnieszka Zychska

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Landscape & Urbanscape Competition Winners Interviews


The LPA works very hard to promote its members and winning our competitions gives us a chance to give them more good PR. Here are the interviews we held with the winning twelve photographers.

Landscape Single Image Winners

Geoffrey Howe - Gold Interview
Jayne Dennis - silver Interview
Glenn Harper - Bronze Interview

Landscape Series Image Winners

Paul Gorman - Gold Interview
Craig Easton - Silver Interview
Peter Adams - Bronze Interview

Urbanscape Single Image Winners

Nick Alcock - Gold Interview
Drora Bashan - Silver Interview
David Bowman - Bronze Interview

Urbanscape Series Image Winners

Nick Kind - Gold Interview
Ross Andersson - Silver Interview
Burkhard Schittny - Bronze Interview

View the full galleries here,

Landscape single and series

Urbanscape single and series

Ecohealth 2010 Landscape & Urbanscape Exhibition.

An exhibition from the collection of the winners and commended photographers was shown at Ecohealth 2010 through out their three day conference in London. The images were projected in four separate areas around the public spaces and the lecture theatre. Here is the LPA press release that accompanied the exhibition.

The London Photographic Association (LPA), a membership organisation promoting the work and interests of international photographers, photography students and lens-based artists, will be providing a thought-provoking exhibition at Ecohealth 2010. The exhibition will consist of images selected from the LPA's 2010 "Landscape" and "Urbanscape" competitions. LPA Managing Director, Kevin O'Connor, comments on the Association's involvement with Ecohealth 2010.

"The LPA is very pleased to be involved with the Ecohealth 2010 conference and applauds its goals of biodiversity and sustainability," he says. "We live on the most unbelievably beautiful planet and and all need to play our part in looking after it so we can hand it on to future generations. Photographers are a group of people who examine natural beauty, decay and destruction in minute detail and focus on new ways of looking at everyday things.

"It is therefore our hope that the exhibition of images from the LPA's "Landscape" and "Urbanscape" competitions will act as a vivid reminder of the natural beauty of our planet and illustrate man's intervention."

Photograph shown by Glen Harper

Upcoming LPA Photography Exhibition

Artist Sue Golden has curated a photographic art exhibition for LPA/Gallery 1839 opening in Soho, London early October. In this exhibition, called Strange Bedfellows, the tapestry of life is exposed with all its complexities. Here the everyday contrasts with the enigmatic and exceptional, the obvious with the unusual. What’s particular in this presentation is the questions the image groupings provoke - what does a beguiling hybrid feline Tokyo Sphinx cat have to do with a Korean man dressed as a female British noblewoman? Perhaps a commonality of isolated lives…

Strange Bedfellows is a contemporary, eclectic mix of international photographers’ images. Golden has utilised her work experience, artistic perception and a ‘catholic’ eye in choosing a diverse range of images and combinations. Extensive research was undertaken from the sites resulting in a striking conceptual show that relates to the highs and lows of modern times: the contrasts and disparities, the illusions and realities, the unconventional and the ordinary.

All the photographs have been chosen from the fine art, commercial, established and up-and-coming photographers’ collections at the London Photographic Association and Gallery 1839.

Images shown - Existing In Costume Chan-Hyo Bae and Tokyo Sphinx Alissa Eberle

Strange Bedfellows is in 2 parts taking the exhibition/s through to mid November.

This will coincide with the London Art Fairs and East London’s Photomonth Festival.

We will be posting more images from the Strange Bedfellows exhibition over the next month.

Strange Bedfellows 1 & 2 running consecutively at:
The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place, Soho, London W1F 0JU
6-22 October and 27 October-19 November 2010

Sunday, 22 August 2010

Nick Alcock Wins LPA Urbanscape Gold Award

LPA Urbanscape Single Image Winner

Nick Alcock had been working on his ‘World' series for some time (and had already entered a completely different kind of image in our Landscape competition, which was commended). "I suddenly realised this 'World' picture fitted the category of Urbanscape perfectly," he says. " You can’t get more of an urban landscape than an image of London, after all. So, I decided to enter it."

The winning image from our Urbanscape single entry competition was taken from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. "My daughter has recently moved to the town," explains Nick, "and I've become fascinated with the visual vibrancy of the area. The viewpoint I shot from provides a really iconic image of London. You can see everything from the Dome, Canary Wharf and the new Olympic Stadium right across to, and beyond, the Gherkin building."

Nick starts his ‘World’ images by shooting a big panorama (this one was a 12 part stitch). He feels it's important to get this technically and visually as good as possibly. "It’s impossible to make a satisfactory ‘World’ picture without having a sound image to work from," he says. He then spends vast amounts of time in Photoshop producing the final image. "There are literally dozens of visual decisions to make," he says. "There are things you have to leave and come back to the next day with a fresh eye. Sometimes nothing fits and I have to cheat, but my cheats have to remain invisible. It can be quite draining and stressful and sometimes I wonder why I’ve chosen to put myself through the whole process. That’s when I know I need to walk away!

"I’m always surprised how many times a solution comes to me when I’m away from the screen thinking of something else. I also rely heavily on my wonderful A2 Epson printer. I usually print up to 20 tests before I’m happy with the final image."

Nick feels that what makes his winning image so strong is that it's the unfamiliar familiar. "I think it’s the kind of image that’s hard to ignore on many levels," he says. "The amount of detail, the odd glimpse of the river, the on-going building works and, of course, the ‘World’ treatment which gives a new slant on a familiar view."

Nick studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Art where photography was an integral part of the course. He particularly enjoyed the darkroom and processing work. "When Photoshop and digital photography came along, it was like all my dreams had come true," he says. He then worked as an art director at major London Advertising agencies, working with some of the world’s top photographers and retouching studios. "I learnt a tremendous amount from them," he says, "particularly how important it is to really look very hard at things. Nowadays, instead of briefing a retouching studio to produce a hugely expensive 10 part comp, I can do it myself. Thank you, Photoshop."

Nick has now been totally freelance for over 20 years, working on everything from TV commercials to book and web design. Since leaving art school, he has always been involved in his own projects and, in recent years, photography has taken a major role in his creative life. He was recently commissioned to shoot a ‘World’ picture for a country house estate in Sussex. He is keen to shoot more images for his ‘World’ series and says there could be some exciting developments ahead.

"I’ve spent my entire career as a creative," he says. "It can be the most rewarding way to earn a living, but also one of the most stressful. When it all gets a bit much I remember, and gain strength from, the famous Woody Allen quote: 80% of success is showing up."
Nick Alcock LPA Portfolio and Profile Page