Booth Teeth on Flickr.

Back to work after a week working on Work (see below). My teeth are aching.

Back from another day at our (informal) apprenticeship at Amberley Print Rooms. We are classing it as a Stanley James Press Outpost. The man in the picture is called Terry, and, he is one of the best teachers I have ever had. He has a way about him I wish my school teachers had had. I spent most of my day finishing some type setting I’d started a few weeks ago, realising there were still typo’s, old letters that needed replacing and spacing issues. I then learnt how to use a Heidelberg printing press, although I know I have barely scratched the surface. The machine is 60 years old, but works pretty well. It has some amazing design features, like a little indent to measure how much packing paper you need to put in and a safety device that means you can’t get your hands or head mangled in one of the various moving parts.

If you’ve never visited Amberley, the place needs some interested eyes and ears, so please come.

Work - an experimental photographic investigation/publication

Next week, I’m going to be taking part in Matt Westons Publishathon at New England House in Brighton.  The idea is that we publish a load of stuff over five days using the materials and equipment to hand.  Me and Emily are taking the week off ‘Work’ to be involved.  So, it’s pretty fitting that my publication is going to be called ‘Work’.  At the moment, the idea is for me to make a book each day, the contents of which will contain photographs of a single person at work, with maybe a few words.  With my People Who Do hat on, I’m really interested in how and why people do stuff, what makes them work, what people class as work, how they do their jobs, how they fill the large bulk of their time/lives.  These publications are hopefully the start of an ongoing set of books I hope to make over the coming months.

At the moment my daily plan is this:

• Load 2 black and white films from the bulk loader
• Spend up to 3 hours with the worker, taking photo’s of them at work
• Develop the films
• Scan the negatives
• Design and layout the book
• Print a number of copies of the book
• Bind and finish the books
• Sleep

I’ve pretty much covered everything apart from picking the 5 people I will photograph, so, if you know someone that has an interesting or not so interesting job in and around Brighton, and you think they wouldn’t mind me hanging out with them for 3 hours one morning next week, please get in touch.  If you hook me up with someone, I’ll send you a copy of their book.

Hidden in plain site.

(via It’s Nice That : How to hide an aircraft plant - amazing 1940s photos show you how)

I want to ride on this.

(via FFFFOUND! | Tumblr)

The View From Ouchy on Flickr.

Visited Switzerland for the first time. Saw some beautiful sites and met some interesting people. We were very well looked after.