Plymouth

Last weekend was spent travelling around the West Country with my boyfriend and his DJ mates. First stop was Burnham to visit his parents, then Plymouth via Taunton, then a drive to St.Ives, then a drive back to Plymouth from St.Ives at 3am, a brief wander round Plymouth, back to his parents house in Somerset and then Bristol on Monday morning! I picked up a good selection of 35mm cameras in Bristol Oxfam (which is managed by my boyfriend's mother) which I intend to try out as soon as I get the appropriate batteries/more film!

These photos are from a press shoot in Plymouth, I'll have more soon...











p.s. I am going to stop using expired crappy film and buy more of this fuji pro stuff, the colours are so rich and there's less obvious grain. I also noticed that skin tone is truer, not so washed out, a little creamy even! I always thought pro film was just the same as fuji superia but the results are more sophisticated.

greenwich

A few weeks ago me and Emma visited the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to see the Astronomer of the year Photo Exhibition. Greenwich is such a lovely place with superb views and wonderful architecture, I would recommend a day trip.

notting hill carnival

Way back in August I went to Notting Hill Carnival for the first time in about 3 years. I forgot how much walking there is between soundsystems, how easy it is to lose people and that you're probably not gonna get your jerk chicken as the queues are stupid. However it's a feast for the eyes... and ears. And I got to do some bogling!

R.I.P Polaroid

David Bailey Fenton Bailey 2005

Polaroid is dead. The last stocks have now expired. It's the end of an art form. The end of an era in photography. We are losing analogue.

To commemorate there is an exhibition at the ATLAS Gallery in London which features a large selection of polaroid photography from a large variety of artists from Warhol to Bailey to Newton Kértesz.

Check it out here: Atlas Gallery

Exhibition runs from 09.01.09 to 28.11.09

I make films too...

Mixed Up from cassie clarke on Vimeo.

Mixed Up is a film which explores the correlations between mixed race heritage and style influences. I made this film for my final major project at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication where I studied BA Fashion Promotion. It was all conceived, filmed and edited by me and is my first film... ever. Please visit mixup.tumblr.com

Dir. Cassandra Clarke, 2009 UK
28 mins/Colour

Norman Parkinson

Today I bought a book in a junk shop in Greenwich.

The book was a collection of photographs by the photographer Norman Parkinson.
I have never heard of him nor seen his work before but I fell in love instantly.
His body of work spanned 5 decades and his fashion shots and celebrity shots are exquisite.

There is a lot of fun in his work, surreality and comedy!

The Cut Newspaper

I took some photos of my best friend Paulina for and article about her life with Cystic Fibrosis. You can read it here and download a PDF version:

http://www.thecutnewspaper.com/life/issue4/cysticfibrosis.html

Some more shots that didn't make the cut below.

Moonmilk | Ryan McGinley

I've never really been much of a fan of McGinley's work, yeah sure I appreciate it and some of his shots are just beautiful (a favourite)
but I do feel that his name became one which would fall into every conversation I had about photography with someone who didn't know a lot about contemporary photographers except for who Vice magazine was totally bumming. He has also spawned a following of copycats. It's not really that hard to put a few naked friends in a steamy room with a 40W bulb and talk a photo with a Yashica T4 now.

Tomorrow I am going to see his new work Moonmilk at the Alison Jaques gallery in London.



I am really looking forward to it. This series is so refreshing. It's well considered and the photographs are pure magic. Fantastical scenes inside huge caverns, lit up with hues of magenta and cyan. look carefully to spot the fragile naked bodies perched on rocky precipes.






SEE MORE | http://www.ryanmcginley.com/moonmilk | http://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com

(ALL IMAGES -RYAN McGINLEY)

he. finds. things.

Egg Shell




Rabbit Bone