Sorry all, website looking a bit dusty!  The best excuse has been a hectic schedule that mixing editorial commissions (which I can’t share yet), some juicy commercial commissions and long-awaited TV scheduling. I’m in the studio for the next few weeks grooming all of my juicy new content, web-folios and a newsletter but in the mean-time here are two of my favourite bits:

Madagascar, Lemur and Spies.

I first met the inspiring Steve Greenwood and Tuppence Stone of the BBC in 2010 when my Madagascar adventures were in their infancy. Subsequently they have produced/directed an amazing feature length documentary, featuring none of than David Attenborough on the microphone, a chunk of my undercover footage and work with the Environment Investigation Agency. Angela Maddick edited John Brown’s camera work. The program is currently on iplayer and also some behind the scenes clips illustrating the 3 differing trips. I am proud as punch to have been involved in the project and am grateful to the production team for bringing this story to bear on the audience potential of the BBC at prime time!

O2 Guru TV Inspire: Sony Xperia S Photography Challenge

02 and Sony have just released a Youtube Video of a 3 day challenge I was set across the South-East. It was a testing schedule taking in some breathtaking locations and we lucked out on the weather. Although I was in simultaneously in-front and behind the lens I give credit to the agency, VCCP, the crew of James and Ashley, Art Directing Richard and all the crew we met along the way who are helping us get 100K youtube hits and counting, gulp!

This February, we will open our doors for Sample 12, theprintspace’s fifth annual group show. The exhibition showcases a cross-section of images by photographers who have printed at theprintspace in 2011. The annual group shows are known for showcasing young and fresh work from photographers such as Alan Powdrill, Roberta Ridolfi, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Rupert Nightingale and many more.

Sample 12 was compiled by award-winning reportage photographer Toby Smith. Now we are excited to present outstanding works by professional and amateur photographers including Oscar Rodriguez, Bernat Millet, Maria Konstanse Bruun, Philip Clarke Hill, Olivier Hess and many more.

Sample 12 opens at theprintspace gallery at 74 Kingsland Road on Thursday, 2nd February from 7pm-9:30pm with drinks provided. The exhibition then continues from 3rd to 28th February Monday-Friday 9am-7pm. Admission free!

Firstly I have to say a HUGE thank-you to everyone who has supported me professionally and personally this year. It’s seen some big changes and growth to my career and photography.

Roof Unit, the new shared studio resource in Roman Road was born and has grown from strength to strength. It is now busting at the seams with 18 amazingly talented photographers who I am proud to call both colleagues and friends. The mutual support from the ‘Uniteers’ is our biggest asset and is something I couldn’t build from timber.  We are all grateful to Alexa and Tim who’s input and dedication has pulled it all together.

I’m pleased to be working even closer with the “Reportage by Getty” team as we move in on more corporate and commercial clients to compliment a pure editorial output. Some of the highlights include a creative shoot from the roof of Somerset House with Burke McCarron and a recent assignment from National Geographic to be published in February.

Sitting here getting ready for Christmas with my family is a stark contrast to the insects and rice rations of the Peruvian Rainforest. The final photographic ‘present’ of the year was scoring the cover of British Journal of Photography for the January issue.

I hope you are as excited about 2012 as I am.  New projects, destinations and partners are in the pipeline but the economic down-turn and the Olympics are not.

No apologies for this recent blog-silence as shock-horror we took a 2 week holiday in October! A panicked finish to the camper conversion for the new/old  Toyota Expedition  Truck heralds a return to more time behind the lens whatever the location or weather.  A huge thankyou to Alexa’s folks for the use of their yard  before we could set off to christen “The Monster” with 2 weeks down the West Coast of Ireland. The landscape and people on the Emerald Isle exceeded their reputation and hopefully the big-bag of 6×7 film will do it justice. Waking up to breakfast on Inch Beach was a highlight and more on these landscapes when the film is scanned. Our new Imacon X-5 was recently profiled with Roof Unit on the Hasselblad News Page. 

After only 2 days turnaround I found myself heading up the Amazon Basin with my friends at The Environment Investigation Agency. With legal sensitivity and methods echoing the Madagascar Project we can’t reveal much at this stage. However, I can guarantee a  healthy mix of documentation, investigative, GPS points and evidential work to send major shockwaves at Illegal Logging in Peru. The bugs, snakes, swamps, and endless days of trail-clearing in a such a remote and unforgiving landscape was a serious test of the team and equipment but thankfully the only major casuality was a 5d body and my ability to eat oatmeal or crackers ever again.

It’s a pleasure to write this blog in transit from Houston airport after seeing an article profiling my work and methodology on the NYT lens-blog. Thanks to Jim Estrin for his time in Perpignan and on the phone researching the article. I arrive back  to London on Monday for a curious commission for National Geographic which serves as the perfect distraction from the bug bites, scrapes and blisters.

Just disembarked from the long train home from Perpignan Photojournalism festival in France. Had a productive and blurry 5 days of drinking, soaking up the exhibitions and importantly spending quality time with Reportage by Getty and discussions with magazine editors. You NEED to see Peter Dench’s fist-biting video diary of the festival courtesy of Hungry-Eye Magazine.

My first job when back was editing the Frontline’s recording of our panel, China’s New Energy Pioneers,  for distribution. It has been sliced down to 15 minutes from the original 90 and embedded above. Really happy with how the presentation went and thanks to Jim Footner from Greenpeace for his contributions and questions.