- 10 Aug 2011
- Posted by Phil Tragen
Manchester, 6-10pm
Police stand sentinel over a largely deserted, occasionally fortified, reassuringly wet Manchester city centre.
read morePolice stand sentinel over a largely deserted, occasionally fortified, reassuringly wet Manchester city centre.
read moreMark and Linzi married June 18th at St Peter’s Church in Morecambe. Near the church there’s a cliff overlooking Morecambe Bay where there are some ruins, which must be a focal point for anyone getting married there. (Black Sabbath had a shoot there once too.)
read moreWhen the policeman showed up at the end – following reports of a violent assault on a woman and baby – Punch pulling the copper’s trousers down and wailing on him with his own baton actually brought the house down. The parents look on, ill at ease..
read moreDean of Manchester, the Very Reverend Rogers Govender, signs the special condolence book for victims of the Norway massacre.
read moreLocal news stories often aren’t really stories at all. Last week among my jobs were snapping a Zumbathon – a classroom full of sweaty women in leotards, half an hour into their workout and so happy to see me – and a school fun day, which included some tiny people putting their ballet shoes on […]
read moreYou take a picture… The paper prints it on the front page.. A homeless guy uses it to keep his arse off the pavement.
read moreHired a lens for a job where swinging a 70-200 beige thermos flask thing might be a too ostentatious, so I hired a a smaller prime lens – the Canon 135mm f2. Having never used it before I took it to the park and snapped a few portraits of my housemate Tom. Of course I […]
read moreBar scene, and scene on a running track. These are two scenes I shot for an amateur short called ‘The Track’ which found itself cripplingly short of a cinematographer and kit on one of the shooting days -and I stepped in almost by accident. It’s written by Dave Pilling. directed by his brother Steve, and […]
read moreBack in April I posted this update (clever HTMLing there) about Ksenija – a classical accordionist I photographed in central London, to get some portraits for her album sleeve. A few copies of the album arrived in the post today – here’s what it looks like.
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