Festival organisers DanceXchange delivered an epic festival of dance across Birmingham and the West Midlands, featuring a number of innovative outdoor dance events that provoked and excited new audiences.

It was also the first time I’d really pushed shooting video on the Canon 5DMKII so was delighted when I heard a chunk of the footage was featured on BBC 4 documentary ‘The Most Incredible Thing About Contemporary Dance’.

It’s a fantastic doc in which presenter and orchestral conductor Charles Hazelwood gives a lovely insight into the world of contemporary dance. With key interviews from director of DanceXchange David Massingham and a montage of my IDFB footage during the opening gambit and then again around 50mins into the piece.

It was originally broadcast on BBC 4 last week but you can still go catch it on iPlayer until the end of this week! Inspiring, insightful, well worth a watch!

I love simple ideas and The Burning House project asks the simple question - “What personal belongings would you take with you if your house was on fire?”

The photographed responses of these items make for some interesting viewing…

Thankfully I’m back home now and happy to blog an Irish related post on a new music video from The Rubber Bandits - for their latest single ‘Horse Outside’.

I’ve seen these chaps live before and their new video is incredible! Please note if you’re easily offended I’d give this one a miss…

Enjoy and Happy Christmas!

I was only commissioned to shoot the London leg of the project. You can see a few of my stills featured on the Let’s Colour gallery and a few of my favourite shots below…

It’s the first time I’ve been able to create the video first to then pass on to a sound designer to do their thing. Really impressed with the great work of sound designer and composer Lewis Gibson!

The show uses three items of bespoke designer maker jewelery from which it draws thematic narratives, as an audience member you experience this by yourself with the performers leading you around and immersing you into the story of your chosen piece. Treasured runs at the newly refurbished MAC from 9th - 27th June!

Just spotted the new Lomo 360 Spinner camera! Pull the cord for some panoramic madness! I want one of these! Check out the techniques especially the timescan technique, reminds me a lot of the work of photographer Jonathan Shaw, who experiments with time and motion in his practice.

Nancy Elizabeth - Feet Of Courage from Leaf Label on Vimeo.

One of the best music videos I’ve seen in a long time… Huge congrats to Ben and his talented crew for pulling off such a great piece…

The Art of Photography Show 2009 is a world-class international exhibition featuring all forms of photographic art. This year they received over 16,000 entries from 57 countries, 111 pieces were chosen for the final exhibition and my image of Franz Joseph Glacier was one of them! The selection was made by Charlotte Cotton, curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Cotton was previously curator of photographs at the Victoria & Albert museum and head of programming at The Photographers Gallery.

It feels a great achievment to have my work selected by a leading authority on photography today, especially from such a vast amount of entries! The show opens in just a few hours at the Lyceum Theatre Gallery next to Horton Plaza, Gaslamp quarter, downtown San Diego. It runs for two months until 1st November. So if you’re around this part of the world then go take a visit!

I’m off now to get ready for the opening… Exciting! 

I interviewed Reverend Billy and documented this important, powerful and at times hilarious performance which can now be seen on the Ikon site…

Go get converted!

The current Joyful Bewilderment exhibition at Here Gallery in Bristol has been receiving some local press attention from Venue magazine. I was delighted they decided to use my piece to represent the show… Brilliant that they chose a photographic work as the show mainly consists of illustration… So extra special to be featured!

As they say it’s a corker of an exhibition.. so if you’re in Bristol get to the Here Gallery and have a gander! 

You can now see all the print submissions from the night on the Synth Eastwood site, plus if you look down at video of the night below and scroll to 0:51 you should see me having a banter about my work…

Penone is an incredibly important and influential artist, his work linked to nature and how we interact with our environment, it raises many questions and often challenges conventional notions of art.

I recommend giving the documentary a watch and taking a trip to the Ikon before the show closes on 19th July.