PAUL RIDER

Shop in Peckham

paulr51 — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:06:53 +0000

Possible metaphor…

Filed under: iPhone, photography, Street Tagged: British, kitsch, patriotism, Peckham, Royal Weddding, tacky

Kerry Ellis’s album cover

paulr51 — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:20:24 +0000

I shot this back in July but it’s just come out. This is Kerry’s first solo record, though she has the most amazing cv crammed with awards and starring roles in the West and Broadway, and it is full of belting tunes all produced by Brian May of Queen.

Despite her background Kerry is definitely not a ‘west end diva’, she is very, very sweet, funny and delightful to work with. We spent a great and productive day in a location house in north London at the end of which, while everyone else was sitting around being content but rather knackered, Kerry jumped in a car and headed off to Drury Lane to play Nancy in Oliver!

Thanks to all at Decca Records, to Mark Caylor at We Are Tourist for the art direction and Marina Olivati for the styling

Filed under: album cover, music, photography, portraits Tagged: album cover, Brian May, Decca, Kerry Ellis, music, photography, Queen

Pre-season

paulr51 — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:17:55 +0000

After the sad, shambolic end of England’s World Cup I just thought this was funny and, in a way, touching. This guy could be the real Wayne, wistfully having a fag and watching a game of football on the beach (a French beach) alone and exiled, contemplating what might have been.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: beach, kick about, Rooney

…..the weekend is nigh

paulr51 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:05:04 +0000

This weekend I am going to York. While there I will spend some time photographing roadkill. Why? More later…..

Posted in Rock a Hula Tagged: Elvis, Rock a Hula, sad discos, Ted Fest

one singer, one song….

paulr51 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:33:36 +0000

Posted in Friends of Ted Tagged: drinking, munch, priest, singing, Ted Fest

Tim Andrews, Madness and The Plinth

paulr51 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:17:29 +0000

I was wondering where to start, but then I saw that The Plinth in Trafalgar Square finally closed for business this week after 100 days and 2400 plinthians. Tim Andrews was a plinthian back in August. He spent his hour, dressed in a long brown frock coat, carrying a cane and wearing an inexplicably small top hat, dancing to the music of Madness’s The Liberty of Norton Folgate. It was a magnificent performance on, as you can see, a perfect afternoon.

Tim Andrews is a remarkable and inspiring man. He’s a long term Madness fan, but he used to be a lawyer until he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and forced to retire. Unbowed by this blow he set to to find positive ways to fill his time and have fun. Apart from dancing on a stone plinth 20 feet above the ground, a pastime made all the more ‘exciting’ by his condition, he decided something else he liked to do was be photographed. So far he has been photographed by almost 70 photographers of various styles and stamps – of whom I have the honour to be one.

The outcome of this work is to be an exhibition sometime next year (exact date TBA) at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking in Surrey (www.thelightbox.org.uk)

Posted in inspirational Tagged: Madness, The Fourth Plinth, The Liberty of Norton Folgate, Tim Andrews, Trafalgar Square