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Passport…A travel essential

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:15:15 +0000

Huge thanks to Trent at Passport for providing this haul of sunnies and coin pouches. Our hope is to hand these out to people we meet on our 5000km journey through India and Nepal on a tuk-tuk as part of the Rickshaw Run in September. Cheers man!

Ron Mueck & Brisbane

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:08:43 +0000

a bit more film.

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:12:49 +0000

just a few from the first couple of rolls I’ve put through a recent purchase that turned out to be rather riddled with fungus….fun.

it’s been a while…

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:01:00 +0000

since I’ve taken any photos with 35mm film, or any film for that matter. Ever since I first got a digital camera I thought that would be all I’d ever need and that my days with film were done. I was very, very wrong.

In recent months I’ve been drawn back to film in a big way. Partly due to the fact that a lot of the work that I admire is shot on film, but more so because I’ve become very lazy with digital. It’s rare that I get a picture that I’m truly happy with as it’s just too easy to take a dozen photos of the same thing without really thinking what I’m doing. And because of this my camera isn’t always with me, as it should be. I’ve missed the excitement, anticipation and challenge of not knowing how things are going to turn out.

When I first fell in love with photography, I took my time with it. I thought a lot about what I was doing and I knew next to nothing about it at the time which made me think that much harder. I took thousands of shit photos so was ecstatic when I took one I could be proud of.

The following are from the first roll of film I put through a little Mirage 35 EE, which seems to be a knock off of a Chinon 35 EE, which in turn seems to be a knock off of the Konica C 35. I picked it up on Portabello Markets in London when I was there in June for my brother’s wedding. The guy was asking a tenner for it, I got him down to £5 by pointing out how filthy it was – it looked like someone had been keeping it in their tobacco pouch for the last 20 years. It’s been with me every day on the walk to and from work, where most of these were taken.

Whilst I’m not particularly proud of any of the photos that I’ve ended up with, the excitement of shooting on film is just as tasty as it was when I got my first roll developed over a decade ago.

a walk around goma…

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:36:21 +0000

The other day, my roomate Toby and I had a wander around GOMA to check out the ’6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’. It was awesome.

Getting ready for Manila.

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:25:46 +0000

On Sunday I will be joining 6 other guys from Quest, heading up to Manila to assist with the relief efforts going on in the wake of the typhoon Ketsana which hit the capital last weekend, causing nearly 300 deaths. All over the country donation drives have been organised for the victims and Quest is doing one of their own, collecting clothing and blankets which Philippine Airlines are shipping up to Manila for free.

So today Kuya Dan and I raided the stockpiles of donations that Mercy in Action has received from the UK, boxing up loads of clothes and blankets as well as shoes, baby bottles and a bag of dodgy spectacles from the 80′s – hey every little bit helps right?

: Dan didn’t require an awful lot of convincing to don this little number.

: Our mascots for the day.

: We managed to fill 4 decent sized boxes and 3 big rice sacks with stuff.

: One of the dozen or so kids we saw running around pinging each other with bb guns on the way home.

Whilst we are there I am also hoping to be able to get some photographs of the situation. We will be in Manila from Sunday until Friday so I will do my best to get online and put some photos up. Unfortunately there is another typhoon, ‘Parma’, on the way towards Luzon so who knows how the trip will pan out. All I know is that it will undoubtedly be a very interesting, very moving and very wet experience.

Welcome to The Red Horse

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:44:02 +0000

Welcome to The Red Horse. I am going to do my best to get new photos up at least every couple of days. Let’s get started…