Avangelist Photography

Taken last month during their support slot for the incredible Here There Be Monsters, Funeral Hag sling mud at you like the sludgiests grind you can handle.

For fans of acts like EyeHateGod, Electric Wizard and Iron Monkey, Funeral Hag really punch all the buttons with a wonderful boomy open guitar sound, gravel-bound vocals, rattling bass and thunderous drums.

For music, dates and more check out the official Funeral Hag myspace page.

Dopefight were noise as fuck. Quite similar to Taint, really infectious groovy riffage with some blistering breaks.

There’s more on Flickr.

Being first on is never easy, its been a long road but Roman Showers are finally installed in the Brighton Metal Scene, with a quite gargantuan sound from a three piece sludge fest.

After 5 months of photographing waste bins, first just in Brighton, then across the country, its time to move on to something fresh.

This is the final shot, taken this week and has a slightly unique element to it, in that it has been the only one which I have really concentrated on capturing. I used a Nikon SB800 flash zoomed to pop the bin out and metered for the sky.

I have had a quite a few emails over the months and just as many conversations with people in the street.

The general response is “I don’t get it, but for some reason I like it”, which is fantastic, I like the fact that I have at the very least captured peoples sense of normal and shaken it a little bit.

There are a few people who have emailed me to say they have started taking photos of bins themselves, but don’t know why, and many more saying how do you end such a massive project like this?

Well I can tell you that when I open up Lightroom, the counter on the keywords tag for bins clocks in at 470.  My mind wanders as I travel to and from my destination my eyes on the search for that all so sweet 6×4x8 coffin on wheels, and it has driven me to traversing the city in different directions and paths every single day, just in case there is one I have not yet spotted and catalogued.

This all started off the back of the Creative Photography course at Garage Studios, Brighton. I cannot thank both Matt Halls and Kevin Mason enough for encouraging me throughout the course, and the dedicated work they are doing to empower both old and new photographers alike.

There are already a few comments on the Flickr page, feel free to join in here or there.

The full collection can be seen here: Trash Flavoured Trash = Trash Flavoured Trash
And a blurb book is now also available. Email me (info@avangelistphotography.com) for details.

My recent review (and debut) for Brighton Source, is now online. Not sure how long it has been up for but it is there nonetheless in all its glory.

Go check it out here http://www.brightonsource.co.uk/index.php/reviews/55-reviews/372-live-ghost-of-a-thousand

You can also see more photos from the show on the Flickr stream