Oh my gosh! Its been too long....

Pinhole Sunderland, Selfie, June 2014
By Jo Howell Photography

I have fallen way behind with my blogging duties in the past few months, but I have a fair excuse- I have been working my butt off!

So continuing with work for Arcadea Disability Arts in Newcastle twice a week, and also working for  The Art Studio Sunderland twice a week (check out their blog to see what I've been up to here).

Whilst also continuing with my commercial photography in the studio. I have had some fantastic artists in the studio in the last few months, and have had the great honour of capturing some gorgeous photographs of some really accomplished glass/ceramic pieces. You can see more on my website or Facebook page.

I have also started documenting a great project for The National Glass Centre. This will be finished in August, so hopefully then I will be able to knuckle down to create some of my own work.

However, it hasn't all been so quiet on the creative front- I have continued with my City by the Sea project, Pinhole Sunderland and Painted North projects that you can view on my pages in this blog.

Ta ta for now!

Pin Hole Photography of Sunderland

Sunderland Bridge Pin Hole Camera Photograph
by Jo Howell Photography

In preparation for a project with Arcadea Disability Arts and Next Stop Byker, I decided to have a go at creating a couple of pin-hole cameras and take some shots near my studio. The day was a lovely bright day with a few clouds skittering across the sky.

Pin Hole Cameras made using powdered milk tins
by Jo Howell Photography

I turned part of my studio into a darkroom and loaded the cameras with highly suspect fibre-based paper. (I say  highly suspect because I wasn't entirely sure if the chemicals might have gone off as the paper was left over from Uni 5 years ago!)

Anyway, as it happens some of the attempts worked better than others but I was getting some interesting results. I have decided to continue creating cameras and I intend to create a body of work using the images, possibly moving into hand colouring or adding to the images created in some way.

From the studio looking out
by Jo Howell Photography

Keep you eyes peeled for more in the coming months. If you would like to see the full album of images please check out my Facebook page.

Thats all for now folks! 

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