Photography(Portraits, Action & Sport, Studio Work, Landscape, Still Life, Macro,) Art, Art History, Digital Art, Reading quality literature, love cooking real food.
I'd like to meet:
Gregory Crewdson, Maggie Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann, Katrin Eismann.
People I'd like to Photograph: Liv Tyler, Steve Tyler, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, John Cusak, Christy Turlington, Gwen Stefani, Michael Stipe's mind, Ewan McGregor's voice.
Nan Goldin
"As addiction and AIDS took their toll on Goldin'd friends in the 1980's and 1990's, so the bed became the a site not of fun, untidiness or debauchery but fatigue, illness, collapse and eventually death. The beds that were once semen-stained, cluttered with the abundance of diposable living , are scrupulously clean,stripped of everything but the bare necessities of life support.
These beds also became the focus of immense compassion as people in their thirties and forties have to learn something which typically, comes much later in life: care for the sick, infirm and bed-ridden. In a remarkably short time the people Goldin pictured lying on their beds, sleeping off hangovers, are seen lying in open coffins, sleeping the big sleep. These later pictures subtly change the earlier ones. Photographs of Goldin's friends, lying in bed - dead to the world, as the saying goes - seem prophetic: snaps of the fate that awaits them."
from Geoff Dyer's The Ongoing Moment.
A selection of documentary photography.
Music:
Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Fables Last Stand, Regina Spektor, REM, Coldplay, Albert Hammond Jnr, Patrick Wolf, The Strokes, Maria Taylor, Rufus Wainwright, Paolo Nutini, Blondie, Azure Ray, Fleetwood Mac, Paul Rose Band, The Zutons, Razorlight.
Movies:
High Fidelity (you got to love Jack Black), Trainspotting, Almost Famous, Tie Me up Tie Me Down, Betty Blue, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Crush, Sex Lies and Videotape, Moulin Rouge, Pride and Prejudice, The English Patient, The Painted Veil (breathtaking cinematography).
Television:
Skins, Deadliest Catch, Sex and the City (still good 10 years on, Shameless.
Books:
Books which improve your mind and expand your horizons - hate holiday trash. Love in a Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres, The Story of O by Pauline Reage "facinating, erotic and repellent" - pornography as an art form - this must be re-read after you learn who wrote it and why. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, The Painted Veil by Somerset Maughan, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Trial by Franz Kafka, American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thakeray, She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir, Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes, Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, The Light of Day by Graham Swift, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin, Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger.
Heroes:
My husband - always in my darkest hour he can make me smile.
