Dusty Limits, Ophelia Bitz, Ladies of Pleasure, Akimbo Moonchild (pictured), Nathan Evans… pix here

This morning, Dickie Beau ascended to take his place on the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square, as part of Antony Gormley’s One and Other project. Beautiful weather, and artfully appropriate contrails over the city. Pix here.

After two years at Images on Hackney Road, Gutterslut ventured down to Aldgate for their 2009 Slut Ball. Bravely/foolishly, after a couple of weeks of having been documenting stage performance handheld, by available light, I decided to shoot most of the night the same way (with a f3.5 zoom, and my D300 amped up to over ISO 3200, followed by a liberal application of Noiseware Pro on the final image data). Judge the results for yourselves: pix here.

Scottee’s eclectic night of performance returned to the Marie Lloyd Bar at the Hackney Empire for a special evening in honour of dancer Masumi Tipsy Saito’s imminent return to Japan. Pix here.

Fire and Knives — a new quarterly print magazine of food writing — launches in November. Editor Tim Hayward has commissioned us to put together a piece on Tony Hornecker‘s Dalston restaurant pop-up The Pale Blue Door. Stay tuned for the final article, but for now, some of the shots we might use are up on Flickr….