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Bizarre Ball-The best party I have ever been to!

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Posted in Uncategorized on at 12:53 pm

It was easily the best night I’ve been to. I can’t think of anything that works as well as that. I’ll be honest I’m not much of a night owl but what was so cool about Friday is how great the people were, how good the acts were and most of all how nice it was to meet the readers of the magazine I help put together every month.
I’m sorry that I didn’t have any syringe pens on me so any readers who asked, just drop me an email to tom_broadbent@dennis.co.uk and I’ll post some out.
I found myself on the first floor oh about 11 or 12, can’t really remember the time as the whole night seemed to meld into one. On one side were the furries, dancing next to them were some steampunks, then latex girls, some seriously pierced dudes and all almighty queue to get your arse whipped in the domination corner…

This sums it up really. ( Photo by Zen Inoya)

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My 400D and me!

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Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2008 at 4:55 pm

Recently I got my grubby little mitts on the simply superb Canon 400D along with a sexy little number, the speedlite 430EX flashgun. I’ve been using it to shoot mainly stuff for the magazine and I’m not talking about the odd collection of skulls that one of my colleagues may have left out for people to admire. (Thank you Dr Blackthorn) Here’s one anyway:

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Dispatches

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Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 at 11:16 am

I met the editor of this magazine last year at the biggest photo-journalism festival in the world, the Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France.

http://www.rethink-dispatches.com

At the time it was still a work in progress and now they’re ready to launch, it’s probably the most unique photo magazine in the world.

Why’s that you ask?

Well they do one photo story per issue, over an unbelievable 80 pages and get this the launch issue story is totally black and white. It’s like going back to the days of Reportage, the A3 size bad boy. Published on a wing and prayer by Colin Jacobson back in the 90’s. You can still buy copies here,

http://www.amazon.com/Reportage-International-Photojournalism-Colin-Jacobson/dp/B000YYVVWS

Anyway getting back to Dispatches, we ran one of the photographer’s images back in the early days of Bizarre, 1999 although the image was taken at a travelling circus in 1975. The shooter is Antonin Kratochvil. I’m sure some of you remember this image. ( I’ve had to drop in the page from our catch-up of the best of Bizarre, February 2006)

Dispatches will have a single theme every month and this launch issue is ‘In America” and it looks like they’ve sent Antonin on an assignment to capture some of the soul of America. Personally I would have sent someone like Robert Huber who captures the weird and wonderful and best of all it would have been in bright vivid colour.
Robert did a story with a fellow photographer Stephan Vanfleteren called ‘Elvis and Presley’ where they both dressed as Elvis Presley and started from either side of the US putting together a brilliant photo story as they went, meeting in the middle.

Find Robert at:

http://roberthuber.lookatonline.com

Getting sidetracked slightly but have a look at the magazine here and order a subscription, support these guys.

http://www.rethink-dispatches.com

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World Press Photos

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There’s no doubt that the highest echelon of accolades that you can achieve as a photographer is for your work to be accepted and win prizes at the World Press Photo Award.
Every year there are approximately 100 000 entries into this free competition from photographers all over the world. Two teams of judges undertake the largest edit of images probably they’ve ever seen. The first team knock it down from the 100k to around 20 000 images and then the second team come in and get it down to the pictures presented to the world through the touring exhibition and book.

This year the organisers have launched a really cool website with mini interviews from photographers explaining how they captured their winning images, check out how Platon got the winning image of Puton, the russian president. It’s fascinating.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/images/stories/videos/Interviews/index.php?

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