while it rained out there

It was time to put the old boozer to good use again after the Outside/Festival. So here continuing to my chronicle and cooperation with Jelly and their monthly appointments with 3rd Thursday, the old pub became an open stage on the street with local band You Have Spoken and music charity Readipop performing for the people to celebrate the town musical creativity.
All of this while a heavy rain battered outside, in one of the wettest days of the year.
More about this event and Jelly here.

ye olde grubby boozer

.... i.e. great community spirit.
Those creative and inventive people at Jelly have recently managed to secure a great space to be used as community art space in the centre of Reading. However the place required a bit of scrubbing and several retouches and more nips and tucks here and there. Their request for help raised the attention of several people who through social media spread the message to an even bigger audience. Many people  turned out to help bring the place up to working standard ready to host the Outside/Inside Festival in July and many more art and community events in the following months

the flutter of the butterfly

As one of my latest assignments I was lucky to work on a project for the new website of the Patchwork Butterfly owned by Lisa-Marie Gibbs, a talented and inspired artist and designer of beautiful things all handmade, based in Reading. These are the kind of assignments that photographers love when there is a connection, communication and understanding with the interlocutor and for the whole time I was immersed in a world full of inspiration that I aimed to capture on film.

food chain

Last weekend an interesting event took place in the town centre of Reading: Eat Reading, a programme of food, drinks and cooking events. What I found interesting was that alongside some chain names there was a strong presence of local and independent restaurants offering their food and tasters to the people attending and live demonstrations. It was a great use of the town centre space bringing the community together and in direct contact with those that often in the homogeneous sameness of the food offers of high streets of town centres offer an alternative and an option.
I thought of them as a gang, a local food gang and their mugshots were there, waiting to be taken.