new website

here's a new site for my photography.

http://www.georginacook.com

a few glitches to sort out but nearly there.

Bye bye MAH :(

MAH by name, Ma by nature; if anyone's held the growing dubstep scene tightly in her arms, fed it, nurtured it and helped it grow big and strong, it's Lady Mary Anne Hobbs. Sad to hear that she's leaving BBC Radio 1 after so long... good luck to her in the rest of her prolific outputtings ....

Her last show on BBC Radio1 will be broadcast:
September 8th>>9th … Wednesday night >> Thursday morning… 2-4am

www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs

Thank you so much for listening..

Ce Jour La

Reading Willy Ronis' Ce Jour La (in French I must add!)- beautiful black & white photos of Paris and other parts of Europe; they inspire me to go out on the streets more often capturing. Whilst I am largely a candid photographer of the same school of thought as Ronis (I guess) I still have a desire to make portraits yet still haven't gotten over my dislike / fear (whatever it is) of approaching strangers and asking for photos as for example Oleg Tolstoy (thanks to Foreign Beggars for linking to this guy on their facebook).

That said, I do feel myself getting closer and closer to people, barriers stretching and if I could speak the language, I think there'd be little problem. So here's hoping that my next visit back to London (soon!) will be fruitful in terms of street portraits.

In the meantime; here am I back in Paris after 2 weeks in the French countryside where I learnt how to eat properly, sitting on a wall at Hotel De Ville waiting for a friend and watching the world go buy. At this time of year, the Parisian world is largely non French and ever so slightly quieter.

this looks strangely as if the lady has been cut out and put there

In the mist

more Paris pics in my City of Light Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drumzofthesouth/sets/72157623525710438/

Love at first sight

And I'm experimenting with Black & White again

Goodz is back!

Download his new album for free from his site:

http://www.therealdurrtygoodz.com/

Jamaica + Real HipHop + suprises

Foreign Beggars

There was this MC on stage at the end of the last night of Sonar at first he was shouting a bit and I wasn't too keen; then he started bubbling, riding the beats. He was brilliant and I said so to Claire & TomDodd who informed me that he was Pavan from Foreign Beggars (who I'd sort of heard of); and that he'd played their night Plat Du Jour a few times. So I grabbed a couple of photos of him for them which meant luring him to the front of the stage with a couple of come here hand gestures; he subtly slinked to the front of the stage; I snapped then he slinked back. After the gig we all hung out of a whole 36 hours or so; and I've since had the pleasure of seeing Foreign Beggars live at Point Ephereme in Paris. It was like an explosion in a fireworks factory or something like that- as such I'm not at all suprised that they've been nominated for the Best European Hip Hop Award as part of the UMA's.

Look out for their Beggatron Remixed EP dropping soon (I was lucky enough to get a sneak-prehear and it's dope) ; in the meantime you can hear some great Foreign Beggars mixes here.

Photos by the fantastic Mar-One

Yult & Tanya Auclair

http://www.myspace.com/yultkoldmane

Was invited to this gig by Tom Yult who was performing with Tanya Auclair at the launch of this year's Offf festival. Great stuff; Tanya's got a beautiful voice and powerful lyrics.

Subeena

Here are a couple of photos from an impromtue shoot with Subeena back in June who for the record is starting a new label called Opit Records; is singing on her tracks and has had one of them (Picture) included on the fabulous Surgeon's mix for Fabric.