A journey into the loony & brilliant world of Terry Gilliam, filmmaker, screenwriter, animator, actor and a true original. From his Monty Python days to his cult movies like Brazil, Gilliam has always done it his way. Notoriously disaster prone and not necessarily the ideal role model, nonetheless, this man’s ...
This month marks the 45th anniversary of the May 1968 protests in Paris. My father was living in Paris’s Latin Quarter at the time. He had finished his studies at la Sorbonne, was working as an English teacher at Air France and still living in his student hotel. “L’hotel de la Loire” on Rue Du ...
Ten years ago now I had my first Bangkok solo show during the 2003 “Bangkok Month of Photography” – I had roamed the streets in search of takraw players, these urban nomads who use abandoned land, and keep having to find new spots to practice the gravity defying sport as property developers eventually move ...
In the early sixties, my father bought his books from George and went to readings at his bookshop. 30 years later, I followed suit. George Whitman, the American bookseller in Paris, – great friend of the Beat writers, and an even greater friend and patron of generations of aspiring wordsmiths – died this week at ...
Sorting through hundreds of negatives, slides, contact sheets was a painful process but some completely forgotten images resurfaced, notably random color, black and white 6×6 and 35mm images taken in London’s Brick Lane / Hoxton / Old Street areas between 1999 and 2001… Sunday morning in Brick Lane © Cedric ...
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Starting today, June 12th right in front of Paris’s legendary book store Shakespeare & Co. www.festivalandco.com A literary festival featuring some of today’s leading authors such as Paul Auster. The festival entitled: “Real lives, exploring memoir and biography”, runs from June 12th to 15th. For ...
After Emails form many people asking what happened to my music photography pages, I’ve decided to put some back here. Haven’t done any concert photography for ages due to, err well the most ridiculous shooting conditions being imposed by concert promoters in Bangkok, putting us miles away and often way off to ...
After escaping Bangkok’s blistering April heat for Europe 5 consecutive years, I finally caught a glimpse of the Songkran (Thai new year) water mayhem in the city’s backpacking district of Khao San rd… I enlisted the help of a plastic waterproofish toy camera and some black & white film. That same ...