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bophoto

tea please bob

About Me

www.bophoto.co.uk

click on the photographs here to view various portfolios

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skype-name is bophoto

portrait
music
travel

bophoto supplies high quality portrait, commercial and editorial photography for magazines, newspapers and other business'. many clients have come from the music industry during the past decade and DJ magazine is the longest standing magazine client. 2006 clients included warp records, dj, the wire and xlr8r magazines, the big chill festival, metro newspaper, and 2020recordings. work has been carried out around the world and editorial commissions have previously been shot in europe, asia and north & south america.

hope you enjoy the photos and please feel free to comment or get in touch. the ones featured below are very low resolution.

external links

'warp works and 20th century masters', cd cover n publicity shots warp 'works' website
in 2006 i kept a PHOTOBLOG FOR XLR8R MAGAZINE, (links below). they 'xlr8' music and culture and initially asked me to do some behind the scenes work on a job, (triptych scotland/neil halistead cornwall), to accompany some print editorial.
A.D.E. - amsterdam, holland
numusic - stavanger, norway
celtronic - derry, ireland
sonar - barcelona, spain
2020 soundsystem - edin / glasgow, scotland
Garden festival - croatia
Seeme - sofia, bulgaria
Triptych - glasgow, scotland

new blogs are uploaded every once in a while.
i have lived in nottingham since 1994. it's a mellow enough place with plenty of creative folk and is surrounded by some of englands best countryside. for more information see leftlion

photo of the week
the low end specialists shot for DJ magazine @ centro fly, new york, 2002.
©bophoto2007

My Interests

music festivals now and then sonar barcelona, celtronic ireland, numusic norway, garden festival croatia, SEEME bulgaria, glade, bang miami, big chill u.k., bestival u.k., glastonbury u.k., s.a.m.c. argentina, tribal gathering, extrema holland, a.d.e. holland, house tourhort beglium, sperm prague, triptych scotland, dedbeats u.k., encompass london, essential london, global gathering, creamfields, copenhagen jazz fest, koneisto finland, sundance estonia, nature one germany, isea, airwaves iceland...

photographers now and then robert frank, seb salgardo, rankin, nick wapplington, don mcullen, tim page, martin parr, werner bischof, josef koudelka, marc riboud, man ray, cecil beaton, steve mccurry, degar, andre kertsz, henri cartier-bresson, robert doisneau, beaumont newhall, bruce chatwin, w. eugine smith, imogen cunningham, ansel adams, willian garnet, chim, jan olafson, robert capa, william fox talbert, herb ritz, richard billingham, paul graham, annie leibovitz, dorthea lange, edward curtis, eadweard muybridge, paul strand and danny newman...

places now and then india, tibet, nepal, america, spain, belgium, norway, estonia, croatia, poland, sweden, france, cesk & slovak rep's, argentina, canada, portugal, greece, italy, ireland, wales, scotland, hungary, bulgaria, germany, ibiza, holland, finland, switzerland, luxemburg...and the isle of white


click on these music festivals as they are good for you

I'd like to meet:

preferably good people who enjoy commissioning and licensing photography for a living, or who create interesting music

Published by,

Vogue, The Guardian, Daily Mail, The Independent, Time Out, Lonely Planet, British Journal of Photography, Big Issue, Jockey Slut, Sleazenation, XLR8R (usa), Urb (usa), DJ, I-DJ, Knowledge, Mixmag, Metro newspaper, M8, Blowback, 69, Groove Attack (ger), Slam (Holland), Echo’s, Ministry, Muzik, Seven, Select, Sky, Club On, BBmag (Eire), Venus (Spain).

to buy artwork, or inquire about commissions, please look here and get in touch.

www.bophoto.co.uk


My Blog

detonate indoor festival, nottingham

detonate did the indoor festival last year using venues like rock city, the rescue rooms, stealth and their outside courtyard, multiple floors and rooms. it was very good. this year was just as energe...
Posted by bophoto on Fri, 11 May 2007 07:43:00 PST

camera review - no. 1

about the price of a roll of film (with developing), the 'innovage mini digital camera' boasts a pop up viewfinder, is the size of a matchbox and is, in a sense, bad enough to be celebrated. it's a ca...
Posted by bophoto on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:08:00 PST

habit, newcastle

habit in newcastle has been steadily nurturing it's reputation for quality for a few years now. tonight they invited desyn masiello and benji b to play at the excellent 'cosmic ballroom'. commissione...
Posted by bophoto on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:25:00 PST

bloc-weekend, pontins holiday park, norfolk

bloc-weekends promoters thought it would be good for 2500 drum and base heads to take over a 1950's holiday camp for three days and they were right.commissioned by dj magazineall photo's are copyright...
Posted by bophoto on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:07:00 PST

myspace 'bleep-bleep' tour, nottingham

the myspace bleep-bleep tour recently visited nottingham with bands 'i say marvin', 'pull tiger tail', and 'ali love'.commissioned by popworld magazineall photo's are copyright protected. no use witho...
Posted by bophoto on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:57:00 PST

spectrum at stealth, nottingham

'spectrum' is already having a good year. they recently celebrated six years and then cleaned up at the breakspoll awards. they won Best Club/Event, best breakthru DJ went to resident hexadecimal and...
Posted by bophoto on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:53:00 PST

move and zyon base at the dungloe, derry ireland

derry has strong links with all kinds of dance music thanks to the efforts of the 'deep fried funk' promoters, and now drum and base is being pioneered in this most musical of cities by global virus....
Posted by bophoto on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:06:00 PST

zoo with psycatron and erol alkin, belfast ireland

erol alkan and psycatron did a great job and the venue (the stiff kitten), with function one system and adjoining restaurant is just superb. big thanks to paul and all at zoo and stiff kitten.psycatro...
Posted by bophoto on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:27:00 PST

tibetan new year

there will be a few celebrating tibetans around at the moment as it is new year (losar) - 18th february marked the beginning of the festival and there will be sore heads for the next month or so. it i...
Posted by bophoto on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:26:00 PST

kissdafunk, leeds

leeds again this week. kissdafunk celebrated their birthday.kissdafunk myspacecommissioned by DJ magazineall photo's are copyright protected. no use without permission. please contact me to buy prints...
Posted by bophoto on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:03:00 PST