new website

here's a new site for my photography.

http://www.georginacook.com

a few glitches to sort out but nearly there.

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

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.

Messy

This is modern day d**step:

louder, prouder, internatty, bigger, bolder, circus tents, bubble guns, hundreds of cameras; DJs pon the mic

Loefah & Benga @ Cabaret Sauvage, Paris April 2010 filmed on my broken camera phone

Festivaaaaaal!!

Just back from a ridiculously good Glastonbury this weekend and haven't even managed to blog about the ridiculously massive Sonar yet (last weekend); Feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants which oughta be Orange & White and emblazoned with the name Ryan as an homage to my pilots. The music in the head is undeniably Ravey; 90s resurgance? Yes please.

Little time to breathe in this unusually humid June weather; I think I have a June bug...I JUST WANNA DANCE. So until my heart stops beating so fast and I find time to update more thoroughly; I am leaving you with these photo galleries from Sonar via FACT magazine:

http://www.factmag.com/2010/06/22/photo-gallery-sonar-part-1/

http://www.factmag.com/2010/06/23/photo-gallery-sonar-part-2/

and point those of you who don't blink too often towards my Twitter; Soundcloud and Facebook pages which track my recent movements and memories and currently feelin's through smaller byte-sized Tapas innit.

New Slideshow: Eyes Open [Remains of the Day]

Was invited by Liz Eve to participate in Bristol's Photo Night of the Year on the Christmas Steps. Couldn't pin-point a subject but my feelings were something to do with survival, something to do with freedom; something to do with the everyday; something to do with seeking, something to do with looking at the world through the eyes of an alien;

I started making this with the lights off listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor; until it hit me that Vex'd's music would be even more suited. Jamie (Vex'd) was kind enough to send me a few tunes to chose from; Remains of The Day stuck.

Take a look at Liz's slideshow too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjmqniU32CM

Completely coincidentally we both chose music by Vex'd.

Me @ Christmas Steps

If you're in Bristol this Saturday get yourself down to The Christmas Steps for "The Photo Night of The Year," organised by fellow photographer Liz Eve (Fotohaus) http://www.christmassteps.co.uk; both of us are showing slideshows which completely coincidentally have soundtracks by Vex'd.

History is Made At Night

Thanks to History is Made at Night for a sweet mention within a post on his excellent blog about the amazing photographer Chris Steele Perkins . Also take a peek at this Dancing questionnaire that I did for the blog a while back.

Let them eat cake

Back in France...

J'adore le Samedi

West Norwood Cassette Library

www.myspace.com/westnorwoodcassettelibrary

More to follow.

Photography, you are lost until you are HOME

Does the bird ring for you in the ears?

I am Princess Here-Again-On-A-Rock. and the sounds lull me to peace. Hear my own silence. back to the rumbling of the buses.

Photography, you are lost until you are HOME.

Poetry be my voice; sing to the setting sun in the corner of the pillow

The line in the middle - cross it. One needs nothing but eyes and ears.

The Ivy House

The weekend just gone I was back in LDN again and my eyes were 21 again. I stay at my parents and try to catch up with everyone; Franck and I went to the relaunch of The Ivy House. It's gonna be South London's sikkest venue this summer; I can feel it. I had the pleasure of being serenaded by a very drunk Dave from Rum Shebeen (formerly The Ludes). He stood right in front of me with his leg on a chair; and told me that Jesus gets all the pussy.

Here he is with the magnectic Leo who makes all of me want to be 21 again:

The night after DMZ 5TH BIRTHDAY

I was back in London for the weekend. I barely slept. I used my analogue camera with expired film. Sky & Liam and the Harpers Crew had an awesome house party cos Liam is off to dance naked with blonde ladies in Sweden for a year or so. Sky was like... "Georgie can you sort out a DJ?" "Well Sky, you're in luck," I replied... It's DMZ weekend; there are hundreds of them buzzing around South London. So DQ stepped up; and Orson and Isabella and Delphine and Pavel and Pokes came along; and of course all my hippy friends were there already. I like it when my various little worlds collide; bringing people together is what I'm good at, it makes me feel happy. The pix aren't that strong but warm at least.

Pretty Lady

Boris woke up in China, went on Skype and partied with us in Norwood

DQ in the House with a mind-blowing Hip Hop selection.

Analogue Dreamz

These pix are from Secret Garden Party a few years ago; taken on a disposable camera that came free with the Guardian. It's probably the only reason I bought it. I don't care much for newspapers.

Underground Stories

France makes me horny

I need to stop reading Anais NIn