Just me a dark room, a calibrated monitor and a wacom tablet for the next 2 weeks. I can’t wait to  release the final project after showing an early selection to editors in New York last week.  Feels ironic despotting eerie snowscapes on a hot summer day..

Back from LOOKbetween and NYC brimming with new ideas and energy.  A HUGE thanks to all the organisers and sponsors of the festival but also the photographers present. Mostly “emergent” it was so, so refreshing to spend time with other shooters with diverse projects and infinite commitment, not a moan in site. None of us have ever experienced huge editorial assignments or creative budgets but in the new photographic economy  new ideas, approaches can make it happen.  Buckets of American hospitality, incredible slideshows, Scotch Whisky, BBQ and a swimming lake didn’t hurt either!

You are invited to the “Summer In The City” group show at The Little Black Gallery. A curated group show featuring 4 photographers; Alistair Taylor-Young, Nick Cobbing, Karen Grainger and myself from Tues 8th June. It will be my first showing of “Tarbet Isle” alongside “The Dishes” both at the 80cm editions.

I’m heading to New York on Thursday to show my Madagascar multimedia piece (coming soon!) at Look-3 photography festival. This represents my first journey into multimedia that is rapidly reshaping the industry. So, what better timing than my friends at Rhubarb hosting “Photography Still Moving” and a chance to see how to do it properly at a seminar on multimedia story-telling.

I’m back up in Scotland for the final stretch of “The Renewables Project” and am looking forward to getting all my negatives back from the lab next week.  In the meantime some great news from across The Atlantic as the prestigious New York Times ran a very well researched article on the tragedy in Malagasi forests.  The story was front page with one of my image illustrating a camp below.

I was also pleased to see an image from the same project was recognised as a finalist in the NYPH Awards 2010.  In Canada a big congratulations to everyone selected for Flash Forwards 2010 – more on this next week when the details come through of the festival in Toronto.

As part of the LIDF film festival I was selected to participate in a Magnum Workshop led by Donovan Wylie who shot the incredible Maze project, nominated for the Deutsche Borse Prize this year.  Wishing to continue an environmental theme I spent the 4 days of the workshop exploring waste and its management in and around London.  Far from a completed project these images represents ideas that have been cooking for some time and I hope will eventually become a larger project.