For the last month I have been part of a six person show at the Getty Gallery on Eastcastle Street, W1. It is the gallery's first contemporary show and the work of the other five photographers was very strong that the images sat so well together. It sadly comes down today but here's to the next show.
Sri Lankan portrait
Whilst heading through the mountains between Kandy and Ella I stopped to stretch my legs and saw this amazingly smiley and happy man. I asked if I could take his portrait and then quickly set-up my background for him to stand in front of. He was an amazing character and I was pretty pleased with what I captured -
Tour groups
In 2006 I travelled to Beijing to shoot the contents of my first book, 'Made In China'. Whilst I was there I got to see, for the first time in my life, big groups of tourists being lead around from location to location. Although really interesting to see I felt it was too Martin Parr territory so I didn't shoot anything. In Sri Lanka though there was this fantastically happy group of Chinese tourists that were photographing each other. The group must have been about fifty or so and so it was taking a while to work through the group at each chosen location. I quickly snapped a few digi shots and left them to it.
Dartboard
The Col du Tourmalet 2015
Tomorrow the Tour de France works its way up through the Pyrenees and the infamous Col du Tourmalet. In 2012 I hiked up the climb with my 5x4 field camera to document the race. I also got to watch Team Sky help, British cyclist, [Sir] Bradley Wiggins get safely up that mountain and a few weeks later be crowned the winner of the race. This year Team Sky's Chris Froome is currently wearing the maillot jaune [yellow jersey] so tomorrow should be a good day's viewing.
Here's a few images from 2012 -