quiet corners | paul gonella

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Erik Hedman

I was lucky enough to get a look through 'A Celebration of Skateboarding and DIY' the other day, it's an awesome lofi photography book by the very talented Swedish photographer Erik Hedman. The book mixes black & white photos of friends (including the mighty Love Eneroth) setting up sketchy build it yourself street spots out of old bits of wood and discarded rubbish with full colour skate photos of the resulting spots getting shralped, all wrapped up with a foreword by Rich Holland from the Side Effects of Urethane collective. Even the cover is soaked in skateboarding with unique markings painted by the wheels of a board. As well the book Erik's website endoflage.com has some great skate and half-frame photos too. Check a couple of pics of the book and a couple of photos from his site as a taster...

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Danny Way

Scanned some negatives of Danny Way taken a little while ago...

I shot some video that day too, watch...

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Photographer Worship

I've just added a pile of links to some of my all time favourite photographers on the friends page, get clicking!

This photo is by Neil Blender, i wish i could find a pile of his photos from the mid 80s that were run in Transworld somewhere on the internoodles. oh well...

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Andy Simmons

Fellow London photographer with a love for skateboarding and overhead powerlines Andy Simmons has been a big blip on my radar recently. Give yourself half an hour and check Five Point Six for a heavy dose of his awesome work and travels. Check the following as a taster:

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Super8

I've updated the bio page with some super8 film projects i've worked on in the last couple of years. As well as the previous collaborative projects with dist.one i've added a brand new film i recently completed which is a collaboration with Russell Cowling called 'Winter Sun', a reworking of super8 film previously compiled for the 'Lately' video/dvd we worked on in 2005. I'm currently filming a load of super8 at the moment for another upcoming project, more details soon...

Friday, July 13, 2007

Curb Detritus

At the start of this year i began a little project of taking photos of some of the detritus washed up in the gutter from traffic, people and the weather. I've just added the photos to a curb detritus set on my Fickr.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Local Spots...

Had some fun skating some local spots last night with some friends and also taking a few photos and some super 8. Ray and I both had a go with Gorm's camera setup and i managed to take a snap of him tailtapping and Ray captured Gorm's frontside ollie. Gorm then took a photo of me scratching my tail. Check Gorm's photography at www.gorminator.com, some awesome photos on there. A Gorm/Quiet Corners collaboration zine is in progress at the moment, more details soon...

Monday, July 09, 2007

We Are Homegrown

Due to a multitude of excuses ranging from my general laziness to my partial retardation it's taken me a while to add we are homegrown to my friends links, more fool me as loop's photos kill it. Have a look for yourself and maybe you'll add it to your daily dose bookmarks like i have. Here are a few examples...

New Coast Photos

Some digital photos have been added to the coast gallery. More to come later this week...

Friday, July 06, 2007

New Push Photos Added

Some new skate photos have been added to the Push gallery including this one of sandy skating an old locker at one of the few dry spots in Colchester...