18th April 2013
Crossing Paths - Spanish City Easter Fair, Whitley Bay
For the next two weeks I will be showing images from across the North East of England including portraits from amongst other towns Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesborough, N & S Shields, Durham, Consett, Darlington and Whitley Bay. Check here for regular updates http://www.crossing-paths.co.uk/
12th February 2013
Crossing Paths - Queen Square, High Wycome
A recent shot from my long term, Portrait of Britain project. Click the photo to link through to more images from the series
28th November 2012
Crossing Paths - fLIP Magazine - Routes Issue
I’m very pleased to have a long feature and interview about the Crossing Paths project in the London Independent Magazine, fLIP. Much spouting forth from me on topics such as travelling, Britishness, colours, photographing children, blah, blah etc etc… Anyway you can buy it here if you fancy http://bit.ly/Ya6E7k
20th November 2012
Crossing Paths on the BBC News website
Click the picture to link through to an article written by BBC picture editor Phil Coomes about my Crossing Paths project
23rd October 2012
Financial Times Appeal - Photography Auction 2012
I am very pleased to have one my of images, ‘Cape Neddick, Maine, 1997’ included in the FT Photography Auction which this year is in aid of the The Global Fund for Children.
The image was taken on a cold and blustery October day as we were driving south to Boston airport. We stopped in Cape Neddick, a New England coastal resort, very much boarded up for the winter, to stretch our legs. The only people around seemed to be this young couple, romantically entwined in their Dodge Ram pickup truck staring out to sea, holding on to the last remnants of the summer season. It’s now 15 years later and when I look at the image, I wonder what became of the couple, maybe they are still together, maybe living still in Cape Neddick, maybe raising a young family. I hope so but somehow I doubt it. Maybe I should go back and search them out.
Several years after I took the image, it was picked up through Millennium Pictures for the cover of the final part of the celebrated Frank Bascombe trilogy of novels, Lay of the Land by the great American novelist Richard Ford. After it was published we struck up a correspondence and he bought a print, the only other one printed from this edition so far. The print (2/10) is a 24 x 20” Lamba C-Type print.
The auction takes place on 15th Nov with a public viewing on Tues 13th/14th at the FT Building, 1 Southwark Bridge, London. Other prints in the auction are from some very well known names including Tom Stoddart, Jane Bown, Slim Aarons and Cecil Beaton. Richard Ford has also very kindly donated a signed first edition of Lay of the Land to go with the auction of the Cape Neddick print
Here is a link to the auction
(Source: niallmcdiarmid.com)
22nd October 2012
Nice to see a piece about the new Millennium Images catalogue in the Independent on Sunday review last week including a shot of mine from East London. Millennium have been syndicating a selection of my images for 10 years, licensing work for more than 40 book covers by writers such as Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, Mary Wesley, John Healy and Sebastian Barry. http://bit.ly/RnJXqa
I will be giving a talk about my Crossing Paths portrait project at Preston Photographic Society on Thursday 18th October. The talk starts at 7.30 and afterwards I will be answering questions. Free for members/£5 for non-members. I would be pleased to see you there.
You can read about the project http://bit.ly/RjZ7dR and view the ongoing series here http://www.crossing-paths.co.uk/
Preston Photographic Society
Fulwood Conservative Club
Blackpool Road
Preston PR2 3AE
2nd October 2012
Manchester United are playing in Cluj, Northern Romania tonight in the Champions League. It reminded me, I visited the area in the early 90s not long after the Ceausescu regime fell. Although the town itself was desperately run down, I met some great people there, including this couple, both in their 90s.
They had were born before the Balkan war in 1912, lived through the First World War when Romania eventually sided with the Allies, through the Second World War when the country reluctantly sided with Germany, switching to the Allied side in 1944, through the post war Soviet years when Romania was under Russian rule, through the brutal 1965 to 1989 Ceausescu regime and living to see independence in the 1990s - amazing lives
15th September 2012
I am very pleased to say my Crossing Paths project has been awarded a Lucie International Photography Award 2012. 3rd in the Portrait Category.
Click the image to link through to the whole project. The shot shown is one of the earliest in the series which began in February 2011
Crossing Paths - James Street, London
12th July 2012
Crossing Paths - Queen’s Square, Crawley
Here’s the latest shot from my Crossing Paths series taken in Queen’s Square, Crawley last week. Click on the picture to take you through to the whole series. I will be taking a break from the project for a few weeks - I need to put my feet up for a couple of weeks - they hurt from all the walking!
9th July 2012
Henny Acloque - Artist
To artist’s Henny Acloque studio, in London on Thursday. As well as a solo show in Liverpool in January, she was invited to exhibit at the Royal Academy Summer Show and is part of the Polemically Small exhibition of 50 British artists at Orleans House Museum till September. Henny is represented by the Ceri Hand Gallery which is opening a new space in London’s Monmouth Street later this month. You can read more about her work and the gallery here - www.cerihand.co.uk
2nd July 2012
Crossing Paths - Kirkgate, Leeds
I’ve added a new batch of images to my Crossing Paths project. Recent towns I have stopped at include Walsall, Sheffield and Poole in Dorset. Click on the image above to go through to the whole series. I hope to be travelling in coming weeks so look out for more!
1st July 2012
I’m heading north again to Scotland tomorrow for commissioned work. Here’s a shot from a couple of years ago, riding the rails near Newcastle.
29th June 2012
Calum
Here’s a shot of my younger brother Calum taken a few years ago at home in Scotland. He will be part of the ITV Countrywise programme shown on Monday 1st July 8pm talking about life and work in rural Highland Perthshire.
27th June 2012
Diana Athill - Letters to A Friend
Just released is this cover (on the left) published in the US by WW Norton. There have been slight adjustments to the original shot (on the right), taken in Scotland a couple of years ago but I really like the feel of it.
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