Ali Lochhead

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Ali Lochhead

Ultimate Performance Coach · Speaker ·  Writer

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Ultimate Performance Coach · Speaker ·  Writer ·  Researcher

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Apr 14, 2018 | blog, diary, love, romance

Diary

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Making a Billboard

Making a Billboard

Apr 13, 2018 | blog, diary, photo shoot, photography

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Making a billboard

It’s on some list of things to do before I die but making a billboard is not a box I’m likely to tick so I ignore the email when it arrives, inviting me to apply to be featured in an Airbnb campaign, assuming it’s a mass mail. It takes a while for me to realise it’s for real and I still think I’ll get a standard rejection.

I’m dozing in bed, it’s Sunday morning, when Rachel, the producer, calls.

“We’ll be there on Wednesday, there’ll be eleven of us all together…. You’ll be photographed by Tim Barber, do you know Tim’s work?”

“No, sorry…” I’m a sleepyhead.

“Oh look him up, he’s one of the most sought-after photographers in the world right now… he’s done Adidas, Nike, Levi’s… oh he’s done loads of stuff -check him out…”

On the morning of the shoot I’m gripped by panic and I’m really not sure I can do this… Jac goes out and buys me the most gorgeous flowers and we put them in my studio, like a secret little love sign. There are other secret love signs too…

When the crew turns up… there are so many people – they even have a tour bus parked round the corner! I’m taken away to have my skirt steam pressed and to have my face ironed out too – and as I walk onto the coach I feel fear creeping through me, taking over every part of my body – I almost have a seizure… it seems like a quite a big deal…

Amanda, beautiful soul, puts me at ease and we’re chatting about men, sharing all our life stories – as you do – while she’s applying her talented touch with her make-up brushes,  and I start enjoying myself. They have a buffet on the bus too and it becomes a lot of fun!

I still expect the film will land on the cutting room floor – I’m thrilled the picture makes the final cut.

I’m always looking for ways to fund my writing and Jac lets me mangage his properties on Airbnb to support my creavity.

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London at Night

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ART

Strangers

Photography credits:

Tim Barber

Jac Depczyk:  All photos unless otherwise credited (we’ve been busy!)

 

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Apr 8, 2018 | interviews

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Strangers

Strangers

Nov 16, 2016 | art, interviews

Strangers

An interview with Jiwei Han

“In my heart I love to know strangers, communicate with strangers, or to have some kind of relationship with strangers. I think this project is based on the innermost expectation of connection with strangers. But in Beijing’s undergrounds, people are crowded together exaggeratedly, shoulder by shoulder, face to face.
“A girl’s long hair can touch my face when she swings her head, I can smell the fragrance of the shampoo she used.”
A girl’s long hair can touch my face when she swings her head, I can smell the fragrance of the shampoo she used. Perhaps the distance between my face and a stranger’s face is no more than 20cm, in these conditions people won’t look at you any more or even give you a quick glance. So, between myself and strangers, we have physical contact, but in our hearts, we are living on different planets.
And ‘Strangers’ is a comment about this… but for this project I didn’t want to continue taking still photos on the metro because too many good photographers have done many great works. In Beijing, Chinese photographers have been taking photos in Beijing’s undergrounds for more than ten years, so I thought I needed to change the way to show this topic and I started shooting short videos with my iPhone.
On the street I use a small camera with a flash, a more like Bruce Gilden‘s way, I admire him. But I don’t have his life experiences, so sometimes when I do this project, I have strong desire to say sorry to people…sorry for any offence, aggression any hurt to innocent people who just walk on streets.
“To photograph people is to violate them.”
I am reminded of Susan Sontag’s words in her book ‘On Photography’ – “To photograph people is to violate them.”. I think to myself, ‘she’s right’. It doesn’t matter if people give you permission or not, if you take photos of them, you will take something away from them. Perhaps faces, bodies, the environment around people or something. Many times I have no self-confidence because I’m always worrying… do I know these people very well? Do my pictures show who he/she is?
I am a street photographer and l spend lots of time on street taking photos. Usually, I ask people’s permission before taking photos if I see a person, or a group, who interest me. I think at few years ago, people’s attitudes were very friendly and they generally accepted my request. But now, 90% of people will reject my requests on street without any reasons, they just say “No” with actions of turning their head away or using their hand to cover their face.
So, I thought perhaps I can focus only on this moment for a photographic project. Perhaps I can capture a strange moment or a strange thing – where there’s something, as the photographer, I want to have from people who don’t want to give it and are trying to protect it. And so the project “No” was born.
Although ironically, my career started with a “yes” when I asked a beautiful woman to go out with me and she accepted… it was 2004… I had just graduated from my university, and at that time, I met my girlfriend ( now, she is my wife). In order to record our first date I borrowed a DC from my friend and took the first picture in my life. Before, I had never thought about photography, never even touched a camera. And I found that photography’s an interesting thing, it could allow me to see something that normally I ignored.
At the beginning of my studies, like many beginners, I took photos of followers, trees, landscapes, people and so on. But as my understanding about photography became more in-depth, I realised what I really care about, in my heart, via my camera, it’s about people who surround me, about our life. It’s like, everyone has their own secrets and the viewfinder could help me to find out people’s secrets, could help me to understand our life, not only from a personal perspective but also the knowledge of society, history, culture….
I think it’s unlike writing, where you can describe a person from your imagine without having known them… but to photograph people, you need to know him/her through conversation or in other ways, and need to stay with him/her for a long time in order to know who he/she is, to let both understand each other. I think this is a way to reveal the secret… I think you street photography gives me that…. I think so… but perphaps more on the level of social life, the secrets of the society and less on the personal… where the individual people form part of the tapestry of the bigger picture.”
Jiwei Han was in conversation with Ali Lochhead.
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London at Night

London at Night

Jul 4, 2016 | Getty Images, photo shoot, photography, shot

London at Night

Soho neon XXX Strictly over 18 only - photo shoot for Getty Images - Ali Lochhead shot by Jac Depczyk in London. https://www.gettyimages.com/license/598720113
Lost in thought - woman in a daze on a night-time bus journey. Photo shoot for Getty Images: Ali Lochhead shot by Jac Depczyk in London. https://www.gettyimages.com/license/585223427

London is such fun to wander around at night as there’s always so much going on – the diversity and fusion of cultures make it such a vibrant and inspirational place to be, it’s a canvas for street photography. There’s often a drama on the night bus, usually highly entertaining, but this journey is chilled and Jac’s lens captures a beautiful light which flatters the scene in every sense. We go to Soho for neon, historically London’s centre for prostitution, media and, more recently, the gay community it’s a shame the council’s knocking the character out of the area.

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Paris Metro

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Strangers

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Paris Metro

Paris Metro

Jul 4, 2016 | Getty Images, photo shoot, photography, shot

Paris Metro

 

Blonde woman thinks deeply at empty metro station. Photo shoot for Getty Images - Ali Lochhead shot by Jac Depczyk in Paris. https://www.gettyimages.com/license/598720103
Moving on, she's hoping there's another train and another chance coming. Alone waiting for metro train - Photo Shoot for Getty Images - Ali Lochhead shot by Jac Depczyk in Paris. https://www.gettyimages.com/license/598720079
Looking back on the affair it still touches her tenderly. Woman alone in metro. Photo shoot for Getty Images - Ali Lochhead shot by Jac Depczyk. https://www.gettyimages.com/license/598720099

After the billboard shoot, full of excitement, I drive to Paris with my friend Carlos and as we’re leaving Jac gives me the flowers. By the time he arrives in town the blooms are pretty dried out but we love the way they look, so we make them star in an metaphorical series of photos on the métro – why is this woman wandering around with dead flowers?

Jac’s doing an illustration for The Economist newspaper, except they forget to tell him and just as we’re walking into the subway he gets a call from his frantic colleague asking where his picture is – the deadline is just hours away so we rush back to the studio and he works in rapid time, he’s brilliant, he creates an image which normally takes 2 days in under 2 hours – then we dash back to shoot about midnight and sneak in to the métro just as it’s closing!

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