Photographs by Howard Grey /Blazing Cameras / Howard Grey Photographer /www.howardgrey.com

Malta Girls 1966

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Back to the 60's

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Gordon & Sue Branch c.1973

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Gordon & Derek Branch c.1971

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Howard Grey over at Spitting Images Studios, Whitechapel. c.1988

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Photograph for Triumph Motorcycles Ad. c.1965

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Mother & Daughter

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Cover Up 1979

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Relining Girl 1979

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Knightsbridge, London

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Knightsbridge, London

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Knightsbridge, London

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Knightsbridge, London

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Flash Harry

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Graffitee!

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'Man'

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NightmareMarch2010

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Christian

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'Looking Good'

2009-11-25T18:02:00.006Z

"Well, I never had an even playing field did I , Dad?"

Alfred Grey 1903-1999

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My Dad, Alfred Grey, as he was in c.1975 (1904-1999)

The Man, A Rant, In A Cap

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"Presenting Mistress Domatella"'

2009-11-17T12:44:00.008Z

" I am dominant by nature, with a touch of humanity. I am a strict but sensual Domina. I like contrast in life - for example bitter/sweet, hard/soft, fun/serious, hot/cold. I expect respect and in return I offer you the opportunity to demonstrate your complete devotion to me. My role is to act as the key to unlock your fantasies. Your duty is to allow me to do this. I believe the magical moments are created when there is total trust, creating a unique chemistry." Mistress Domatella

Poser8

2009-10-30T15:27:00.006Z

" .... SO HAPPY TO HAVE MET YOU. GOODBYE!"

SAM BECKETT & MOG MONRO AT THE ROYAL COURT c.1968

2009-10-28T17:57:00.004Z

ALL SHOPPED OUT!

2009-10-25T15:32:00.014Z

"So I says to the supervisor here at the newly opened Anthropologie clothes shop in Regent St, I says, I may be just a mere employee, I says, but I can't help it if my friends phone me at work. After all that's what being of today is all about, I thought...."

ANISH KAPOOR'S 'SHOOTING INTO THE CORNER', Royal Academy 2009

2009-10-20T08:51:00.026+01:00

May I suggest to Anish Kapoor that when he has a moment, he might want to haul this cannon of his to Buckingham Palace - position it on the Victoria Memorial and fire a wax missile or two (or a thousand!!) onto the British Royal Palace's MEAN AND TASTELESS FACADE !!!

From MINIMA to JAGUAR

2009-09-09T10:45:00.018+01:00

Once the most famous art-film venue in central London, The Minima Cinema in London's Knightsbridge became an Indian Furniture showroom. That certain to be doomed enterprise ceased trading after two years with, it is said, only 12 customers striding through it's doors. Now this premium SW1X space has become a Jaguar car showroom!!! From Minima to Jaguar

'THE CLIVEDEN FLYING CLUB'

2009-06-03T15:36:00.021+01:00

'Suave' Photograph of Charles Mosley

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'Shawn and Kat'

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'Nothing is No-Thing'

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Tony's Address Book 1971-2007

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Dinosaur Footprints - Austin, Texas

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'The Eccentricities of The English Man'

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'The Longest Panorama In The World'

2008-11-27T15:37:00.024Z

Photographer Richard Holt, has just spent 3 years taking 4253 photographs of the north bank of the London's River Thames and seamlessly combining them into one 13 metre long image - the longest panoramic photograph in the world!!!
Available now in hardback published by Vianellolibri of Venice. Around £27 from Harrods, Waterstones, Daunts, Hatchards, all good bookshops and in Museums and Art Galleries

Star of TV Show - 'THE MAN IN A HAT'

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Soon to be famous as 'The Man In A Hat', Hugh Bygott-Webb will be the star host in the most unique 'Face to Face' style interview show ever seen on TV. Due to be premiered Spring 2009

A Very British 'Bauhaus'

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This is the great and influential 'before it's time' Isokon Building opened 9 July 1934. Also called the Lawn Road Flats, it's on Upper Park Road, Belsize Park, Hampstead, London.

The flats and particularly the bar became famous as a centre for intellectual life in North London, famous residents included Agatha Christie, and regulars at the Isobar included Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.

'Weary Of Einstein's Theory?'

2008-11-22T16:41:00.024Z

I think Albert Einstein really meant his formula to be this instead! Watch Footage

'Austrian Aristocrat In Our Midst'

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"TONIGHT I WANNA SING THE HOUSE DOWN' - O2

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Sharon Robinson - Vocalist with Leonard Cohen, O2 Arena, London Nov. 13, 2008

'YOU KNOW, I TRUELY LOVE 3/4 TIME" - O2, London

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The legendary Leonard Cohen. O2 Arena, London. Nov.13. 2008

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Even my Minah Bird has left the UK!

.... AND THE SAME TO YOU, MATE!

2008-11-13T11:55:00.009Z

Saw a very happy finance advisor inside the Wilton Arms pub do this lovely 'Fuck Off' piece of calligraphy!

'Toes & Knives'

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My Lucky Daddy Long Legs

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Fossil Daddy-Long-Legs or Harvester. Jurassic 100 million yrs. I found this on Lyme Regis beach Oct 2008. It was just an ordinary pebble I found - nothing on it - until I dissolved the chalk away from it's surface - by immersing it in Viacal solution - and the insect made it's appearance. Sheer luck!

Writer for TV Show - 'ANATOMY OF A PHOTOGRAPH'

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Historian, publisher and broadcaster Charles Mosley. Lit soley by a weak street light some 20 ft away. Eat your heart out analoguists!

2008-10-27T18:02:00.005Z

Work No.850. Martin Creed Exhibit at Tate Britain, London
Martin's work centres on a simple idea: that a person will run as fast as they can every thirty seconds through the gallery. Each run is followed by an equivalent pause, like a musical rest, during which the grand Neoclassical gallery is empty.

This work celebrates physicality and the human spirit. Creed has instructed the runners to sprint as if their lives depended on it. Bringing together people from different backgrounds from all over London, Work No. 850 presents the beauty of human movement in its purest form, a recurring yet infinitely variable line drawn between two points.

One Ichthyosaur Coming Up!

2008-10-25T19:46:00.044+01:00

Part of the spine and the boney eye of a 187 million yr. old Ichthyosaur - Excavated by Mary Anning, 1811 - Lyme Regis, Dorset. Exibit: Natural History Museum, London.

And, if you don't want to get as I did double pneumonia and a slipped disc from finding fossils for yourself, then you can comfortably source your own from the Ukfossils site.

Tongue Twister for MARY ANNING

'She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore,
The shells that she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure
For if she sells sea shells on the sea-shore
Then I'm sure the shells that she sells

Are surely the shells that she found shallowly on the sea-shore.'

Terrance Sullivan, 1908

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During a photographic casting I asked Shona B. to look very upset. Here's what she did.

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'It's just what I do. I've liked the notion of piercing since I was fifteen. I'm covered in rings - silver, gold and I'm saving up to have the one under my nose made of platinum. I hate tattoos - not my do. I like my hair as well. I've forgotten what it's like to have a purely conventional style, although I could look at some old photos I suppose. No, I'm not an old Punk. Admit-tingly I was a Punk once, but I don't have the politics of it anymore. I'm just me now and that's all I want to say really".

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So I was waiting outside the Photographers Gallery and the sun came out. Didn't bother to go into the gallery after getting this shot

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My carving is about half a meter tall and is of high grade marble. It took me about 60 hrs to complete. Takes 3 people to shift it - two to lift and me to give instructions!!!

2008-10-07T16:38:00.007+01:00

One of the extinct volcanos in an Arizona desert. How can any photographer not take this picture? Grabbed on film with a Rollieflex TLR. - through a deep red filter. Easy!

2008-10-06T17:06:00.011+01:00

My 'Desert Island Discs' island would be called Pelican Island. Pelicans are my kind of bird. I even know their Latin name - Pelecanus Occidentalis. And my one luxury item would be a Theodolite

2008-10-06T17:05:00.008+01:00

It was one of those lovely summer Sunday mornings at home. The sun came out and made these reflections onto the side of my bath.

'Hey Gang, Let's Do The Show Right Here!'

2008-10-06T17:04:00.004+01:00

During a recent TV showing of 42nd Street, on TCM, the sun's rays made this oblique design through my living room's Venetian Blinds and onto the screen.

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"This lady was a passenger on a late night Eurostar from London to Paris. All I could see of her was her reflection above me made by the perspex of an over-head luggage rack. I have turned the image upside down then reversed it laterally. She had no idea that I took her picture".

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"These shots are typical of what Getty Images take from me. It's a very tricky task to get imagery that will stand out from the rest of their contributers".

'Marsha' - DLR, London UK

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This shot is of Marsha for Getty Images. Taken with the kind permission of Docklands Light Railway (DLR), London.

'Two Bar Attendants' Carrara, Italy

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Grace & Teresa both work as barmaids in Carrara, Italy. The home and workplace of Michelangelo and where he sculpted 'David'.

'Photo-Fusion' - 2

2008-10-06T16:57:00.010+01:00

This shot of Nathan was achieved firstly by making a realistic layout in the application Poser. Then in the studio, getting him to stand in all 6 positions with lights and tripod locked down. The exposure was identical in each shot so as not to nullify the effect of depth through shadows, mid-tones and highlights. The final combination was achieved through layers in Photoshop. I love this picture!

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These three clever and funny hieroglyphs are on the women's, men's and disabled doors to the toilets at one of the Basuba Eastern style restaurants in Central London, UK. For aesthetic reasons I have changed the colour of these signs from what was acid red to green. I am hating red these days - sorry about that!

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"I've always been interested in how mankind imposes him/herself on the landscape"

Top: White Horse, Wiltshire

Bottom: Eclipse over Stonehenge, Wiltshire

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"This combination image of Keira was made exactly the same way as the one of Nathan (above). Whilst it took a few days to find Nathan for my picture, sourcing a body like Keira's took the best part of two years! I never heard from her again".

2008-10-06T16:55:00.001+01:00

The menu of the Beigel Bake at 159, Brick Lane London. E1 6SB. It's open 24/7. Their b eigels are the cheapest and the best in London. Worth the drive over there at any time of Day or Night. The customers are more insulting then the staff, and consuming more than one beigel at any one sitting is likely to give you constipation - however those aside it's one of the best public Yiddish venues in the country by far. דאָס ייִדישע קול

'Liberty's New Store' - Sloane St. London

2008-10-06T16:54:00.000+01:00

Camilla Grey writes: "Given that - in my opinion - one of Liberty's weakest points is their own label, I'm not quite sure about this new venture. I do, however, 'get' that they evidently had the opportunity to have a presence on one of London's most des-res streets for luxury retailers, right next to one of their main competitors, Harvey Nichols, and they jumped at it. Makes excellent business sense".

'The Cat And The Librarian' Antwerp, Belgium

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Through a bookshop window - Antwerp.

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'The Wave' is a troop of mime-artists who were part of the free attractions at a recent street party in London's Belgravia. They glided over and around the whole event in perceived slow motion, mimicking, to electronic mood music, the motion of sea waves.

'Caffeine Break' - La Brasserie, South Kensington

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'Stag Party' The Wilton Arms Pub - Kinnerton St. - London

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'BEFORE & AFTER'

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A PLAY ON REALITY : The top shot is of my parents celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary; the next down is of my neighbours Davina & Larry Belling (celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary). The two girls in the shot below are both of Camilla, my daughter. On both occasions she was watching TV, wearing the same Japanese Hapi-coat and sitting in the same Ron Arad Twin Rover Seat Chair but 21 years apart in time. Thank you Photoshop CS4! People who know my daughter think this shot is either 'creepy' or fantastic. I think of it as being both!

'Man in Piccadilly'

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Don't know why this is on my Blog, but there are very weird goings on among the elements in it. I'll think more soon!

'Grids'

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Above: Entrance Hall Floor, Tate Britain - London

Above: Tadpoles, Norfolk - UK

Above: Pebble Field, Dungeness - Kent

Above: Tiled Steps, Knightsbridge - London

Above: Antwerp, Belgium

From Blazing Cameras / Howard Grey Photographer

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'Belgravia' - London

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'BEST IN SHOW' Nude Cycle Rally 2008 - Hyde Park Cr. London

'Wedding At Henley'

2008-10-06T16:43:00.001+01:00

I was asked to do something that I cannot bring myself to do normally - and that was to take a wedding. The shoot, one really rainy day on the banks of the River Thames at Henley, was ok as far as wedding shoots go until I snapped this shot. It was a nano-moment in a million. The image appears as if everything was set up - but it wasn't. The shot was originally made in colour, but it appears better here in black+white.

Mog Scott-Stewart - Psychotherapist

2008-10-06T16:42:00.001+01:00

'TROPICAL SPA'

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Nigel Stafford-Clark - Film & TV Producer

Hilary Stafford-Clark - Newspaper & Magazine Editor

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Image for Japan Airlines/Getty. Studio portrait with shoji screen as a Photoshop layer.

Saint-Hill Fashion Show - Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane

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'Lady In RED' - Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane

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'We well know that death shall come
And our future is unknown:
stealthy as a thief he comes
and body and soul he does part
So be of trust and confidence:
Be not too much afraid of death,
For if you fear him overmuch
Joy you nevermore shall touch.'

Polonius in Hamlet

What would you do if you noticed that your mother, father, husband or wife is developing the first signs of Alzheimer's Disease? Here is somebody who has given most of her recent life to the care and love of her mother.

Teresa Cruz Almeida has looked after every aspect of her mother’s care since she lost touch with the world some 12 years ago. Her mother has such severe Alzheimer’s Disease that she is no longer able to communicate to herself and to others. She can do nothing for herself. Teresa sees her mother as living in her own world, catching only fleeting glimpses of the world around her. She has an extremely healthy appetite! Teresa cares for her as she would a small baby.

Teresa hates the way people see her mother as a problem. People think the aged lady would be better off in heaven, but Teresa has chosen to look after her mother and continue her own life looking after paying guests at her farmhouse in central Portugal. Teresa is saddened by those people around her, including her own family, who do not value her mother’s continuing existence. In a way her persistent living and breathing helps us question what our existence is really about.

Update: Teresa's mother has since died. Summer 2009

'Insects in Amber' - 60 million years old

2008-10-06T16:37:00.021+01:00

The one on the left cost me $100 and the one on the right the owners wanted $9000.00. Needless to say I didn't buy it

'5 of 9 Mummified Heads'

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in Private Collection, London

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'Four Old Mannequins at Bletchley Park'

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'PICCADILLY Line' - London Underground

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Anytime now, somebody will come over and stab me!! I just know it.