Metal

Photos by me, masks by Keko Hainswheeler and necklace from Mavi Power Staiano.

I am somewhat taken by theses.

DR

Photo by me, Styled by Linda Portman Sagum, hair by KIYO and make-up by Mia Yang

Whenever I have done something entirely awful in the darkroom I become unbearable.
This is, as it stands, more often than not. This is, because I now spend more time in there than anywhere else.
I have had a darkroom since I was very young and still, I learn everyday that I will make new and very annoying mistakes.
I suppose what I am saying only really applies to the photographic darkroom geeks like myself but here is a list of the idiotic things I have done in the darkroom just this week alone.

1.
Whilst shooting for a fashion magazine about 2 days ago I decided to do half the shoot nude and the other half with a stylist the magazine had designated. I developed one half at about 3 in the morning that night after a very long and tiring day of shooting and hung them out to dry. The next batch I developed at about 4 in the morning, somehow I poured fixer on first and developer on next. Needless to say the second batch where unusable. I was furious and tired so I went to bed when I woke up I looked at the negs that did come out and they were all nude. So the only images I had for the fashion magazine where nude!
2.
My day started with a model not turning up for the shoot so I sent my team home and I decided to develop my film from the shoot a day before (I should add that a model not showing up is one of the single most aggravating feelings a fashion team can experience). The shoot from the day before had been for a relativly big magazine so I had to make it count. I loaded the film (I have those large bulk film tanks) and I poured in the developer, all was fine apart from the fact that I was talking to the stylist on the phone so when the buzzer rang for my chemical change I poured out the developer and filled the tank with water(its the same as using stop don’t let anyone tell you otherwise) and tipped it out thinking that I had already added fixer (I had not) I then unscrewed the lids to see white film glaring at me. It took me a second to realise what had happened, I dropped the phone screwed the lids back on and threw in the fixer. Luckily they were ok.
3.
After running out of room to hang many many rolls of film I had started to sew them onto hangers and let them dry over night, I woke up to find several conjoined together in the morning.

I suppose film isn’t the most reliable source for an industry like fashion. But I would have it no other way.

Please do share your darkroom related horror stories, they may well make me feel better.

Litanies

Photo by me, Styled by Linda Portman Sagum, hair by KIYO and make-up by Mia Yang

Whilst standing outside of myself I witnessed myself traffic in human flesh and shame.
I wonder if I could grow to hate myself and my work more (I doubt it).
This week I have watched nude women wonder around me, I have watched women screaming and crying and treating the other ones possessions as disease and whilst I watch the meat of their minds both women remind me that all women get exactly what they will.
Myself included and let it be known that Morrigan is with her now.

What a week it has been.
Now let us sleep off this week in unimagined bliss.

Arthur

Water colour by Arthur Ranson.

I wanted to tell you about this artist.
You see he has this way about him, he has this patients and calming.
I wrote to him,
I told him of our mutual friends and that myself and Tobias are fans,
We ended up at his house.
I would say his colouring and compostion is one of my single most influences ( I told him this)
He resinates within Tobias I can see it, Arthur’s work stuck him at an early age.
He is one of the artists at 2000AD, only he is no ordinary comic artist.
He took us into a room in his welcoming house and showed us a unit filled with art.
We spent 7hours looking through all the pages he had done for various magazines and comics, just the 3 of us in this beautiful room, in a beautiful county looking at astonishing art.
He let us take a peice of art each, I could barely believe it.
I know the comic industry well and I know what original artwork means. And especially what it means at the standard he sets.
I would like to thank Arthur for that day, and for setting a standard I know I have to work for.

As repayment for this beautiful work Tobias made him this site. Please if visit if you have a love for the medium as I have.

www.arthurranson.com