Beng

These are some of the images I shot for Kam's pitch for his film script Beng. The script is set in Robin Hood Gardens, a council estate near where I used to live and its a look into the life of a Bengali family living on the estate. Hopefully London Film are going to give him some money to film his story.

So these are some of the images that the band Detachments picked from the shoot I did last friday. I was quite pleased with this shoot, mainly because the images didnt actually require much retouching, just a little bit of colour work, and sort of came out how I imagined them beforehand. The weather turned out perfectly, and the sun at the end of the day was brilliant. The first image I posted earlier this week was shot on the same piece of land that I shot my old image of the guy with no hands in a warehouse. That warehouse is gone now, and its just a really run down, overgrown bit of wasteland by the thames. The warmer images are the ones I shot when the low sun came out, I think I like them best.

I think i'm going to pick different images from the ones the band decided on, I think we're both looking for slightly different things, but its always interesting to know what pictures the client is going to choose. I do really like the image where Sebastien the lead singer has his arms out to the sides though. I asked him to imagine he was Nicolas Anelka celebrating a goal (pretentious of me I know), I think he got the cocky, confident look I wanted really well. Adding this to the desolate, cold landscape, I think the pic definitely reflects the groups music.

Detatchments

Been very busy recently, got numerous things lined up since I finished the book, on Friday I shot some publicity shots for the band Detatchments. You can have a listen to their stuff here

http://www.myspace.com/detachments

I'm in the process of working out final images, but heres one for now.

Mum and Dad battering one another

My Mum and Dad came to stay with me and Nicole this weekend, and we had a lot of fun playing the Wii after a few glasses of wine. If you told someone 10 years ago that there were tears in your eyes as you watched your parents try to batter the living daylights out of one another they would have probably directed you to social services. These days this is a happy, good bit of family quality time. Check out Bailey going mental because he cant understand whats happening.




The next video shows Mum finally knocking Dad out, I loved Dads reaction! For the record, (and so I dont get a clip round the ear) while Mum was better at the competitive games, Dad was a lot better at the balance games, and showed a suprising natural aptitude for the skiing games.