Thumbsucker photobook

Yesterday I felt really lucky. I went to see Death Cab For Cutie in Manchester (nice show, saw them live finally but don't think I would pay for seeing them again) and just when I walked out of the train station saw this shop and this book in the window. Just ran inside and bought it, had been looking for it for so long.

Thumbsucker is probably my favourite movie, I remember watching it in Gijón Film Festival and feeling so close to it, from the music (R.I.P. Elliott Smith) to the photography.
Mike Mills is its director and does other pretty cool thing as these, and has a new movie just coming out in UK in 2 weeks (I think), Beginners.

The photobook feels so coherent with the movie, the selection of photographers fits perfectly the aesthetics of it. Some of my favourites as Ryan Mcginley or Ed Templeton are in it along with Mark Borthwick, Todd Cole and Takashi Homma.

Escape Wavefold

Last weekend I went back to Scotland after two years. On Saturday morning I met Kimberley Grant in Edinburgh and went for a walk trying to find some locations. I had worked with Kimberley before when I was living in Glasgow and we shot the Graveyard Girl session inspired in M83. This time I wanted to shoot in Glasgow again but finally couldn't so decided to do it in Edinburgh, I wasn't sure if we would be able to find some nice spots but ended up in the abandoned buildings you can see in the photos, they were amazing.

Kimberley Grant also takes photos and has made the Touris.ms guide to Glasgow, so make sure you check it!

There are some more photos from the shoot, if you wanna see them head to my Flickr or Cargo Collective.

Beside the sea - Article Magazine Issue 03

Published in Article Magazine Issue 03
Models: Cally Higginbottom & Leila Walker
Styling: Emma Pud
Production: Ben Dunmore

First of all it seems like everytime I upload an image here the quality is even worse than the last time, is someone else having the same problem?

These are part of a editorial I shot for Article Magazine before Easter. The mag is out now and you can get it for free in Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, you can check the stocklist here.

If you're interested in checking more photos from the shoot (and in definitely better quality) you can take a look at my Cargo Collective or Flickr

Swatch MTV Playground

Here's another video from Swatch MTV Playground. I'm sure you've heard about Rankin, he has portrayed celebrities as Madonna, Katy Perry or even Prince William, as well as being the founder of Dazed & Confused. In this video he explains why you need to love your work if you're doing something creative and what it takes to become a successful photographer, quite an inspirational advice.
If you wanna take a look at more of the interviews with Rankin you can do it here, I wouldn't miss them! And you can also take a look at this talk with singer Kelis.

Take Ivy

New favourite book and style and inspiration guide.

Toxteth

Yesterday I went for a walk around my neighbourhood, the guy in the photos is Russell Frew. I don't know why the portrait orientation photos have so low quality in here, anyway, there are 12 more photos from yesterday. If you are interested (and wanna see them in bigger quality) you can take a look at them at my Cargo Collective or Flickr. By the way, going back to Scotland tomorrow after two years!!

Absolut Network: AER Studio & bRUNA

AER Studio y bRUNA | ABSOLUT Network from ABSOLUT NETWORK on Vimeo.

Cool video from the guys of Absolut Networkwhere AER Studio and bRUNAtalk about their projects.