BIRTH OF THE COOL

park lane special

excellent session recently with olivia - a good friend who is also a photographer + model, so understands why i ask her to stand in strange positions, holding her chin...).
very tamara de lempicka - art deco colouring and film noire lighting, maybe with a little bit of edward hopper drama - and my favourite deco colour scheme of green+black....

and finally, Helen Highwater in a Bridget Bardot pose - again good colours... sometimes the image works in colour, and sometimes the image is better in black+white(as above)... i blame going to see the serge gainsbourg bio film, for inspiring this pose!

Pat Rhoden - Boogie On Reggae Woman

 

photo by olivia and some heavy post-processing by me.

the hoochie koochie man

time to put money where mouth is, sort of.
here's a photos of me modelling by Miss O. which is for once, the other way around, as i've been taking shots of her recently in "studio eightball"
she took the photo below back september 2005 , in relation to the music project i was working on with H.

this was taken in the now gone paradise subway, which was on paradise street, an aptly named short piece of sh*t between victoria square and the inner ring road.
i used to work in an office in paradise street, my first proper job, in a bank aptly enough, where at one point i was dealing with £2million a day whilst living in a scummy bedsit which looked like something out of a kitchensink drama - and a few doors up is snobs nightclub where i used to go and make a fool of myself back in the early 90's...
i remember nothing about the bankjob, except that i wore some 50's inspired trousers, that look a lot like the ones that tarantula clothing now sell.
here's me modelling on the same page as the very famous bernie dexter and the very creative sweetness, who runs a magazine and is also someone i know from flickr photostreams(where our paths crossed).