• Throwback Friday #131 More Shunned Things (2021)

    The spooky season is over, but for this week’s retrospective, I’m sharing three images produced back in October 2021 for my ‘Portfolio of Horrors’, The Children Of The Night. These self-portraits didn’t make the cut,… Read more

  • Shunned Things (2022)

    Some Halloween-inspired fun and games – the photoshoot that inspired this ‘picture book’. Sweet dreams. Read more

  • Short Story: Even The Most Shunned Of Things (2022)

    This time last year, I had huge amounts of fun producing a series of self-portraits that lent heavily into the tricking and treating of Halloween. Entitled The Children Of The Night, they emulated old horror… Read more

  • Exquisite Corpses #3 (2022)

    A final set of entombed insects, gathered from the long shelf in our kitchen where they go to die, largely unobserved until it’s too late, but presented here in all their precision and beauty for… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #130 Scarecrow (2009)

    A spooky little something as we near the end of October, as, Nosferatu-like, I appear to be dissipating into the dying of the light over a wintery beach… Read more

  • Exquisite Corpses #2 (2022)

    A second set of ‘exquisite corpses’ from my accidental insect necropolis, inspired by Père Lachaise cemetery, the prompt for The Kick-About No.65. Read more

  • Exquisite Corpses #1 (2022)

    Our kitchen has an angled glass roof running the length of our side-return. Internally, it’s constructed so there is a narrow ledge at the top of the wall, on which the glass panels rest, producing… Read more

  • The Kick-About #65 ‘Cimetière du Père Lachaise’

    From the noise and extravagance of our soundsuit-inspired Kick-About No.64, we’re striking a more melancholy mood this week, as we meander our way past the silent crypts, effigies and monuments of the Père Lachaise cemetery… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #129 Girona (2015)

    Back in 2015, I took 30+ students to Barcelona. Student field trips are exhausting and stressful for all the reasons you might well predict, but they’re also a huge amount of fun and invaluable experiences.… Read more

  • Glove #4 (2022)

    A last few soundsuit-inspired scraps, courtesy of the artist Nick Cave and The Kick-About No.64. Read more

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