So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away

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Portrait Salon

Portrait Salon goes north, following the initial screening, & launch of the Portrait Salon newspaper, at the Roxy in London in November.  

The newspaper includes the final portrait selection along with texts by Wayne Ford & Miranda Gavin - available to buy for £2 from Metro, Silverprint, Hotshoe Gallery and Underground Gallery in London.

Congrats to Carole & James for making such a success of this great project (and thanks for choosing my pictures!).

Private view for ‘So the Wind Won’t Blow…’, 3rd November 2011.  Images by Tom Groves, courtesy of Whitechapel Gallery/Time Out First Thursdays.

After a packed-out private view, our show at East Gallery in Brick Lane was bustling throughout the weekend, with well over 1000 visitors.  Thanks to all involved, to everyone who came along and for all the interest.  See you next time…

Intoxica Records

A quick plug for one of the best-looking, best-stocked record shops in London (they’ve got a whole section for Cal Tjader, e.g.).  Thanks to Debbie Smith for being a cool and patient host and model for my stereo photo-shoot there yesterday.  You can see the results on display at East Gallery (see below) from Thursday 3rd November.

Website

… It’s almost as new as this blog, and a bit skeletal right now, but it’ll grow just as soon as I get used to the idea of it being there …

portrait Salon

Yesterday I heard that two of my portraits have been selected for Portrait Salon, a (slightly tongue-in-cheek?) selection of some of the 6000 or so rejected entries from the Taylor Wessing/National Portrait Gallery annual show.  There’ll be a printed newspaper of the selected (nee rejected) images to accompany the projected show - details here: http://portraitsalon.tumblr.com/

Lewis Durham at Riflemaker, London, April 2011.  

Lewis Durham at Riflemaker, London, April 2011.  

Up-coming Show

I’ll be showing a new set of music-themed stereoscopic portraits here.  (Let’s call them work in progress.)  I’m really enjoying shooting for this, and the subjects include Lewis Durham (Kitty, Daisy & Lewis) - pictured above - in his vinyl-cutting HQ above Soho’s Riflemaker gallery; Liam Watson (producer extraordinaire) at Toe Rag Studios; Johnny Vercoutre at Time for Tea.  The show runs from Friday 4th to Wednesday 9th November.  All welcome at the private view on Thursday 3rd, 6pm-9pm.

(A note on the name: So the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away is named after the 1982 novel by the inimitable Richard Brautigan.  Already earmarked as the name for this blog, it seemed an even better match for this exhibition of photography, so…).