vicki couchman PHOTOGRAPHER

the overtones - band published in The Lady

2012-02-05T12:49:00.000-08:00

http://www.lady.co.uk/sing_us_ol_fashioned_love

Anthony Andrews

2012-01-29T15:18:00.000-08:00

http://www.lady.co.uk/birdsong_brideshead_40_years_marriage

Anthony Andrews at the Ivy London Uk

Merry Christmas - stop frame card

2011-12-13T12:05:00.000-08:00

Home made, stop frame Christmas card made with love not trees

Dawn Mist and fallow Deer, Petworth Park Sussex

2011-10-02T12:58:00.000-07:00

Vintage festival - Fashion photobooth

2011-08-11T04:34:00.000-07:00

Amusing selection of images taken from a 3 day photobooth studio shoot at Vintage Festival 2011 in the Style Studio, on the top floor of the Royal Festival Hall London

Gareth Thomas - Welsh Rugby Player for The Sunday Times

2011-05-17T06:17:00.000-07:00

Gareth Thomas - Welsh Rugby Player

Playright Mark Ravenhill - The Coronation Of Poppea - Culture

2011-05-17T05:21:00.000-07:00

Mark Ravenhill in the Kings Head Islington

DJ Jane Fitz

2011-05-02T04:00:00.001-07:00

School Girls and designer Bags - Style Mag

2011-04-26T05:40:00.000-07:00

Rajiv Menon QC

2011-04-08T11:40:00.000-07:00

Zippos Circus backstage for The Lady Magazine

2011-04-07T12:40:00.000-07:00

Retrospective

2011-03-23T16:15:00.000-07:00

Portraits

Berkshire beater

Legend DJ Derek, 333 Club, Hoxton

Halloween Dalston High Street

Mackenzie Crook, The Langham

Corinne Bailey Rae, Hospital Club

Mitchell and Webb, Kilburn

Sophie Ellis Baxtor, Forty Winks

Fleur Britten, Vintage Tea Party

AAGill and Heston Blumenthal 6am Smithfields

Reportage

Bert and Dolly still in love, live on a Houseboat in
Bembridge Harbour, IOW

                                 A Woman stands naked, in a paint bath and showing
                                    scars from a double mastectomy.
                                    Burning Man Festival Nevada, USA

Warwick Avenue Cabbie Shelter,
one of 13 remaining in central London

Lawn services advertised beside an overgrown garden
still abandoned 5 years on, after Hurricane Katrina

Moments after a birth, Chelsea and Westminster,
NHS 60th Anniversary

Margate, Kent

Siblings hold the Bible together during the Funeral
of their Ghanaian Mother, London

A participant is ready for combat during the Ivrea Orange Festival, Italy

Light installation by Anthony McCall
at the Serpentine Gallery London

Swingstock Festival, Wisconsin, USA

Halloween

2010-11-09T02:40:00.000-08:00


Halloween madness seems to have really taken over the streets of London. Last year I found myself in Dalston surrounded by ghosts and ghouls in large numbers, so there and then decided to return a year later with my camera and do a series of portraits. The following images are from around Shoreditch and Dalston taken on the eve of Halloweeen.

Hurricane Katrina 5 years on, Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans

2010-11-08T09:00:00.000-08:00

The humidity of New Orleans means the grass and weeds grow fast. Signs advertise lawn care for abandoned plots.

Five years on from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the worst affected area - the Lower 9th Ward - is still struggling to thrive. The barge which broke loose of its moorings that fateful day demolished the district's levee taking people's lives and homes with it. The area has failed to fully recover. The neighbourhood roads are partly overgrown with weeds and reek of abandonment.

Yet an odd sight meets visitors to the area. Juxtaposed with these vacant lots are some of the most hi-tech eco houses in America. These storm-proof, sustainable homes are winners of the platinum award for green design. They're the result of the intervention of actor Brad Pitt, who was so moved by the devastation that he formed the charity 'Make It Right'.
He appealed for help from international architects to design safer houses. They responded - mostly pro bono - and the result is contemporary dwellings which seem plucked straight from the pages of the glossiest archtiecture magazines. Yet while tourist buses roam the streets, the district has had less success in attracting former residents back to the neighbourhood.
The scale of destruction, the death of loved ones, the threat of another disaster: these have all prevented people from returning. Those who do, are no doubt encouraged by the cutting-edge design of the re-builds and reassured by their technological advances as safeguards against another Katrina hurting them again.
The Lower 9th Ward is now an incongruous mix of the most modern, contemporary architecture and sad neglect. The struggle to encourage former residents to return is sweetened by the extraordinary architecture, but winning the hearts and minds of these traumatized residents is still proving to be a long-term project.

One of many overgrown properties left and abandoned and engulfed in creepers.

Dilapidated houses fall rapidly into decay without regular maintenance.
They stand in stark contrast to the lovingly restored homes next door.

Some houses are so overgrown with neglect they are almost completely swamped by weeds.
Signs advertising gardening services are common.

Local resident Jeanette Williams stands in the doorway of her home which has been repeatedly vandalized since the floods.

9th ward resident Jeanette Williams inside her home, which has been newly decorated but since vandalized and her heating system ripped from its cupboard.

Vandals repeatedly attack JW's newly restored home to get to the copper wiring, which is then sold on the black market.

Michael, from a Christian volunteer group, Faith Bible Church in Sliddell, Louisiana, surveys the work still to be done.

Breaking point of the Levee. As Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, the waters rose rapidly,
causing a barge to break free of its moorings destroying thousands of homes in its path.

Memories to those who lost their lives in the Lower 9th Ward are still tangible. Memorials mark the corners of many streets.

For the authorities, acquiring the rights to the land in order to build is another problem.
Many fled to Texas to seek work and safety elsewhere,
but records of ownership are complicated and some people have never returned, nor are likely to.

One of a 150 sustainable, affordable, storm-resistant homes built for residents who lost their properties to hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Monique,16 in front of the sustainable, storm-resistant home she shares with her family, built by the 'Make It Right' foundation.
The charity was set up by the actor Brad Pitt to provide green, safe housing for residents who lost their homes.

Words By amanda.bluglass@gmail.com

Heston Blumenthal and AA Gill - Talk meat 6am Smithfields for Style The Sunday Times

2010-11-08T04:06:00.000-08:00

I sometimes wonder why the best shot isn't used - my preference would have been the shot below

Gemma Soames tests the Dukan Diet for Style Mag The Sunday Times

2010-11-07T04:01:00.000-08:00

I always feel disappointed by a design crop when I have taken so long to set the frame up - as shot below.

Mitchell and Webb - shot for the Sunday Times

2010-08-26T23:51:00.000-07:00

Gok Wan - preparing for a show - Style magazine

2010-08-25T23:58:00.000-07:00

The Great British Bake off - BBC TV series Promo Pix

2010-08-25T23:45:00.000-07:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/aug/18/lucy-mangan-tv-review
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00thy5q/The_Great_British_Bake_Off_Episode_1/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7950624/The-Great-British-Bake-Off-BBC-Two-
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv-entertainment/tv/todays-tv/2010/08/17/the-great-british-bake-off-bbc2-8pm-115875-22492330/

Corinne Bailey Rae

2010-08-25T16:02:00.000-07:00

Ben Eines - Shot for The Sunday Times

2010-08-25T04:46:00.000-07:00

Street Artist Ben Eines shot in East London in front of his work, which dominates the area and shop front shutters on Middlesex Street.

Ben Eines signs autographs for two fans - having interrupted my shoot, the POLICE OFFICERS didn't seem to mind I was parked on double yellows!!

Rave New World - Published Sunday Times Style - 22nd Aug 2010

2010-08-24T05:44:00.000-07:00

Jo Wood at home for the Sunday Times

2010-08-20T05:07:00.000-07:00

Sunday Times Style - Proms Feature published 25th July2010

2010-08-19T15:07:00.000-07:00

Sunday Times Style - Sophie Ellis Bextor /Vintage Patisserie Feature published 18th july 2010

2010-08-18T15:09:00.000-07:00

http://cordeliaweston.blogspot.com/

http://www.vintagepatisserie.co.uk/
http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/promotions/jacques-garden-party/jacques-chic/what-is-the-jacques-townhouse

RYAN AIR MAGAZINE JUNE-JULY 2010 - RIGA / LATVIA

2010-08-18T15:00:00.000-07:00

Ryan Air Magazine published JUNE /JULY ROVINJ CROATIA

2010-08-18T14:53:00.000-07:00

Canon Tutorials - The Assignment / films

2010-08-18T02:48:00.000-07:00

The following Canon tutorial films were made for an online competition aimed at amateur photographers which has now finished. The twelve, 2 minute films, which feature me, Vicki Couchman and my two students Benjamin and Magda, have been split by four destinations across Europe to highlight the four separate categories on the dial of the Canon camera.

Portrait / Macro / Landscape / Sport

Ivrea - Portrait

St Moritz - Sport Briefing

Sport - Tutorial

Sport Crit

Bratislava - Landscape Briefing

Landscape Tutorial

Landscape Crit

Cuenca _ Macro Briefing

Macro - Tutorial

Macro Crit