Quite a lot going on at the moment – a weekend on the coast, a couple of circus residencies, a photo workshop….let’s start at the beginning.
The last week of January brought another circus company to Auch, with their version of Tchaikovsky’s « Swan Lake » – interesting watching a man romping around in a ‘tutu’…
What made this more interesting, and infinitely more complicated, was the directors inability to understand that I don’t work for free…
Once this was sorted out (and it took 6 days…) we moved on…to a REAL spectacle. This was « Interprète » by the Cheptel Aleïkoum/Maxime Mestre. I know the company well, and while for this spectacle there was only Maxime on stage, the rest of the troupe are here in Auch for virtually a whole month’s « residence » – they have asked me to work for them towards the end of the month – great news – they seem to like what I’ve done for them in the past!!
We enjoyed FANTASTIC weather during our weekend on the Atlantic coast – sunshine the whole time, good grub and lots to photograph (although all I seem able to do when the sun comes out, is point my camera at it – this is particularly frustrating to people who follow me on FLICKR as it seems every image has the sun in it somewhere… )
Of course, it was rather convenient to have the vestiges of a number of WWll blockhouses just laying there on the beach…so photogenic…
This week after ‘covering’ the show at CiRCa, I ran a photo workshop, with a number of adolescents, overseen by the local authorities. The kids had to photograph a number of key places here in the town, and I had to be on hand to ‘help’ in case they had photo related questions. I managed to keep my head down and followed everyone around, listening to our guide.
It’s very difficult trying to get a ‘different’ angle on a building that has been photographed many millions of times before…
The guide gave us all square mirrors, and it was unusual to be able to walk around and try to navigate just by looking up…
What on earth will I come up with to occupy myself next week?