Call my Agent!

I'm discovering that being a photographer can be an odd business, especially when photographing other people doing things. You turn up, introduce yourself, and then spend the rest of the time pretending not to be there..creeping around hoping that the people you're photographing don't notice you, so you can get your shots.

As some of you may know I spent 6 months of this year creeping around various theatres, venues & circus tents trying to be invisible, photographing City Circ, London's first ever season for theatre & contemporary circus. Nobody commissioned me to do it, I called someone up one day and said, 'I want to take pictures of all these circus shows and put on an exhibition, have you got anybody doing it?'. Twenty shows later..and I got my pictures exhibited in three different venues, and invited to join Jacksons Lane arts centre as a resident invisible person.

Yesterday I had a meeting with ArenaPAL The Best Image Library for the Performing Arts, as it says on their page on facebook, although not the most popular on facebook, there were only 7 fans, 8 now.
I found out about them when I was photographing Mimbre's new show Until Now at the Laban Theatre this summer where I met established photographer Eric Richmond who recommended I contact them.
They hold an archive of over 2 million images including opera, dance, ballet & musicals, and represent collections from a number of renowned international photographers. They like my circus pictures, so I signed the contract, and now.. well it looks like I have an Agent!

Photography by Hannah Edy

Perfomers: Barney White, Jeni Barnard

Show: Wake (tech rehearsal 23 Nov 09)

Company: Acrojou Circus Theatre

Big Love Gallery

Hello. Some of you may know I started doing a stall a few weeks ago in Brick Lane and Greenwich Market. Loving having to get up at 7am every Sat & Sun to stagger down the market with my wares..coffee in one hand, market clips in the other, watching people stare at my stuff all day hoping that they cough up some cash. No its been great, I'm loving it..and is so good to see people smile and laugh at the different heart pictures.

This Saturday though something quite unexpected happened. I arrived at Greenwich blurry eyed to set up my stall in the stormy wind & rain wishing I had just stayed in bed, (nothing new there), but early afternoon my mum came to pay a surprise visit, nice. So we sat there chatting amongst the lovely red boudoir of the big love stall when suddenly crash bang wallop! The stall shuddered and I shouted 'get out mum!'. We ran out to find an enormous piece of wood had flown through the roof and landed right next to my stall. Luckily noone was hurt, but what a shock. In fact i might have to go and have a fag now to calm my nerves just thinking about it.

Greenwich Market

Sat 14 Nov

around 3pm

a huge piece of

wood flew off

a nearby building

crashing through

the roof and hit

the stall next door

denting the metal

bars. See my stall

the red one and

hole above.

The market had

to be evacuated.

The thing that fell through!