JO UNDERHILL / STRUCTURALEYE

At the beginning of this month I had great pleasure working again with ceramic artist Amy Jayne Hughes photographing her new work which will be exhibited at London Design Festival and Britsih Ceramics Biennial . At the moment Amy is undertaking a residency at the V&A Museum and the ceramics workshop was the backdrop to the shoot which was a great space to photograph in and highlight the new work. The work explores the idea of the handmade with the 'factory-made' so we wanted to set the ceramics in-situ to where they had been made. It was a great shoot and I always really enjoy collaborating with Amy. The London Design Festival runs from 19-27 September and the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke is on from 26 September - 8 November.

I am pleased to announce that prints of my work are now available to buy through TheHub. I have a selection of photographs from my on going Beautiful Brutalism project available to buy from my gallery here . A selection of my architectural photography is also available from my print gallery .

Last month I was back in Copenhagen for a few weeks enjoying celebrating Midsummer or St Hans day as it's called and photographing some interesting projects. It was great to see a lot of construction being undertaken within the city centre. One project by Olafur Eliasson a Danish-Icelandic artist, is a new pedestrian and cycle bridge called Cirkelbroen which spans Christianshavn Canal and will connect the Christiansbro area with Applebys Plads. The bridge consists of five staggered circular platforms of various sizes, each with its own mast which relates to the areas canal history. The bridge will offically open on 22nd August. The Bryghus designed by OMA construction was also well underway and is due to open in 2017. It is a multi purpose building that will house the Danish Architecture Centre, restaurants, homes, offices and playgrounds. It is situated on the harbour front close to Langebro and just up from the Black Diamond. I'm looking forward to going back and ...

One of the installations at this years Clerkenwell Design Week was created by Swiss-studio GRUPPE . Briefed to re-evaluate the boundries and gateways of Clerkenwell, GRUPPE found that it's shape resembled that of a Roman city. Using materials from Marley Eternit's EQUITONE facades range GRUPPE created a number of structures to mark the gateways' to Clerkenwell. I really enjoyed photographing this project and getting a sense of each different area of Clerkenwell the structures were placed in so I was really proud to see online architectural magazine Dezeen ran a story on this installation and a selecton of my images were used. The article and my photographs can be seen here . To view photographs from the whole project please visit my website .

This year I was pleased to be commissioned to be one of the official photographers for Clerkenwell Design Week. It was a fantastic few days and below are just a few highlights from the festival - To view more images, please visit my website .

This month Ceramic Review magazine has had a 45th Anniversary redesign and looks great. There is a really interesting feature on ceramicist Helen Beard which includes a portrait I took when I visited Helen in her studio in Craft Central, Clerkenwell. It was lovely meeting Helen and the shoot was really enjoyable so it's great to see my portrait being used. The layout of the feature is fantastic and my portrait really compliments the detail photographs. I still love it when I see my work in print!

This month is was great to see my photograph in a lovely new book by Oliver Dupon , Encore! The New Artisans which profiles over seventy artisans who craft handmade objects. The book features ceramicist and illustrator Amy Jayne Hughes who I have worked with as part of Manifold . I photographed Amy at work in the studio and below you can see the image used and the image in the context of the book. It's great to see my photography in such a beautiful book and so pleased it has a great feature on Amy who is a fantastic artist. To find out more about the book please visit Thames & Hudson Publishing.