JO UNDERHILL / STRUCTURALEYE

Some images from my Beautiful Brutalist project have this week been featured on withinthissilence blog WTS The blog is a great new resource for photographers and definitely worth checking out! Just want to thanks the guys at WTS, the images look fantastic and thanks for the great comments too. Wish them well for the future! The rest of the project can be seen here

In May I was fortunate enough to visit Ceramicist Julian Stair in a Brick Factory in Walsall to photograph him and his assistants working on new work for an exhibition due to open next year. His new ceramics are very large scale pieces addressing the containment of the human body in death. The title of the work is Quietus and the exhibition will include artist made funerary works, from cinerary jars to contain the body's ashes after cremation, to life size sarcophagi for the burial of the fully extended body. It was a great experience to watch and photograph them at work and Julian invited me to his London studio later on in the year to document some of the smaller pieces being made which I'm really looking forward to. I posted a few images back in June but have uploaded more images from this project to my website- Quietus

I started a new personal project at the weekend on a local community garden for bee's called Buzzworks. It's aim is to encourage more bee friendly gardens, educate the local community how vital bee's are to our ecosystem and also teach bee-keeping skills. This is a project I have wanted to do for a while so looking forward to more shoots, hopefully with some late autumn sun and learning a bit more about this amazing creatures. Below are just a few images from the shoot-

A new online magazine for photographers to showcase their work for free has been set up. Take a look at - WTS Great site if you need inspiration or want to promote your own work. The work of Rob Baker Ashton is definitely worth a look.