Egypt Protests

 

Egypt is embarking on the road to democracy after 3 decades of authoritarian rule under the Mubarak regime. When the new president Morsi gave himself dictatorial powers to rush through a new constitution thousands of people took to the streets and re-occupied Tahrir Square, the center of the 2011 revolution. I decided to jump on the first plane to Cairo to record the protests and the actions of the people to uphold the principles of the first revolution. The strength of feeling and energy of the demonstrators was quite inspirational.

Egypt Murals

 

Whilst I was in Cairo covering the protests over the proposed new constitution I noticed the way the protesters painted murals to record the events and those killed during the revolution of 2011. It's a facinating use of a very public art form and loads of people came to see them and get themselves photographed against them.

Portable Interview

 

Did a interview for portable magazine the other week. It's mainly based around my personal project and gives some insight to the motives behind them. I'm very pleased with it.

Winner in IPA Effectiveness Awards

 

The 'Who Killed Deon' campaign I worked on has been awarded a Gold at the IPA Effectiveness Awards. It was an integrated and interactive campaign for AMV for the Metropolitan Police. A murder is committed and we follow a group of teenagers involved in the crime to find out who did it.

The Royal British Legion

 

Worked with Art Director Simone Micheli on this years Poppy Appeal for the Royal British Legion. We worked in the studio for the black and white backgrounds and then met up with some of the families and people who the RBL have helped out over the last few years.

RedBee

 

Got a call from Frazer Jellyman about working a project with him for the series Yesterday. We had to re-create East End gangsters, Victorian womens bare knuckle street fighting and a tomb raiders from the 30's in the Amazon jungle, all shot in London.
I've shot with Frazer several times and he's a great Creative to work with making it a real collaborative project.

Winner in New York Photo Awards for Best Advertising Series.

 

After being selected for the New York Photo Festival this summer I've been judged the winner for the Best Advertising Series in their awards for 2012.

Winner in the AOP Awards 2012 Moving Image.

 

Received the news this evening that I won 'Best in Category' for Moving Image at the AOP Awards 2012. It's one of my video's from Manila about the life of one of the cities sex workers, Rowena Hamor, and the trouble she has trying to raise her young daughter.

Creative Review Photography Annual 2012

 

Two of my recent personal projects have just been selected for the Creative Review photography Annual 2012. It's work from Mongolia and Manila shot over the last 12 months.

International Photography Awards

 

My book Shibuya has been awarded 3rd prize in the International Photography Awards Professional Book People category.

EDL

 

Back in June i spent one weekend with those delightful men and women of the English Defence League. Working with Dan Jude we met Tommy Robinson and his associates. First thing the next morning on the coach upto a march in Rochdale. The whole town centre was sealed off in a police operation that cost over £1 million for what was the shortest march I've even seen, about 150 meters. Still the crowd managed to start a fight with the police and get 11 people arrested in such a short space of time. Reminded me of the times I covered BNP marches in the 90's. Same old crowd of ex skinheads only 20 years older.

Macdonalds

 

With the build up to the Olympics I've been asked to shoot the poster campaign for mcDonald's. The focus is on the 'Gamesmakers', the volunteers who work behind the scenes preparing the events and also with the public, helping out with enquiries and guiding people on the actual days. It was a long hard slog through mountains of paperwork and restriction but everyone pulled together to pull it all off. Creatives: Mark Franklin and Rob Tenconi, Agency: Leo Burnetts, London, Production: Alex Pasley-Tyler at Location Productions, Styling: Jim Fenwick at Serious Boy Ltd

Selected for the AOP Awards 2012

 

Just got an email to say I've had a couple of video's selected for the Association of Photographers Annual Awards. The film's were shot in Caracas and Manila and part of an on going project I'm working on about the growth of slum communities around are major cities and the people who make their lives there.
Hope you like them.

Usain Bolt - FHM

 

The spread on Usain Bolt is out in this month's FHM magazine. it's the cover and lead feature. We shot it over in Jamacia at Bob Marley's house in Kingston. We shoot him over a couple of hours, lot's of wardrobe changes etc. He'd been doing a media weekend of it for Puma so we needed to really work at it to get him to perform. Let's see if he can break his world record in the London Olympics.

Proust

 

I was asked by Charlie De Grussa to do what is called the 'Proust' interview for his new blog The Proust. It's a set of 20 questions that he's been asking various people in the media industry to answer. It makes for some interesting comparisons in people's answers and should become an interesting blog to follow.

Ecuador

 

Got back from a 10 day shoot in Ecuador. It was for the Ecuadorian tourist Board and I was asked to get as much variety as possible in the time allowed. Lots of travelling around the country, exhausting but rewarding as the county is one of the most beautiful in South America.

Let's Go. Shell

 

One of the Shell adverts I worked on came out during the Euro 2012. It was shot one cold rainy night at Crystal Palace, all street cast to get some of the real fans in the picture.

Nike Make it count Event Brixton

 

Nike are holding a Basketball festival with special guest Luol Deng in Brixton at the end of the month. Guy Featherstone and W&K designed these great posters for the event.

Foto8 Summershow

 

One of my images from the Mongolia project has been selected for the Foto8 summer show. It's a collage of 16 images taken of waste pipes at the Erdenet Open Cast mine. They pump out waste water from the refining process into a massive man made lake.

Tour De France

 

Panos Pictures asked me if I would contribute to a book they're working on covering the great cycle tournaments around the world. they were looking for landscapes of the races outside of the race season. I'd been to the Col du Tourmalet stage of the Tour de France over the summer and thought it would make some interesting images. It was late April so I was quite surprised to find the 2115 meter summit still covered in snow. It made for an interesting trek up the mountain in gale force winds, up to my waist in snow drifts at times.

Selected for the New York Photography Festival

 

The Nike MakeItCount campaign shots have been selected for the New York Photography Festival. It's taking place from 16-20th May and will showcase a mixture of commercial and art based photography.

Lurzers Archive

 

The Nike 'MakeItCount' campaign has made it into this month's issue of Luzer's Archive.

Independent On Sunday

 

The Shibuya was selected as 'Photography Book of the Week' by the Independent on Sunday. The text accompanying the piece is below:
Shibuya, one of the less explicitly political books by the English photojournalist Adam Hinton, is a series of portraits of commuters using one of the worlds busiest train stations, in Shibuya, Tokyo. Catching them in private or contemplative moments, and somehow isolated from their fellow travellers, it's mood is paradoxically quiet and still, yet it also speaks of their weariness, and of the heavy toll of participating in a market driven economy. Says Hinton: "Little did I know about the terrible events that would befall Japan two months later [earthquake and tsunami], which seems to add another layer to the images."

It's Nice That

 

Got a very good review of the book on the 'It's Nice That' blog. It's an interview with Paul Belford and he talks about the book and the ideas behind publishing it.

Shibuya Book Launch

 

The Shibuya book has finally hit the shelves! The book features images I shot in Tokyo last year. I spent four days hanging around Shibuya station photographing the commuters during the morning and evening rush hour. I really just wanted to take interesting images without focusing on some of the issues I usually focus on but according to people who viewed the work it was very much a statement on peoples working lives.
The Creative Director Paul Belford really liked the work and asked if i like to publish the images his agencies first book. I of course couldn't say no and was honoured to be asked.

Sunday Telegraph Magazine Cover

 

The Sunday Telegraph used one of the Nike images for the cover of their Sports Life Magazine. It's one of the portraits I took of Cavandish after his training session.

Fashion Feature in Volt Magazine

 

The fashion shoot I did for Volt magazine is now out. I worked with Cynthia Lawrence-John on the Nike shoot I did in December. She was the stylist and is also the editor of the magazine and asked me to do some work for them. The magazine looks amazing and the reproduction is photo book quality.

Film screening on Channel 4

 

Channel 4 will be screening one of my films from Caracas as part of their new 'Shooting Gallery' series. It's a short film about people's attitude to the President Hugo Chavez and his socialist reforms. It's in conjunction with Panos Pictures and will be on air at midnight on 15th March.

Shoot for Home Office Anti-Rape campaign

 

I'm shooting stills for a Home Office Anti-Rape campaign aimed at teenagers. It's going to be on a film set and I've only been given 45 minutes during the pre-light to get several executions. the campaign's going on-line and may be for posters.

Nike #makeitcount Exhibition

 

As part of the large scale Nike #makeitcount campaign I shot in December, an exhibition of athlete portraits is on show at Nike's 1948 store running through 22 February. The portraits portray the pure exhaustion experienced during their training and the pain these athletes go through to achieve their goals.

The exhibition will run for the next 2 weeks so get down there if you can.

1948
Arches 477 - 478 Bateman's Row
Shoreditch
London
EC2A

Fashion shoot for Volt magazine

 

Out on my first proper fashion shoot. It's for Volt Magazine which is this beautifully produced bi-annual magazine. It's with Cynthia the stylist on the UK Nike shoots. She's co-owner and fashion editor on it. Once again something new, which is always a fascinating thing to do.

Nike Town - London

 

Niketown on Oxford Street have turned their store into a mini exhibition space for the 'Make it count' campaign. The entrance has been turned into a kind of installation with the portraits of the athlete's with some of they're first pairs of running shoe's.