National Geographic Traveller
Some pretty big news: I’ve got a 7 page feature of Bolivian adventure travel photos in this months National Geographic Traveller magazine.
It’s available in newsagents until 23rd May, so get a copy whilst you can. Thanks Gav Brightman and Chris Hudson for editing and designing the spreads.
Below: Bolivia Adventure travel opening spread (tearsheet)
New website featured on Photo Archive News
Thanks Will Carleton for featuring my new website on the Photo Archive News blog.
Below: Aymara musician at Valley de la Luna, Bolivia
Timothy Allen
Absolutely breathtaking slideshow of Timothy Allen’s photographs shot during the making of the BBC series Human Planet, truly spectacular. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12618167
Breaking the silence
Hello. It’s all been a bit quiet on the blogging front recently from my end, but that’s because I’ve been busy editing and sorting the content for my new website, built by Jonny at the excellent ivyowl design.
The new site has lots of new work on it: features, reportage, travel and commercial galleries, plus a tearsheets section with examples of published work. You can see it here: www.philclarkehill.co.uk so please take a look. Hope you enjoy it.
Freedom from Torture Graffiti wall
The photos that Freedom From Torture commissioned me to shoot of their graffiti wall in Shoreditch, are now live on their site, along with some video by Toby Summerskill. See it all here
emphas.is launches publishing arm
Crowd-funding site emphas.is specifically working with Photojournalism, launches its publishing arm. One of the first projects on there is the hilarious ‘England Uncensored, 10 years photographing the English’ by Peter Dench, also exhibited at Visa Por L’image last year.
Belo Monte Foto8 Story of the week
Just a quick note to tell you about a couple of major events this week. As previously mentioned, my Belo Monte project is Foto8’s story of the week. You can see it here
Also, I have an image from the Bolivian Miners series included in the Prinspace’s Sample 12 show, and also they have used it for the flyer (below) the show opens Thurs 2nd Feb at the Printspace studios, 74 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, E2 8DL, hope to see some of you there.
Sample 12 – Celebrating the Best Photography of 2011
One of my images from the Oruro Carnival feature has been selected for Sample 12 group show at the Printspace, and they’ve even used it as the flyer for the show!
Press release:
LONDON, UK This February, East London photo gallery theprintspace will open its doors for Sample 12, an exhibition showcasing a cross-section of images by photographers and artists who have printed at theprintspace in 2011. Sample 12 is the fifth annual group show of theprintspace clients’ work, the exhibitions are known for showcasing young and fresh work from photographers such as Alan Powdrill, Roberta Ridolfi, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Rupert Nightingale and many more.
This year, theprintspace gave everyone who printed with them over the past 12 months the unique opportunity to apply and take part in their group show Sample 12 – and hundreds of photographers submitted their images. The exhibition was compiled by Sample 12 curator, award-winning reportage photographer Toby Smith. “Curating a themed exhibition from such a diverse collection of images was always going to be difficult. Instead, I have picked work that is strong on both technical and aesthetic grounds as single images or diptychs. Dislocated from their context the shots can become even more mysterious and hopefully encourage the audience to track down other works in the same series.”
The colourful and exciting show celebrates fantastic photography by talented photographers from around the world, ranging from portrait and landscape to documentary, iPhone and travel photography. theprintspace gallery is excited to present outstanding works by professional and amateur photographers including Oscar Rodriguez, Bernat Millet, Maria Konstanse Bruun, Phil Clarke-Hill, Olivier Hess and many more.
Sample 12, a celebration of stunning photography from 2011, opens at theprintspace gallery at 74 Kingsland Road on Thursday, 2nd February from 7pm-9:30pm with drinks provided.
The exhibition then continues from 3rd to 28th February Monday-Friday 9am-7pm. Admission free!
Waste Not, Want Not
Here’s a preview of the story about Food Waste I shot at the end of last year in association with Fareshare and Food Cycle. Just waiting for some permissions to clear, then I’ll be sending it out for potential publication.
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Happy New Year 2012
Latest news from Phil Clarke-Hill Photography
This year is off to a flying start, as the Belo Monte project shot in 2011 in association with
Amazon Watch, is to be featured as FOTO8 story of the week in January. 2011 was a busy one for me, with lots of aspects coming together marking a seminal and successful year, regardless of the recession.
Below: Indigenous Arara girl looking out to the Xingu River – the heart of the region due to be flooded by the impending construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric project.
From February to May, I returned to Bolivia and Brazil to contiune working with subjects of environmental, social and cultural importance. During my time there I shot 3 commissions for Dennis Publishing’s Bizarre magazine: Devil’s Carnival de Oruro, El Tio God of the Underworld, and Lucha Libre, Bolivian style. Devil’s Carnival de Oruro was published in August, the others go out in 2012. In addition, I was working with the Congress of La Paz, visiting remote Pilcomayo region of Potosi district, and covering the La Paz landslide for my agency Specialist Stock / Barcroft Media. In between times I further expanded my travel archive, visiting the Salar Uyuni, The World’s most dangerous road in the Yungas, La Paz, and Asunscion: Paraguay.
Below: Salar Uyuni after the rain
In the summer months I began a major body of work: ‘Food Matters,’ – a documentation of the UK food industry in the 21st Century – where it is and where it’s going. I visited and blogged about innovative and interesting projects, such as Verticrop (below), Riverford Organic Farm and Putting Down Roots.
In Nov – Dec I shot a feature about food waste, in association with Food Cycle and Fareshare, which is now ready for publication, I will be sending it out in the coming weeks.
In 2012 I’ll be expanding Food matters to cover more common and everyday aspects of food production: visiting larger factories, distribution centres and farming operations.
New clients for 2011 included Haymarket, the United Nations OHRLLS, MSN.com, Arts Council Creative Partnerships / Creative Junction, VJEM Events and Claires, plus image sales across the World. In September I started the MA in Photojournalism at Westminster University under the excellent tuition of Max Houghton, Polly Braden, Ben Edwards and David Campany.
This April I will be returning to my International area of focus – Brazil, to revisit the Belo Monte project and shoot features about Sugarcane, Soya production, Love Motels and a few more tricks up my sleeve.
…..New website launching in February…..
Brazil’s most popular TV station Globo, joins the Belo Monte Campaign
It seems like the campaign against the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam is gathering momentum and coming into the mainstream, in Brazil at least…
The most popular, widely available and famous TV station in Brazil: Globo, famous for its soap operas watched by a huge proportion of the population, has made a video for the people of Brazil talking about the affects of the dam, and why it’s important for everyone to think about and how they’ll be affected.
You can see the video with english subtitles here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVUYV4YuKjc
The petition can be seen here (Portuguese): http://www.movimentogotadagua.com.br/
Feeding the 5000 photos
Feeding the 5000 was a truly fantastic and inspiring event to be involved in. It was a great way to educate the public about food waste and food security. And of course a chance for everyone to share a free lunch!
There was a brief appearance from Boris Johnson which helped bring some mainstream press coverage to the event too. I concentrated on the more subtle details of the day, especially interesting was the huge pile of food provided by produce world that was rejected by the supermarkets because it wasn’t perfect – what a signifier of how much perfectly good food is wasted unnecessarily every day: current estimates put it at 30% of all food in the UK!
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Feeding the 5000
Heading down to the Feeding the 5000 event on Friday with my camera, organised by Friends of the Earth: http://www.feeding5k.org/
Riverford
In August whilst I was down in Devon shooting the first phase of Food Matters, one of the key locations I visited was Riverford Organic in Totnes. Riverford is an independent organic farm, farm shop and award winning restaurant. Their main business is providing weekly veg boxes, as well as high quality meat and dairy. The vast majority of food is grown on the farm or by their partner farms in the local area.
Thanks to Rachel Lovell They were very helpful and willing to grant me full access in exchange for some photos. I documented the whole farm, orchards, salad patch and strawberry picking, plus their semi automated processing and packing area. Since visiting the farm I’m now a weekly Riverford customer: there’s something really satisfying about knowing and having seen exactly where and how your food has made its way to you.
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