This was it.

We thought it might be good to document some of the spirit at the Firebird social centre in Balsall Heath. This is the first part of what I’ve done to make a record. More, and more collaborations to follow. see Justice not Crisis for details of the protest.

I’m adding sets of pictures to the archive here to give a fuller picture of some of the work I’ve made. Click here to look at work shot in 2006 in Cuba.

These are images from the recent Rescue Geography Project. See www.rescuegeography.org.uk for more details.

I walked around Aleppo all day yesterday: the souks and small workshops, 10 second cooked bread skimmed down the handle of the paddle used to put them in there and flip them, wholemeal for once and I want to try it, but lose the place, and am shy to try to negotiate the price of a [...]

I went to some ruins this morning early. A 2km broken collonade of romanity lost, a museum with high posted posters of Bashir al-Assad, opened in November ’82, by Hafaz al-Assad. 9 months after the destruction of most of old Hama by goverment troops after an uprising by The Muslim Brotherhood, a militant organisation. Many [...]

It’s been a long time since doing this kind of thing. beyond spluttering about broken cameras- no luck still as yet making visual updates to the blog o reading public- I’m in the Christian quarter of the Old City in Damascus, planning my next move and thinking perhaps not the greatest thoughts, for reasons not [...]

Before coming here last time, I bought a Hasselblad 500cm in apparrently very good nick, tired of the unreliability of my old Bronica S2A, semi trusty medium format bought in 1999 in Havana for 80 bucks. The light seal had gone, and though I’d wanted to test her with a couple of rolls before I [...]