People
Food
Food 2
The People's Supermarket
The People’s Supermarket is a social enterprise not-for-profit grocery store owned and run by its members. Based on Lambs Conduit Street in London the store works with small local suppliers in the aim to keep food miles to a minimum whilst providing quality produce.
For this project we photographed in the store for several months making portraits of the members, the unemployed local residents now employed by the supermarket as well as the supermarket itself.
Athens Food, Keeping it in the Family
Greece has been in the grip of a financial crisis for the last few years. We travelled to Athens with Boat Magazine find a food story in the city. What we found were family run bussinesses whose foundations have put them in good stead to withstand the recent hard times. We visited old meat and fish markets, deli’s butchers and even a secret Yard restaurant.
These are family businesses based not only on traditional Greek recipes but also tradition Greek ideals: of hospitality, of sharing your table with family, friends and foreigners too. This is the sort of Greek food we went looking for.
Music
#Meateasy
#MEATEASY a pop up Guerrilla dining experience created by the owner of The Meat Wagon Yianni Papoutsis. When The Meat Wagon was stolen Yianni set up this burger/diner joint above a closed down pub in New Cross London.
Purportedly selling the best burgers in the land thanks to much research by Yianni into sourcing the perfect ingredients, #Meateasy was a huge success spread by mouth.
The #Meateasy was run by a crack team of “Burgeruettes” running about the place shouting orders out and delivering food to the tables during anarchic services.
These Images capture the people who worked there, the place and the feeling of #Meateasy.
Dirty Detroit
Detroit was once one of the biggest and richest cities in America. After the collapse of automobile industry, unemployment and crime became rife and almost a million people left Downtown Detroit. Now with the global recession hitting every city in America Detroit is back on the up, a city full of young creative people setting up independent businesses.
We traveled to Detroit with Boat Magazine to produce a positive story about the city. What better way to explore a city than trough your stomach, so we decided to photograph people and places involved in the food and drink scene in the DT.
The Life cycle of the London Market
Working with the writer Dr Crystal Bennes, we illustrated the life cycle of London’s markets. The Project focused on 6 Markets around London looking at different stages in a market’s life cycle from up and coming market to the death of a market and everything in between. All the markets were at different stages of their life cycle, Chapel Market and Smithfield’s Market have been around a while and are still catering for the public’s demands, Brixton Village and Wood Street market have and are undergoing a regeneration period, Shepherd’s Bush Market is in decline and Borough Market has ended up at the end of it’s life cycle and is now more of a tourist site than a market.
Puukko - The Traditional Finnish Knife
The puukko is a traditional Finnish knife originally crafted for hunters and everyday use. Once widely seen being used in everyday life, now these knives are mainly for show and the practice of making them is dying out.
This is a project on Matti Heiskanen (Masa) a traditional Finnish knife maker – a “Puukko Mestari”.
These images show part of the processes of making a puukko.
Places
Thames Town, China
Situated just outside Shanghai Thames Town is a gated community designed in the style of an English village. With China constantly in a state of change and with construction booming many new developments have sprung up on the outskirts of large cities.
However as is common in these developments most of the houses and buildings lay empty. With prices high and not much demand to live an English life in China these places are like ghost towns. The only residents being security guards and the only visitors couples having their wedding photos taken.
Modern China
China is changing. With construction everywhere, new cities are being built from old and others are literally rising up from farmland.
Apart from the economic changes China is also experiencing a massive cultural change. Consumerism and capitalism are no longer seen as the evils they once were, and cultural influences from the West are mixing with old China. It is this mix of new and old that we have tried to capture in these photographs.
Whether it be the skyscrapers jetting out of the ground in Pudong Shanghai which only relatively recently was still farmland or the masses of Chinese tourists, cameras in hand, visiting the Yellow mountains that were used in traditional paintings, China changes by the second.
Immortality - Dem Bones
With this series we were fascinated by the creation of immortality – the way previously living objects have been preserved and displayed and thus brought them back to life in a new form. With the skeletons, it is the way that they have been displayed in a dark room, hung from the ceiling that brings them to life in their new environment.