This weekend we were invited by the Metropolitan Police to attend the Hackney & Tower Hamlets Charity Cup event they had facilitated at Stoke Newington High School. The event saw 16 teams compete at 7 a side football to take out the cup.
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Knife crime is all over the press – and we’re shocked, but sometimes it’s hard to imagine what life on the street looks like and what choices young people have to make on a constant basis. Today I had the privilege of meeting former boxer James Cook (MBE) who runs the Pedro Club in Hackney. He works directly with young people to help them build skills and create positive paths in life.
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How a trip to the butchers left me with more than just a leg of lamb and a very Merry Christmas. It has become a fun tradition in my family to jump in the car around three days before Christmas and do all of our festive food shopping as a family. Yes, we are that last-minute family right here! By 11 am we had almost completed our list with just one item left to Purchase…the meat! With no surprise our usual, much loved butchers in Tufnell Park had formed a queue spanning what looked like half a mile down the street.
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Life on the Edge has been in development for a couple of years. Behind the scenes I’ve been working to reach out to community organisations, take some initial photos and build a team. A year ago I did the first photo shoot with skateboarder Helena Long in Stockwell Skate Park. It was a beautiful sunny day, and Helena raced, jumped, flew across the park as if she was part of the landscape.
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I’ve always been fascinated in photographing movement and dance. What intrigues me is how the spirit is somehow released to fly in movement – it’s like watching magic. When I take pictures that sense of magic is what I’m searching for, trying to catch the moment where the movement in the image touches our own sense of inner freedom – where we too can do anything, be anyone.
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Liquid Heat opened in RAW SPACE, Harlem as part of the Harlem Havana Festival – that celebrates the cultural links between Harlem and Havana.
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Today was the performance for the kids programme – Ritmo y Color, the free week’s summer camp for local children that ran as part of Liquid Heat.
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Liquid Heat opened in Casa Guayasmin in Havana today! I created a series of life size images of Cuban Popular dance – a vibrant sweep of colour and movement that went around the patio walls of Casa Guaysamin.
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Today I went to Museo Casa Guayasamin to measure up the space for the Liquid Heat exhibit. Casa Guayasamin is an old colonial building in La Habana Vieja, formerly the studio of painter Oswaldo Guaysamin and now museum to a large collection of his paintings.
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