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November 13, 2007

Oi Va Voi @ Cambridge Junction

Oi Va Voi returned to the Cambridge Junction, almost a year since their last gig, but this time touring with their latest, eponymous, album. Performing in the main stage this time, they brought out old crowd-pleasers “Yesterday’s Mistakes”, “Refugee” and “Od Yeshoma”. New favourite “Yuri” made an even bigger impact with the fans in its encore re-playing. As was the case at their last gig, the band had a new vocalist and violinist. Bridgette Amofah seemed like she’d been singing with the band from the beginning, and the new violinist provided yet more anecdotal evidence for my hypothesis that Oi Va Voi’s female violinists are rather photogenic (see photos of Haylie Ecker and Sophie Solomon for further evidence).

Oi Va Voi's new vocalist, Bridgette Amofah

Oi Va Voi's Steve Levi

November 13, 2007

Gil Karpas @ Cambridge Junction

Oi Va Voi returned to the Cambridge Junction, almost a year since their last gig. Again, they were supported by Gil Karpas, who improved upon last year’s great performance with some excellent guitar-playing to accompany his jazzy vocals.

More photos of Gil Karpas, supporting Oi Va Voi @ Cambridge Junction, November 2007 and December 2006

November 11, 2007

Hanukkah Photoshoot

I was commissioned to take a photograph to promote Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, to be used in the Jewish Chaplaincy’s fund-raising campaign. The only catch was that the request came a month before the festival started, so I couldn’t take photographs of the actual celebrations. I gathered a few willing volunteers to light the candles for the camera, the result of which can be seen below, and in the Chaplaincy Board’s campaigns.

November 5, 2007

Cambridge Fireworks on Midsummer Common

Taken from the wonderful vantage point of the Jesus College Boat House – the reflections in the Cam and the stunning compositions make these some of the best firework photographs I’ve taken. Also very helpful was a friend’s tip about setting the camera to bulb mode, so that shutter speeds could be easily adapted as the fireworks varied.

Fireworks

October 31, 2007

KT Tunstall @ London's Roundhouse, Halloween 2007

After a hugely-successful tour of the USA, the multi-platinum-selling artist KT Tunstall is back touring the UK for her second album, Drastic Fantastic, and the highlight of her tour was always going to be playing one of London’s largest venues, and on Halloween. I last had the opportunity to photograph KT on her last UK tour in 2005, also on Halloween. Her die-hard fans also knew that Halloween was the best time to see KT, as she and her band dress for the occasion, with stage decorations to match. Similar to two years ago, KT had “Witch” written across her top, and there were pumpkins, cobwebs and skeletons on stage, with deathly make-up for the rest of the band. For the encore, the whole band came on in Power Ranger outfits, specially imported from Japan, and KT performed a rocking cover of “Walk Like An Egyptian”. Due to the venue’s strict no-SLR policy in the crowd, I was only able to photograph the first three songs.

KT Tunstall's backing singers, Cat Sforza & Gita Harcourt
KT’s new backing singers, Cat Sforza and Gita Harcourt

KT Tunstall

More photographs of KT Tunstall’s Roundhouse concert on CantabPhotos.com

October 20, 2007

Acting Headshots for Hayley

The second headshot photoshoot this weekend, with Hayley, yet another stunning drama student at Homerton, like Rebecca, Megan and Erica. At this rate, I may soon get to photograph every member of Homerton. The photos below may or may not show this, but at times she reminded me of Brigitte Bardot, Farah Fawcett, and Cat Deeley.

Hayley

October 20, 2007

Acting Headshots for Ade

Two more headshot photoshoots this weekend, both postponed from last weekend. First up, Ade, an undergraduate actor at Jesus college. Ade is starring in the ADC late-show this week, “Memory of Water”, which also stars Rebecca Pitt.

Ade

October 7, 2007

Acting Headshot for Dave

The acting headshots I’ve been taking recently have started gathering some attention within the acting community of Cambridge. As Megan and Rebecca are quite central to student drama in Cambridge, several of their peers have noticed the headshot photos I’ve taken of them, and are now asking me to take their headshots. Straight after Rebecca’s photoshoot yesterday, I had another photoshoot with Dave, which was one of the first solo male portrait shoots I’ve done.

Dave

October 7, 2007

Rebecca's Chosen Headshot

Here’s the photo that Rebecca has chosen as her acting headshot. It was one of the colour photos that I shortlisted yesterday, with a little post-processing.

October 6, 2007

Acting Headshot for Rebecca

Another follow-up photoshoot; after my first great photoshoot with Rebecca, she asked me to take some more photos, this time for her new actress headshot. I’m still waiting to hear which photo she’ll choose as her headshot, but the selection below are some of my favourites from the shoot.

Rebecca