& J: Joshua Bradley: Blog

Category: photography

• The Amazing Chimneys of Leeds

  I’ve always loved the ramshackle ornament of Leeds’ Victorian terraces, the perceptible if slight dissonance between intention and realisation.

  Also I enjoy variant focal depths on reflected objects. So you probably shouldn’t listen to me. Instead, try putting a piece of paper between the above two images, and move your head closer to the screen so [...]

  26 February 2009 | 4 Comments | Read More

• The Three Sluggards

  The king of a country a long way off had three sons. He liked one as well as another, and did not know which to leave his kingdom to after his death: so when he was dying he called them all to him, and said, ‘dear children, the laziest sluggard of the three shall be [...]

  25 February 2009 | 2 Comments | Read More

• Jon Took My Biscuit

  But the evidence is inconclusive…

  17 February 2009 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

• O!Fence!

  There’s a light shining behind the cloth pinned to the steel fence shrouding the work taking place at this overground station in London. I forget where. But I love the folds and curves created in that rectilinear pattern.

  17 February 2009 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

• Hot Dogs & Hamburgers & Kebabs

  OK. So I have two favourite types of lens. I like a lens to either distance me or force me into the proximity of my subject. I don’t think there’s anything strange in finding the latter the more taxing occupation. London teaches us it’s often easier to not interact at all than interact and risk [...]

  24 September 2008 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

• Orientation

  This reminds me of a dream. Do you like Christopher Doyle? I like Christopher Doyle. I saw a film last night, Dumplings, which was quite fun. Certainly sumptuous. It had that disappointing quality where a director/writer seems to pick up a vivid image or allegory, does it, and then still has an hour and a [...]

  22 September 2008 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

• New! Lens.

  It’s been a while since I posted and now everything is new and different, because that’s what happens- that’s how we roll. I have new plans.
  I bought a new prime lens for my camera last week, and I’ve been using it pretty much exclusively since. ‘Prime’ means it is fixed at one zoom position. This [...]

  22 September 2008 | 4 Comments | Read More

• Boom Barcelona!

  So I was in Barcelona last week working with a creative director on a fairly simple portfolio site for him. I say fairly because it was actually pretty complicated as the budget & deadline (a week) were too tight to bring in other people or get any backend framework sorted out. So the whole thing [...]

  21 April 2008 | 2 Comments | Read More

• John & Jehn Photoshoot

  These are from a recent photoshoot for Notion Magazine. The people are a French duo called John and Jehn whos music sounds like a combination of Sonic Youth and this special tune I used to hum when imagining the music of one of my little dogs, Pippen. This dog is now dead, and this alerted [...]

  8 April 2008 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

• Fear of Headphones

  It’s not that I don’t like listening to music: On the contrary it’s because of the music of the world that I object to these things. Why ignore the sounds of buses, birds, air-con systems, the muezzin, beggars, boot-grit, dog-wails, the chattering classes, clattering steel car carcasses, ear-grabs of film music or the passing ill-taste [...]

  31 March 2008 | 3 Comments | Read More

• Vienna

  This city is fantastic- you can smoke inside buildings, after dinner, over a quiet drink, in a hotel room, or even in a dance club- honestly, wherever you might like. Of course, this will soon change, and the war for our lungs and health organisations will see another skirmish concluded in favour of those who [...]

  28 February 2008 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

• The Heavy Photoshoot

  We drove for hours in a fantastic cream Merc from the 80’s. In the safe seclusion of Noid woods, The Heavy, musicians of the best kind, bundled me into the boot. It seemed purpose built- you could have fit 3 people in there- more in pieces. This was all most enjoyable. The band are signed [...]

  28 February 2008 | Leave a Comment? | Read More