laura braun

I'm moving ...

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:32:00 +0000

I will be closing this blog, - to keep up with my news please keep an eye on my tumblr at: laurabraunphoto.tumblr.com

The Shoemakery

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:18:00 +0000

I recently took some photos for my friend Maria of her "Shoemakery", a mobile workshop where she produces her customisable, perfectly fitting shoes. Have a look:

http://www.theshoemakery.com

David

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:05:00 +0000

Chloe Lonsdale for The Telegraph

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:23:00 +0000

I photographed Chloe Lonsdale in her West London kitchen for The Telegraph Magazine a little while ago.

Early morning in Wales

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:57:00 +0000

Last week travelling to an assignment a beautiful morning surprised me.

Some recent tear sheets

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:06:00 +0000

Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster for The Telegraph.

Sophie Grabol and Rona Munro also for The Telegraph.

A Streetcar Named Desire

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:57:00 +0000

Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster are going to be in a new production of Tennesse William's play A Streetcar Named Desire at The Young Vic in London from next week. http://www.youngvic.org/whats-on/a-streetcar-named-desire
I photographed Gillan and Ben for The Telegraph.

A picture of me

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:12:00 +0000

I was out in Notting hill on a job last week when I spotted this scene:

I signalled to the girl who was drawing in the window to ask her if it was okay for me to photograph her. She nodded and started drawing something new underneath the design she had been working on:

Soon it became clear...

...that she was drawing me taking pictures of her.

Me with a camera instead of a face.:) A really lovely moment. Thanks Pip. (I went in and spoke to her)

Day of the Triffids

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Sun, 18 May 2014 14:01:00 +0000

Last week I helped my friends Kila & Rusharc with a photoshoot in a greenhouse for Carnivorous plants. I drove them to Hampshire Carnivorous Plants near Southampton and while they did their elaborate still life set ups among the insect eaters I entertaine myself by taking some polaroids. Most of these plants we were told originate from the southern United States and need heat and humidity. It's very hot and sticky in those greenhouses!

Kila & Rusharc at work.

James Joyce, Tommaso del Buono and Salih Adalier

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Tue, 13 May 2014 18:06:00 +0000

In April I photographed the artist James Joyce for the online edition of Hole & Corner Magazine at his studio in Shoreditch.
You can find the full article here: www.holeandcornermagazine.com

A few weeks back I also photographed the garden designer Tommaso del Buono at home in London for the Telegraph Magazine's "The World of..." section. The story will be published in this Saturday's edition of the magazine, ahead of the opening of the Chelsea Flower Show, where Tommaso designed this years Telegraph garden.

But for me the most interesting has been making a short portrait film about photographer Salih Adalier together with David San Millán del Río. I have known Salih for a number of years and this January, knowing he was about to sell the building that houses his studio, David and I decided to go back to capture it on film before it was too late.
The film was commissioned by Accent Magazine and Issue 5, featuring our film is now online:
www.accent-magazine.com

California

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:07:00 +0000

Here are some of my photos from a recent trip to California.

After many many years: Downtown L.A. again.

Much has changed there in the nine years since I last was in L.A. but some thing, like this shop window are still much the same.

One morning in the hill on the way to Santa Barbara.

Castroville, just south of Santa Cruz is the world capital of artichokes apparently. The artichoke festival with floats and an Artichoke Queen is in May. I'd love to come back for that some time.

The Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco mist.

Hove portraits

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:34:00 +0000

On a commission last week in Hove I took these portraits of people working in and running local businesses. Victorija Marinova works at Lala's Café, CaroleAnn Podes and her dog Misty opened The Restoratin Rooms about a year ago, Julian Pelling has been running his record shop Fine Records for much longer and Dan Morrison is a barman at The Foragers pub.

Please join us for a conversation about my recently published book Métier, Small Businesses in London

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:28:00 +0000

I will be in conversation with Dawn Lyon and Karen McQuaid
at
X Marks the Bökship
210 / Unit 3 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9NQ
Thursday 30. Jan, 7pm
http://www.bokship.org

Métier, small businesses in London, is a book by photographer Laura Braun about small-scale independent and specialist businesses in London and the people who run them. In a time when the high-streets of London are taking on a more and more corporate character, this book about independent traders offers an unusual and interesting perspective on this city and an insight into the working lives of people who strongly identify with their occupation. Over 6 years Laura Braun slowly added to this collection of portraits and interior photographs of very individual London businesses. Her subjects are people with fascinating lives shaped by their longterm involvement with their line of work and business. The spaces they work in reveal interesting details about the persons inhabiting them and the work they do.
Laura will be talking to sociologist Dawn Lyon and photography curator Karen McQuaid about the project the making of the book.
Métier, Small businesses in London was published by Paper Tigers Books in 2013.

Richard Deacon for The Telegraph

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:42:00 +0000

Sculptor Richard Deacon's retrospective show at Tate Britain opens on February 5th. A couple of weeks ago I photographed him for The Telegraph. You will recognise the setting of this picture from my previous post: Emily and the invisible chair.

Here is a link to the Telegraph article online:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/10579803/Richard-Deacon-interview-twisting-chaos-into-shape.html

Emily and the invisible chair

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:00:00 +0000

I did a job for the Sunday Telegraph Magazine last week. Here's my assistant for the day, lovely Emily, sitting on thin air.

Now available online

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 14:47:00 +0000

My book Métier, Small businesses in London can now be bought online through the Paper Tigers Books website:
http://www.papertigersbooks.com/index.php?/coming-soon/metier/

Métier launch at TPG

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:06:00 +0000

The launch of MÉTIER was this week at The Photographer's Gallery Bookshop.
It was a lovely lovely night. I was particularly happy that a few of the poeple I photographed for the book made it to the launch. Here I am talking to Lorenzo Marioni of the closed down New Piccadilly Café, Gary Arber of W.A Arber and Co., printer and stationer in Bow and Klaus Kalde, black and white photographic printer with his daughter.

Thank you to everyone who came!

Photos by Kristian Buus.

Métier on Hole & Corner

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:26:00 +0000

Over the next few weeks Hole & Corner Magazine is publishing a few of the stories from Métier on their site. So to have a sneak peak of what's to come have a look here:

http://www.holeandcornermagazine.com/notes/w-f-arber-co-ltd.html

Please join us at The Book Launch for MÉTIER on December 3rd.

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:18:00 +0000

MÉTIER, Small Businesses in London, Book Launch and Signing
The Photographers' Gallery Bookshop
16 - 18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW
3 December 2013, 18.00-20.00
Free event, no booking

The book will be avaulable in selected Bookshops and via the Paper Tigers Books Website from Dec 3rd. www.papertigersbooks.com

Métier, is about small-scale independent and specialist businesses in the capital and the people who run them. Over six years, Laura Braun slowly added to this collection of portraits and interior photographs of very individual London businesses. In a time when the high streets of London are taking on a more and more corporate character, this book offers an unusual and interesting perspective on the city and an insight into the working lives of people who strongly identify with their occupation.

Métier contains photographs of 26 people and their places of work, accompanied by a short text about each person and business and an afterword by sociologist Dawn Lyon.

New book - pre-order to raise funds for production

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 18:58:00 +0000

Some of you will know that over the last 6 years I have been slowly working on a project about small-scale, independent, specialist businesses and the people who run them here in London. It has been a labour of love, a truly personal project, which I added to slowly whenever I came across another person or business that made me curious and which I wanted to let people know about.
Now I am working on putting this project together as a book to be published via Paper Tigers Books in December. But making books is expensive and so I would like to ask for your help.
I have started a crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo where you can essentially order the book in advance helping me raise the funds to produce it. If you want to contribute a little more you can also order a limited edition print of one of the photographs from the project or a book and a print together.
Please have a look at the campaign here, and at the facebook page here, support it and spread the word!

Camera Obscura image capture at The Photographers' Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:29:00 +0000

This Sunday from 1 - 3 pm I will be working with the public to capture the image projected by The Photographers' Gallery's camera obscura. The event is part of The Photographers' Gallery's summer faire.

http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/camera-obscura-capturing-the-image

London's small specialist businesses. A few more and book soon...

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:42:00 +0000

Over the last six years have been working on a project about small scale, specalist businesses and their owners in London. Finally this year I will draw the project to a close and publish it as a book. In April I went and photohraphed and talked to a few more people to complete the project. Here is a glimpse of those last additions ... more news on the book soon.

Rob Court, neon sign maker, in his shop in Leyton.
http://www.creativeneon.co.uk/

Carmel Said, set artist, in his studio in Wembley.

Klaus Kalde, black and white photographic printer, in his darkroom in Haggerston.
http://www.klausottokalde.com/

Fish Tales

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:43:00 +0000

I watched a documentary from 1999 on bbc iplayer last night about Billingsgate fish market. I recognised some of the characters from when i spent a week there taking pictures a couple of years ago, - especially Mr. Barton, who in 2011 had changed his Indiana Jones hat for a straw hat and had seemed to have given up the fight against the white coat. He was however otherwise much the same in 2011 as he appears to have been in 1999.
You can watch the film here

Two talks and an exhibition

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:24:00 +0000

Tomorrow morning I will be heading to Cromer in Norfolk to give a talk about my printmaking and bookmaking work at Cromer Public Library. Looking forward to the talk as well as the day out!

On the 10th of June I will be talking at You can now take pictures, organised by YCN at Shoreditch House. I will be discussing my personal as well as my commercial work. Also talking will be photographer Luke Stephenson, stylist Anna Lomax and image collection professional Rebecca Swift.

From 6 - 27 June prints from my project The Weather will be exhibited as part of the group show Adrift - The Unfamiliar Familiar in Modern Society at Galerie Ruberl in Vienna.
Exhibition Reception: June 6 at 5pm.
Location: Galerie Ruberl, Himmelpfortgasse 11, A - 1010 Wien.
Gallery Opening Times: Mo - Fr 11-6pm, Sat 10am-1pm and by appointment.

A small book of this project with a text by Susana Moreira Marques, published by The Velvet Cell and Gasket on the occasion of the first time Adrift was shown in London last year, is available from The Velvet Cell's website.

KL Photo Awards

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:32:00 +0000

I'm very pleased that my portrait of my friend Paul-Dominic De Grande is a finalist in in this year's Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards. You can view a gallery of all the finalists here.