Trafalgar Square London Lockdown Supermoon 2am 08 May 2018

Ultra high resolution Panorama

A Gigantosaurus 72” x 24” (1828.8mm x 609.6mm) - £425 Limited Edition of 100 only worldwide, signed and numbered by James. This size will be specially printed on Fujis highest quality silver halide paper stock -Fujiflex Crystal Archive for the richest blacks with a supergloss surface that gives the images depth looking like they’ll pop off the surface of the paper. If a more traditional photographic paper stock is desired I can print on Fuji Crystal Archive C Type Fuji Matt or C Type Fuji Gloss. The print will have a white border of 4 cms at the top, 4 cms at the bottom and 1.3cms on the left and 1.3cms on the right (see the last image to see how the print appears with the borders)

48” x 16” (1219.2mm x 406.4mm) - £190 Limited run of 300 worldwide, signed and printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Gloss

36” x 16” (914.4mm x 406.4mm) - £125 Limited run of 300 worldwide, signed and printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Gloss

All prints will have a white border as shown above in the images enabling various framing possibilities. If in London I can assist on framing.

The price includes worldwide postage and packing tracked and will arrive in a cardboard tube.

Info on the different silver halide paper stocks:

C Type Fuji Flex, a.k.a. super-gloss, has a plastic feel to the paper with a warm base colour and an ultra-high gloss finish, giving luxurious rich colours. Very high - deep blacks & high visual contrast.

C Type Fuji Gloss Professional colour paper from the Fuji Crystal archive range with a gloss finish, which accentuates the colour to give a punchy, rich feel. Gives your image more contrast, glossiness and a punchier colour feel when compared to Fuji Matt, although it maintains tonal properties and accurate reproduction.

C Type Fuji Matt Fuji Crystal archive paper with a semi-matt finish. The paper is coated with a slightly stippled texture giving a very natural photographic finish with subtle colour. Great versatile paper, very natural and works well with all photographic images. Maintains colours in a very natural way, giving a detailed, 3-dimensional beautiful photographic reproduction.

I took these photographs in the middle of the Covid 19 London Lockdown. I was in Vietnam with my family when the UK was placed on Lockdown. We felt quite safe in Vietnam as we were all in awe at the countries response to the pandemic, they still have zero deaths (at the time of writing this). We were flying back into what seemed like the centre of a plague. I spent the days looking after my 3 year old daughter in Epping Forest away from people and playing forest games. I’d have a couple of hours sleep after she went to bed, got up at 11.30pm, rode my bike into central London at midnight and cycled around the empty streets. The only people I encountered were a bunch of homeless people who I remember having great conversations with, police patrolling, empty buses and trucks delivering to the supermarkets like Tesco. The police didn’t seem to mind me being there which was a relief. Cycling in from East London once I hit Liverpool Street station it was like entering a dead zone, mostly with no signs of life. The most special part of it all was riding through the ancient parts of London in silence and the wind whistling in my ears as I rode, no noise pollution or light pollution from traffic making the streets look dramatically darker and very different from what I remembered. When the clocks in central London all struck the hour the bells echoed down the streets giving rise to goosebumps. I was cycling and day dreaming or rather night dreaming and as I cycled through London I was having visions imagining what London must have been like in the 1700s and earlier, zipping past the Thames, trying to imagine it filled with trading tall ships and the streets lit by oil lamps.. My career as a music and arts photographer has hit a brick wall with Covid 19. The magazines I’ve photographed for the past 15 years have either had their budgets cut dramatically (so they are unable to commission new photography) or have closed and cease to exist, no musicians are touring or performing and we’re all in the same boat that seems to have taken cannon fire . The image of Trafalgar Square is actually a series of 78 images taken with the purpose of making a high resolution photograph. It was intentionally taken at 2am on the 8th of May as there was a supermoon (The flower moon) illuminating London giving off a beautiful gentle light adding to the feeling that London had entered some supernatural twilight zone.