Published pieces round up

Here's a round up on some neate photos appearing in a handful of media outlets for their features lately. 

An entirely new contact was made a few months ago with Portland's Eleven magazine who were looking for photos of Explosions in the Sky for their cover feature. Happy to have made their acquaintance and if you happen to be in Portland, you may still be able to pick up a copy that has an interview by Jonathan Fritz along with my photos taken during separate trips to Brighton by the Austin quartet. 

Great fun was had at the beginning of July with the inaugural Raw Power event. London's Corsica Studios were happy for me to capture images of Part Chimp and Teeth of the Sea (above) among others. I then tracked down Rich (formerly of the Line of Best Fit website) and found out he contributes to a new weird music site, the Liminal, who obliged to run a photo feature.

Going back to May, the Great Escape rolled again into town. It's hard for me to be excited about this zombie event though others seemed to like it. On Thursday, I met for the first time Hannah Golightly of Everett True's international website, the Collapse Board, who was excited to see her favourite bands of the moment, Cults (above) and Warpaint on the same night. Apparently ET told her I was an 'established photographer' though as she tells it, maybe she had several photographers on the night as I don't recall meeting nearly as often as she says she did with her photographer. We later teamed up again without meeting on a piece she wrote on How to be a Female Musician Starting Out.

On Saturday of TGE, Mojo invited me to shoot their evening at the Komedia, headlined by the Guillemots (above). They're online review was  repeated in the magazine last month (issue 213) with a small photo of mine of Lanterns on the Lake, who are signed to Bella Union, like their parallel in name label mates, as mentioned above.

In psychiatry news, my report from Ghana for the Royal College of Psychiatrists website went up on their website a month or so ago. I've submitted some other psychiatry pieces lately and will hopefully update with news on them soon. I've also been accepted to start a job in Glasgow later in August and will be moving there when details are confirmed.

Family wise, my nephew Oliver stars with his Mom, Nancy, in this feature and challenge for Rookie Moms.

Lastly super summer festival Supernormal needs your support. Check the link as if you need reminding of why to go! If I'm not in Glasgow by then, at least I'll be Supernormal.

Brighton Flick Book 2009

Old news now but Andrew White, aka Monkey Millions produced the Brighton Flickr Book 2009. On the link you can see the preview and buy the book  directly from blurb if you like. It features a rare Neate double exposure black & white view of King's Road facing the Queens Hotel from 2009.  

Arbouretum at the Jam in the Stool Pigeon

Alternative Neate photo to that appearing in the new issue of The Stool Pigeon with review of the Brighton show by Ben Graham. Eschewing the temptation to capitalise on the Baltimore band's recent referencing of Carl Jung, Ben ensures that all future arbourean metaphors applied towards the band are placed in the shade.

"Arbouretum are appropriately named. Tall and fulsome of facial foliage, the four-piece sway gently upon the low stage like a grove of ancient oaks stirred by a powerful north wind. Bowed low over their instruments, they don't move around much, and they certainly aren;t chatty. But beneath their shady bower, guitar lines twine together like roots burrowing deep into loamy soil, extending and sub-dividing endlessly towards some mythic, primal core." 

Ben Graham - see May issue No. 31 of The Stool Pigeon for full review.

Hate & Gregory reviews

At the London Deanery's The Art of Psychiatry trainee conference in November, I was invited to give a presentation on my placement in Ghana from earlier in the year. At a workshop on Psychiatry and Graphic Novels, Dr Ian Williams facilitated a conversation with Darryl Cunningham and Philippa Perry about their publications, Psychiatric Tales and Couch Fiction respectively.  I later met and discussed with the conference organiser, Stephen Ginn about the comics I'd read while at medical school. 


That led to a commission / challenge to write these 150 word reviews for the London Division of the Royal College of Psychiatry newsletter. Stephen has since been published them on his own dedicated blog The Art of Psychiatry. In case you hadn't seen them there, then read on... 

Hate No. 24 by Peter Bagge 
With its enduring depiction of Seattle’s ‘grunge’ culture, the 1990s serial comic Hate benefitted by association with its location during its first 15 issues. However, when the suburban, slacker everyman, Buddy, returned to live with his family in New Jersey for the next 15 issues, Hate’s slapstick and tragic dynamics expanded to include three generations struggling to live the American dream and with each other.

Psychiatry features most directly in issue 24 when Buddy insists his emotionally unstable girlfriend, Lisa, sees ‘a shrink’ after her latest ‘irrational’ outburst. More of Hate’s stock-in-trade counter accusations follow; ‘You’re the one that’s crazy, not me!’, before Lisa attends a male Freudian analyst and then a female, cognitive therapist. Both are professional but tied to their ‘agendas’ and ultimately unable to overcome her lack of purpose. As Buddy and Lisa drive home after a final revealing joint session, Lisa impulsively suggests they have sex. An exasperated Buddy succumbs and their ‘love’ continues, though this time the reader is spared one of Hate’s graphic displays of tension obliterating intercourse. GN

Issues 1-15 of Hate are collected in Buddy Does Seattle (2005) and 16-30 in Buddy Does Jersey (2007) both published by Fantagraphics Books.

Gregory I-IV by Marc Hempel 
While comic book characters commonly have ‘funny’ shaped heads, Gregory is unique for depicting a mentally disordered, straightjacketed boy whose vocabulary is limited to grunts and shouting aloud his name repetitively. Still despite the unlikely setting for humour of his isolation cell, that doesn’t stop Gregory’s adventures or those of his visiting friend; Herman Vermin, a vain, grandiose, imaginary (or is he?) rat.

The playful use of perspectives, including through Gregory’s eyes, enables readers to experience his tragic and hilarious humanity. Dramatic compression and expansion of the comic strip panels, the four walls of Gregory’s world, reveals him to be both oppressed and contained by his environment. Similarly, despite his ‘helpless’ state, Gregory has a profound effect on those he encounters in this sympathetic portrayal of the tensions and tedium within a psychiatric institution.

Gregory was published as four books Gregory I – IV by Piranha Press and later reprinted in two volumes by DC comics as A Gregory Treasury Vol. 1 & 2 (2004).

Supernormal returning this summer!

Dead excited to hear about the return of Supernormal, coming back to Brazier's Park, Oxfordshire in 19 -21 August 2011. I was only there for one day but came away with some memorable experiences and great prints as below. See you there!

Bong

Mary Hampton

Rex Nemo and the Psychick Selfdefenders

Neate Mogwai print in Fuze magazine

Cheers to Thomas Renz of free German metal magazine, Fuze for asking to use this neate photo of Mogwai for issue 26 (Feb/March2011). You can see the whole magazine here.