Banda Estrellas de Sinaloa de German Lizarraga (top) and Boban and Marko Markovic Orchestra (bottom) live at the Barbican. ‘Brass Band Battle: Mexico vs The Balkans’, La Linea Festival, London, UK (14 April 2013) Click here to license these images and for more photos of Boban and Marko Markovic Orchestra and Banda Estrellas. Nikon D700 …
Photographs from the Maslenitsa Festival, Trafalgar Square, London, UK (16 March 2013). Maslenitsa is a Russian Shrovetide festival celebrating the end of winter and the start of Spring. Russian rock group Smyslovye Galuzinazii Russian singer Polina Gagarina Russian folk diva Nadezhda Babkina To license any of these images or view more images from the Maslenitsa …
More photos from the Bridges Festival, Newcastle Gateshead (Sunday 5 August 2012). Near the Tyne Bridge, Northern Print make a giant linocut print with help from the ‘stupendous steamroller’, Coquet Lass. The steamroller, which was built in 1899, worked on the roads around Rothbury, Northumberland, and was restored over a 14 year period from 1987 …
Buzet, a small medieval hill town in central Istria, holds its annual Subotina festival in early September – with stalls selling local produce, people dressed in period costume, live traditional music, and the evening beforehand, the preparation of an enormous omelette, filled with the truffles for which this area is famous. Buzet from the west …
A few shots from lovely Charente, from a recent assignment on BD (bande dessinee, or ‘comic strip’) artists in and around Angouleme. Francis Groux, founder of the Angouleme International Comic Strip Festival / Festival Internationale de la Bande Dessinee (left), and Gerard Balinziala, the director of the festival (right), at the Abbaye de Saint Amant …