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Showing posts with label Excellence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Excellence. Show all posts

Thursday, August 4, 2011

The Temporality of Excellence



After an 8 hour editing session all through Saturday night, Sunday found me at Photophilia 2, an invite-only shooting event for models, stylist and clothes designers who otherwise might have trouble getting all the people and props in the same place at the same time.










Monday and Tuesday, I found myself in Norfolk.







Wednesday starts with a shoot with Margarita Zafrilla Olayo, a Spanish dancer. We have three locations - Canary Wharf, Wood Green High Street, and Hampstead Heath. I'm enjoying working with dancers and hope to arrange more shoots like this, combining my knowledge of fashion lighting with live performance photography.









Afterwards I was off to the Roundhouse for the Dice Club Emerging Proms. Although I got there too late for Stavin' Chains, I saw my band-of-the-year Wild Palms, and Infinity, a one-off group made of members of S.C.U.M., Ipso Facto, Proxy Music and Bo Ningen.







Thursday started with a portrait of Tariq Goddard, for Le Cool.



Afterwards I was off to A Rebours







Friday was the last TransKabaret Maxximus; a transvestite performance night put on by the excellent Ryan Styles and Johnny Woo, at Resistance Gallery. I'm glad to have been to them all.





Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Random Excellence

Purple Day


Damaged

A comment from Nitsa the other day reminded me to revisit her site, nonphotography.com. There is also a book. Nitsa's non-photography non-rule rules:

no special gear (too heavy).
no instruction books (too boring).
no calculations (too calculated).

Nitsa, Self-portrait

Her work has been on CD covers and in movies, featured on the web, in newspapers, on T.V., and in many magazines and now—giving her the recongition she deserves, at last, whew—here on T.O.P.'s Random Excellence. (I kid.)

Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTON

Tuesday, August 2, 2011