HYP studio fashion shoot
Just got back from an amazing day @ London College of Fashion’s Lime Grove site. They gave us free use of 2 studios, an awesome assistant and make up artist so the HYP could polish up their studio skills and we could photography some work made by other young creatives. Thanks to everyone involved for … Continue reading
Threads
Peabody run Threads a fashion project working with 10 – 18 year old girls on the Pembury Estate. 11 girls turned up with accessories, bags and t shirts. They also did a fantastic job of modeling the Stop Knife Crime Tees from another Brady Centre youth arts project for Art Against Knives Make up by … Continue reading
Brady / Burberry collection
Alika has just run in during his lunch break to model the Brady Arts Centre Burberry mens wear. The clothes look amazing, they were made by young people last August who worked with Burberry to create a whole collection. Hannah from Peabody’s Fashion Threads project looks amazing in the womans wear. Make up by Mena … Continue reading
LCF – Studio set up and notes
Tola and Sam are setting up the studio so we can shoot 11 young designers and makers from the Peabody Threads fashion project. Here’s the set up & below some sound advice from LCF tech Sam. Backdrop – crisp white as we’re going to be doing group shots 2 x umbrella lights Bowens 250, these … Continue reading
F>Y>I
Focused Young Individuals to you! Sienna / Shoot 6 is in the bag with Kezia and Jenkins assisting and now we’re on the look out for the perfect exhibition space or spaces.
Tom Hunter – believe in what you do
When I emailed Tom Hunter at the start of Hackney Young Photographers I didn’t really expect a reply so I was pretty surprised when two weeks ago when he emailed and offered his time to talk to the group. I typed as fast as I could and below is the results, I hope it’s faithful … Continue reading
Life’s a bitch
Shooting Kayla in Victoria park – everything comes full circle. Friday we shot Kayla in Victoria Park with her first Staffie Fizz. Perfect location as it’s where we shot her short film Hackney Hounds / Life’s a Bitch last summer. Felt really poignant, especially as Kayla is expecting her first child in July. If you’re … Continue reading
It’s good to share
5 Arts Awards DONE! All the HYP have shared their skills with the community and what a great job they did too. Lydia helped 3 U18 at Space Studios on 24th Feb Fidaus & Cynthia went into Hackney Quest to teach 13 U16 Ashleigh & Tola helped the YH Creatives learn new skills and take … Continue reading
Artistic tendancies
“This place is haunted you know.” says Kojo as we walk round Hoxton Hall Looking around it became clear to me why Kojo loved the place so much. It is very rare to find a theatre with its authentic look still there. This one was no exception and had all the original little qwerks. The … Continue reading
Ourspac_e comes alive
Seeing is believing – Ourspac_e collaboration comes alive by Lucy Ferguson : yhworld & mediorite OK so I’ve been working on the Ourspac_e photography project with Agenda for about 2 years. We came up with the idea in March 2009 as a collaborative project to capture young people in their place of meaning. We wanted … Continue reading
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