street or studio tate modern

In the summer the Tate collaborated with Flickr and Blurb to create a photobook of urban portraits to coincide with the major exhibition Street & Studio : An Urban History of Photography, held at Tate Modern, London 22 May - 31 August 2008. 

Photographers were invited to contribute urban portraits via the Street or Studio Flickr group. From the thousands submitted 100 were selected by Juergen Teller, Ute Eskildsen (Curator of Street & Studio) and Heather Champ (Flickr). 

My image of a girl reading her text messages on her mobile phone outside the silent rave at the Queen Elizabeth Hall was taken on the summer solstice 2008 and made it into the photobook.

destinasian:viewfinder

My image Behind the Taj will feature in a photography exhibition at the Viewfinder Gallery in Greenwich.

Curated by Bombay Mix, DestinAsian:Viewfinder is part of a multimedia festival celebrating the Indian Subcontinent. The photography exhibition at the Viewfinder Gallery runs alongside events at the National Maritime Museum and the Greenwich Picture House. 

The exhibition has been selected as the top exhibition to visit during Photomonth 08 - the largest photography festival in the UK, by 24 Hour Museum.

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for my daughter by glyn maxwell

If I call this poem that, I have as new 

A pattern of three words to learn as you

Have everything. The day you get the gist 

Of what is becoming you'll have missed 

The point you were. Then you'll have reached the stage

You stay at, insofar as every age 

In writing is a step along a shelf

Where words are stowed and weather like a self.

The height is dizzy but it stays the same

And the ladder gets you there when you make a name 

Of something I keep calling you. That date 

We won't forget to celebrate,

Like rain we needed after a long spell

Of what was blissful but incredible

hide now

In Hide Now, Glyn Maxwell shows how the times have begun to warp time itself: in the poet's vision, the past rears up again with its angry ghosts, the present is racked by nightmares marital and climatic, and the future has already come and gone. All the stories of the earth seem menaced by just one - some cover their eyes and ears to it, some run and hide.

Glyn Maxwell selected my picture of Umi behind glass for the cover of his latest collection of work, published in October by Picador Poetry.

treehugger

sensitive dependence was recently featured on treehugger

sensitive dependence

sensitive dependence is a series of images that explore our relationship with the natural world as though through the eyes of a child. It is a body of work that looks at the fragility of the world around us, a child's affinity with nature and concerns I have with environmental damage and the legacy we are leaving our children.

sensitive dependence refers to chaos theory and the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain reaction culminating in large scale alterations of events. 

The images relate to the idea of cause and effect and the transience of existence - they are beautiful, compelling and ephemeral. They suggest we hold this fragile world in our hands.