Featuring Helen Noir and Ben Pistor downstairs, with A Man To Pet, Dickie Beau and Nando Messias upstairs, and a literally pop-up performance by Ms Noir. Pix here.

Good interview with the ever-charming Jim and James from HMD in Resident Advisor today. Nice that they’ve also used one of my photos from the mayhem that was Horse Meat’s 2008 NYE party at Cargo…

It’s out! Available at all the usual places, online and off. Get yourself a copy.

The launch party was held last night at — of course — The Eagle in Vauxhall. Some photos from the event here.

Also a reminder that I’ve put together a little slideshow of the photos HMD and label Strut commissioned from me for the release.

Loving his work: intimate scenes from the cafés and asylums of Purgatory.

A few days ago, I accompanied Ms Noir to the Wellcome Library. The Library is a fabulous resource: while Helen researched for her upcoming show (see below), I spent the day investigating spirit photography and mediæval gem lore.

EXHIBIT: Hyppolite Baraduc, early photographer of the soul and its emanations. Here, he describes his technique (quoted in Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere):
Baraduc. I love your images. Are your books available in English? I hesitate to look. May you remain, as do your fêted photographs of the soul, somewhere in my imagination, as water is in water; darkness deep in deeper darkness.

[Helen Noir debuts her work Glass Harmonica as part of the Performative season at Digitaria, on 31st August. ]