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Two Times Intro

It hasn't been too long since We Sink Ships launched its first exhibition in Talvi / Winter.  From the very beginning, Heidi and I had always planned to follow We Sink Ships' first exhibition with a bigger collaborative effort involving many other photographers.  We only ever really had one subject in mind.  Music.

Before We Sink Ships was born, Heidi and I were part of an aborted blog project called Access All Areas.  The premise of the blog was to bring gig photographers together and share their work in an online journal.  It never took off.

Instead, though, when it came time to put together the music exhibition, we talked to our friends and approached the photographers involved in AAA and everyone wanted to be part of it.



We launched the exhibition a week ago and are very proud of it.  In complete contrast to Talvi / Winter in which the photographs were solemn, still, occasionally desolate; the photographs exhibited in Two Times Intro exude movement and energy.  Andrew Moore's photo of Eagles of Death Metal, for instance, stops time but you experience the motion none-the-less.  John Linton's liberal use of motion blur in his photo of Black Lips throws the viewer into the front row as the audience bounce all around.  It is certainly well worth having a look.

I hope you enjoy it.  Two Times Intro will be online and found at wesinkships.co.uk until 17th May 2009.

Talvi / Winter

In May of last year, my friend Heidi and I started a collaboration that after false starts, missed deadlines and some interesting experiments, is finally taking shape.

We named the collaboration We Sink Ships and as the project was born of a mutual appreciation of photography and music, we decided to use pinhole and selective focus photography while also experimenting with ambient sounds and music that might fit alongside the visual work.  Since May we have also been posting online a 30 - 40 minutes worth of a music mix created by either one of us and hope to announce some occasional live DJ gigs in the coming months.  Not to be stopped there, since May - after a few years hiatus - I began to write music again and the results have become the musical output of We Sink Ships.

Of course, the project is mainly photographic in nature and so Heidi and I were delighted, and somewhat relieved, to announce our very first, online, exhibition hosted on the We Sink Ships website.

The exhibition is called Talvi / Winter and will run on our website until the 3rd of May 2009.  I hope you might take some time to visit the exhibition and come back here to comment.

You can visit the exhibition here