"Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things which manifest the hidden... He who wishes to explore nature must tread her books with his feet." - Paracelsus

"The Amazon River. Puerto Nariño, Colombia"

- 70km in 6 days

- 1 giant lava eaten

- venemous snakes, tarantulas, parrots, grande mariposa, caiman, monkeys, toucans, giant rodents, poisnous toads, glow worms and a plethora of bugs

- approx. 120 mosquito bites

- piranha fishing

- ridiculous amount of rice and beans

- pink Amazonian dolphins
- 1 x Haruki Murakami book read

- night-time censoring in the jungle

- washing in the river

- the murder of Jeffrey!

"An indigenous Community on the Amazon River. Puerto Nariño, Colombia"

"Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be." - Edward Weston

"Dhobi Ghat, Saat Rasta. Mumbai, India." 

"Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"

"Leila Whitehead. Paint Me Happy Shoot. Kettering, UK."

"Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment." - Monet 

"... be curious, be passionate, be scared, be excited, be daring, be challenged, be informed, be yourself. how? travel." - Black Tomato

A mantra I wholeheartedly believe in and one I try to maintain myself...


Black Tomato is a cutting-edge travel company, providing the new generation of hardened travellers with exciting and unique experiences. With an impressive list of awards under their name, they're definitely a young company to watch out for:

• Young Entrepreneur of the Year (The British Travel Industry Awards)
• Best Travel Website (Observer, Guardian; Guardian Unlimited Travel Awards)
• Listed in the The Times top travel websites
• Listed in GQ’s 100 Best Things In The World

Following that accolade, I am pleased to say that I will now be a contributing author for the Black Tomato blog. Writing about my adventures in South America and bringing these articles to life with a selection of my photographs. 

¨Hampi, India¨

12 days... and I will be landing in Colombia to embark on a trip into the Amazon. I will be heading to the Otra Parte reserve and Cerva Viva reserve to live with and photograph Peruvian communities. Whilst also video-recording night monkeys.


The organisation I will be working for is called Entropika and they have just won the Whitley Award for their conservation efforts. 

Please check out the video outlining Entropika's commitments. 

The courageous Dr Angela Maldonado gave up a lucrative career in business to dedicate her life to conservation. A few days later the research centre where she took the monkey before release into the wild was torched by revolutionary guerrillas. Unperturbed she went on to study biology in Britain and now works on the dangerous Colombia-Peru border to stop the removal of an estimated 4,000 wild night monkeys a year for use in biomedical experiments. 

Photos to follow sometime in the future... 

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." - Denis Waitley

 ♥ thank you ♥

"In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized."  - J. Paul Getty

http://blog.metrotwin.com/index.php/2010/06/01/half-term-help-for-londoners/

"I think of photography like therapy. It's something 
I need to do. If I don't take pictures for a month, 
I really miss it."

Harry Gruyaert

¨Suzzy Woozy, London¨

¨Evie'Belle Campbell Johnson, Hertfordshire¨

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

Alice in Wonderland

"The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations." 

- Eli Khamarov

One of my many highlights of Sao Paulo was meeting the wonderful and wise Rodrigo Perez (or better known as Plato!) Rodrigo is a hugely talented photographer, specialising in long exposure pinhole photography. Please check out his set on Flickr - Pinhole Photography. Above are just a couple of my favourites, I love how mysterious and eerie they are. Simply timeless.  

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¨Adrianna Carver, London¨

A dingy room in Bethnal Green, a dressing up box, many a bottle of wine and a life size prawn resulted in the above. To check out more images from the shoot - Shellfish Madness

The beautiful Adrianna will be featuring on the music portfolio of Mr Ed Cox. Check out his work on bigedlove and his awesome band Heads.Hearts. I defy you not to grin when listening to any of their tracks.

¨The Himalayas, Jammu and Kashir, India¨

“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.” – Charles Dickens

¨Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.¨

10 days. counting. 

¨McLeod Gaj, Dharamshala, India¨

a little piece of me... 

¨Leila Dora Whitehead, Kettering, Uk¨

Photography is just another way of keeping a diary.

a visual feast @ KoKo

Studio time with Mr Bruce

http://www.myspace.com/thecorrespondentsmusic

☀ ☀ paint me happy ☀ ☀

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” 

- Coco Chanel

http://www.becauseitsnice.com/2010/03/abbi-kemp.html

¨Paris, France¨

my inspiration: 
- spike jonze
- colour
- haruki murakami
- liberty's window displays
- martin parr
- colleen atwood
- maggie gyllenhaal
- india
- mui mui
- femininity
- peter beard

¨Jaipur, Rajastan, India.¨

No pleasure, no expressions just an illusion of what should of but wasnt.

bRilliAnt
gaga genius

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."

William Butler Yeats

http://barrymag.tumblr.com/#437709952

‘Not another fucking beautiful day’- alice de janze- white mischief

 FASHION LOVES FILM

http://www.dazeddigital.com/Fashion/article/2969/1/Fashion_Loves_Film

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a new york mention:

http://blog.metrotwin.com/index.php/2010/02/19/new-york-moment-on-the-corner/

i've been featured in the practical spiritual magnetics blog! check it out:
http://vlisbet.tumblr.com/post/435599223/purple-memories-5-via-abbikemp

and in Barry Magazine: 
http://barrymag.tumblr.com/page/6#426051079

¨Carla Innocenti, Fulham, London¨

my beautiful mummy

deflated today. need inspiration. 

mert alas & marcus piggott

1940's shoot

Make-up artist - Andrea Innocenti

Model - Cassie Beadle

"love is the real thing, to be happy is to love, love is hope, 'Love is...' is a comic strip, love is the reason to get up in the morning, love makes your tummy feel funny, love is an adventure, love makes you act stupid, love lights the world..." - i-D

our secret beauty shoot

where i'd like to be.

this makes me happy

¨Hvar Island, Croatia¨

"But this is perhaps my favourite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is plenty of danger. And it might make us lose some sleep from time to time. But enjoy it. Life goes on." 

♥ in Paris

"to be lovesick, to be nowhere,"