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“MY NEON NOIR NIGHTS – Print series (#MNNN10)

And this is the final gallery of photographs in this series which all fall under the banner of random moments in time drenched in a neon noir hue. I hope you have enjoyed looking at these glimpses into the nocturnal worlds I have witnessed. It has been a surreal experience working on this project over last few months as it revolved around nitelife activities at a time when there was none. They are now from a world before this one and hopefully it will also be the world after this one..

And even though, with vaccines on the way, it feels possible again, it’s still going to be a long time before these sort of experiences return. Before we can all be together again, bouncing to the same beat, basking in the same glow, breathing in the same air without having to be kept apart, afraid of what might happen if we don’t.

Divided and isolated is clearly not good for anyone and so we must hang on until we can congregate once more. It has been tough, tougher than even you could have imagined because being together is how we are meant to be. We are mammals. Emotionally connected warm blooded highly social beings who thrive on unity and contact. And so we must do everything we can to be that way again because this version of existence clearly doesn’t work. Not for anyone. It’s just a sadly necessary step on the way back to where we came from which is both our past and our future.

And If you still want to get a print please get in touch via email info@babycakesromero.com – and for the final time…these limited edition signed prints are £100 each, £30 of which will go to the Felix project which will feed 183 people who need it. This offer will end December 15th so please get your orders before then. And just wanted to thank everyone who have ordered prints so far. Looking forward to being on your walls soon!

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“MY NEON NOIR NIGHTS – Print series (#MNNN8)

This gallery is dedicated to the glories of Glasto and the insane amount of innovative large scale production that goes into creating what is essentially Disneyland for wasted adults. As you wander around the gi-normous site at night you can barely turn a corner without finding some captivating bit of eye candy which will no doubt keep you occupied for hours whilst derailing you from your intended destination. Hooking up with friends? Going to see your favourite dj? Trying to find a loo that doesn’t look like an alien exploded inside it? No Chance. All plans evaporate into the ether as you indulge your child like curiosity and your adult like intoxication. Glasto is a tripper’s paradise and a highly stimulating sensory experience like no other. Oh, and I think they have some bands there too…

It was obviously greatly missed this year by its regular attendees who swear by it as not only the ultimate festival but the ultimate antidote to regimented sensible city living. And so hopefully these shots will keep the Glasto flame alive in your minds until we can all be there again…

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MY NEON NOIR NIGHTS – Print series (#MNNN5)

MassivenineXXI:

Last year I was lucky enough to document the U.K tour of Massive Attack’s 21st anniversary reimagining of their classic album Mezzanine which both deconstructed the album, performing covers of tracks they sampled on the record, whilst succesfully rebooting it for the modern era.  Accompanied by a powerhouse visual show, designed by Robert Del Naja and featuring work from ongoing collaborator Adam Curtis, it felt more relevant to today than even possibly the era it was born out of. And it mesmerised the crowd, transporting them both backwards and propelling them forwards, as the narrative of the show sought to highlight that the current course of the human race was maybe not the most positive trajectory.

It was truly the opposite of the usual by-the-numbers cash-in that many bands do when trotting back out on the road with a past glory. The show itself was incredibly powerful and thought provoking rather than a jolly nostalgic singalong making it a deeper and more resonant experience. The visuals were also stunning in their simplicity and felt very monochromatic which is why I could only really see it in black and white and this gallery very much embodies the concept behind this neon noir series. I think it is also a reminder of how impactful live shows can be and why we must do everything we can to preserve the live events industry for a post-covid era.

Ok, so that’s phase one of My Neon Noir Nights print series. More to come. If you can’t wait and want to see all the shots together from this week and next in one glorious gallery here link here:

MY NEON NOIR NIGHTS GALLERY

And just to recap: each signed A3 print (420x297mm approx) in the ‘My Neon Noir Nights’ series is £100 (50% off normal price) and is in a limited edition of 10. £30 from each sale will go to https://thefelixproject.org/ who are sourcing food that would go to waste and delivering it to those who desperately need it – each 30 quid will generate a whopping 183 meals. Or you could just make a donation…

To order a print or for any more info please email info@babycakesromero.com

(offer ends 15th Dec)

p.s ­­­If you want to listen to a spotify playlist of Mezzanine XXI set list whilst you peruse the photographs (full gallery here if you want to see more) you can listen to it here:

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MY NEON NOIR NIGHTS – Print series (#MNNN4)

Light Show:

The gallery featured above from this print series is dedicated to that moment when you are out at a club or at a gig or festival when you become momentarily mesmerised by the light show. That moment might last a minute or indeed significantly longer depending on your levels of induced intoxication at the time. Utterly entranced you give yourself over to the vortex, your surroundings disappear. During that time the rest of your life melts away, all thoughts vanish and you transcend into a state of bliss. And then after that, once you return to the club, and your mates, you will probably need a brief lie-down..and maybe some chips.

Each signed A3 print (420x297mm approx) in the ‘My Neon Noir Nights’ series is £100 (50% off normal price) and is in a limited edition of 10. £30 from each sale will go to https://thefelixproject.org/ who are sourcing food that would go to waste and delivering it to those who desperately need it – each 30 quid will generate a whopping 183 meals. Or you could just make a donation…

To order a print or for any more info please email info@babycakesromero.com

(offer ends 15th Dec)

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MY NEON NOIR NIGHTS – Print series (#MNNN3)

Despacio:

This gallery in the MNNN print series is dedicated to Despacio, which I have been documenting since its inception in 2013. In my opinion and each and every one of its legions of fans I have met on its dance floor over the years, it is the greatest sound system and the greatest disco dance party in the world. It is also an extraordinary sensory experience like no other.

The jaw dropping sound being projected from the decks upon which its creators James Murphy & 2manydjs deliver their joy generating vinyl selections, which is then pumped through no less than 40 Mcintosh powerhouse amps, is accompanied by an ecstasy inducing light show channeled through one of the biggest and baddass disco balls you will ever see as its centre point of gravity. It kinda makes you feel like you are being sucked up in a tractor beam into a vortex of wonder and then propelled straight into a celestial spaceship fuelled by pure happiness which is then launched into the stratosphere of bliss and beyond…I might have got a bit carried away there but that’s how it feels..well to me at any rate.

To order a print or for any more info please email info@babycakesromero.com

(offer ends 15th Dec so there is time to get it to you b4 Xmas)

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MY NEON NOIR NIGHTS – Print series (#MNNN2)

Clubbin’ innit

This gallery in the MNNN print series is dedicated to the joys of clubbing which is currently and sadly very absent from our lives. Will we ever feel the intensity of a packed dancefloor again? Swirling together amidst the lights, squeezed into a sweat box, hugging your mates like your life depended on it, punching the air as you go apeshit to your favourite track…is there anything quite like it? Well, if its removal from our lives has proved one thing, no, there isn’t and we desperately need it back. In the meantime we can gaze at a dance dominated life that once was and will be again.

This print series consists of 10 galleries, 10 prints in each gallery, 10 copies of each print = 100 shots at £100 a pop  for each limited edition A3 print (420x297mm approx) which is not only 50% off the normal price but also £30 of each sale will go to https://thefelixproject.org/ who are sourcing food that would go to waste and delivering it to those who desperately need it – each 30 quid will generate a whopping 183 meals. So you get a print, 183 people get fed and I make a sale, that’s a win,win,win in my books. Or you could just make a donation…

To order a print or for any more info please email info@babycakesromero.com or DM me on Insta.

(offer ends 15th Dec so there is time to get it to you b4 Xmas)

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#MYLDN KCKSTRTR Campaign – featured print (17)

Me and my kickstarter, selling prints of my hometown, my capital city, my london

“Love will tear us apart again” is probably my favourite piece of street art of all time. It features the Vision and the Scarlett Witch from the Avengers locked in an embrace as if the world might crumble around them at any second. And in some ways it did as they eventually tore down this building in Shoreditch where it once resided. Street art by its very definition is transient but in a city such as London where over the past decade, so much has been destroyed and new buildings, mostly luxury flats have been erected in their place. No city stays the same but I have watched as Old London has disappeared and New London has risen up through its rubble. This photograph somehow sums up for me the end of the old and the beginning of the new and I am very glad I took it as it was not long after that it came down, each painted brick,  with a little bit of love on each one, scattered into the debris, never to be seen again.

This photograph is one of the selected you can order via this kickstarter campaign where I am trying to sell 100, one of a kind, lucky dip prints, in 30 days, for £30 each and there is now only 6 days to go and I almost there! I’m 82% funded but there are still prints left so please click on link below if you want to get one while you still can…for the record I will never sell these prints again.

https://tinyurl.com/ya43j8bw

I would like to thank everyone who has ordered one so far and supported this project. I am so chuffed you have all got behind it and fingers crossed I can make it to my goal in the last few days. If you are able to help me and contribute to the campaign or to share out in any way please do, just copy link above, it would be hugely appreciated as I race towards the end.

Free the jpeg!

P.s If anyone knows who did this mural I would love to know.

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#MYLDN KCKSTRTR Campaign – featured print (9)

Me and my kickstarter, selling prints of my hometown, my capital city, my london

Just in case you were in any doubt this is a picture of a man doing a head stand in his bucket. His sign states:

“I am a professional head stand master, practicing for ten years. Please don’t try this at home. Make a wish in my magic wishing tin and allow me to continue my wonderful job bringing smiles and laughter to you beautiful people. love and light to all. Please like “bucket boys/bucket man on facebook.”

This photograph is one of the selected prints you can order via this kickstarter campaign where I am trying to sell 100 one of a kind prints in 30 days for £30 each. And as of today, I am exactly halfway to my ‘all or nothing’ goal with exactly half the time to go..16 days to be precise  – to order a print here is the link to the campaign: https://tinyurl.com/ya43j8bw

 

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#MYLDN KCKSTRTR Campaign – featured print (8)

Me and my kickstarter, selling prints of my hometown, my capital city, my london

This was another one of those moments when I couldn’t quite believe my luck in spotting this random and poignant moment. The sofa had been there for about a day and had obviously been thrown out by someone and had seen other people sit on it but when I saw this woman sat there, deep in thought, looking concerned and somewhat troubled it really struck me. It was at a time when there was a relentless amount of anti-muslim headlines in the press and the mainstream media who were stoking up as much resentment and hatred as they could and I felt somehow this image encapsulated that experience in some ways. She looked so isolated and out of place on that purple sofa it felt like it showed how alienating it must feel to be from a different culture and attempting to integrate whilst looking so different and being treated with suspicion. The press only ever report the immigrant situation from the point of view of the establishment and the indigenous population rather than what it must feel like to be at the receiving end of an unwelcoming atmosphere. Imagine going to a party and everyone looks at you weird and gives you the cold shoulder. Like that but every day.

This photograph is one of the selected prints you can order via this kickstarter campaign where I am trying to sell 100, one of a kind, one off, 1 of 1 prints which are never to be repeated or replicated. As I am only printing 1 of each shot you will not be able to choose your print but you will be the only person in the world to ever own it – please click through on this link to view the campaign and  join the lucky dip and to share if at all possible: https://tinyurl.com/ya43j8bw – your support is very much appreciated. And thank you to everyone who has pledged so far. Muchos Muchos x

To see all the prints that are part of the lucky dip please click on this link: http://wp.me/P2TRkx-3ym

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#MYLDN KCKSTRTR Campaign – featured print (7)

Me and my kickstarter, selling prints of my hometown, my capital city, my london

Not a single pixel in this digital photograph has ever be seen anywhere other than on a screen. It has been at the mercy of instant swiping since it was released into the ether and has only ever known fleeting encounters with its online consumers. There one second, gone the next. Don’t these pixels deserve a more permanent existence? To exist in the real world as we do? You could release this picture from its digital hard drive dungeon by pledging to my campaign  and giving it a place it could call home.

Free the jpeg today by clicking on this link: https://tinyurl.com/ya43j8bw

This is just one of the 100 photographs you could receive in the lucky dip. You don’t get to choose as there is only one of each print and when you receive it you will be the only person in the world to ever own it. I will never re-print the photograph so it will be like owning a painting, a true one off. These images will only ever be offered in this way at this price on this kickstarter campaign as a one time only deal never to be repeated.

If you have enjoyed being a follower of the #MYLDN series over the years and were able to help contribute to this campaign I would be hugely grateful. The way kickstarter works is that I need to sell all of them to hit my target or I don’t sell any. Sadly I do not have an ad spend to help promote this so if you are able to share this campaign in any way it would be hugely appreciated.

tally so far: 35 prints sold, 65 to go, 22 days left.

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#MYLDN KCKSTRTR Campaign – featured print (6)

Me and my kickstarter, selling prints of my hometown, my capital city, my london

I have an ongoing series called “dead in the mincers” (cockney rhyming slang for looking someone straight in the eye – as in ‘mince pies’ -eyes) and this is a perfect example. It looks like I’ve been caught red handed capturing the moment and the menace in her eyes would certainly indicate as much. However sometimes people look straight at me but don’t know for sure if I am taking a shot or not as I literally ‘shoot from the hip’. I use the touchscreen on my Olympus OMD as find it hides my photo taking action much better than pulling the camera up to my face and pressing a button. It also means I never look directly at my subjects and in this instant, if I had, I think I would have been rooted to the spot in fear.

I had just seen this trans person, who was now eyeballing me with a look to kill, attack some woman on Soho square by repeatedly hitting her with a handbag. It was over in a flash and she stormed off with her mate after said battering and just by sheer fluke  I ran straight into them being interrogated by the police shortly after. She was actually claiming she had been hit rather than the other way round.  I did think about offering up my alternative viewpoint of the event in question but thought better of it as didn’t really want to be on the receiving end of her wrath or her handbag.  Did I allow justice to fail to protect myself from violent repercussion – yes, absolutely.

There used to be a lot of characters like this around Soho but they have all but disappeared. Relics of a former era now gone forever. I miss them. They brought a vitality to the area that is now sadly lacking. The question I have to ask is when the area got cleaned up and boutiqued to oblivion where did they all go? Where are they now? Hanging out in the suburbs? Mooching about in Margate? It seems unlikely. I really would like to know. Same goes for all the characterful and colourful residents of Old London who got moved on by excessive rents…where the fuck did you all go?

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#MYLDN KCKSTRTR Campaign – featured print (5)

Me and my kickstarter, selling prints of my hometown, my capital city, my london

This was taken on Portobello Road, a road which I have walked down almost every day for at least the last decade or so. And if you are going to walk down the same road over and over it might as well be Portobello as there is nearly always something or someone going on that will be worth documenting. In this case, the someone was the woman in this picture, who for reasons unknown, stepped out in front of this car holding up an open book to her chest and then refused to move. The driver also seemed unaware of the cause of this human blockade but his attempted solution was to scream at her and beep his horn repeatedly which failed to work. She just stood there, determined and resilient, seemingly oblivious to everything around her, including the irate driver and the small traffic jam behind him she was causing.

I have  often wondered what the book was. My first choice would be a bible or some religious text as it is often only the word of God that can inspire such commitment and fortitude. However, it could have been Harry potter and the Deathly Hallows for all I know. This situation went on for a while and I ended up leaving them to it so I don’t actually know how the situation resolved or what was ultimately behind it but I was grateful to have captured such a truly bizarre occurrence. London is full of these fleeting moments of madness as lives collide.  That’s what makes it such an interesting place to live.   You just need to keep your eyes peeled. And I try to keep my eyes peel free at all times…

This photograph is one of the selected prints you can order via this kickstarter campaign where I am trying to sell 100, one of a kind, one off, 1 of 1 prints which are never to be repeated or replicated. As I am only printing 1 of each shot you will not be able to choose your print but you will be the only person in the world to ever own it – please click through on this link to view the campaign and  join the lucky dip: https://tinyurl.com/ya43j8bw – your support is very much appreciated. And thank you to everyone who has pledged so far. Muchos Muchos x

tally so far: 31 prints sold, 69 to go, 23 days left.

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#MYLDN KCKSTRTR Campaign – featured print (4)

Me and my kickstarter, selling prints of my hometown, my capital city, my london

Sometimes the planets align to produce a moment of magnificent random chaos that just somehow becomes ordered, designed, destined always to have been. The  instant I captured in this photograph I think delivers this to beautifully. I love how the policeman is looking at me, his expression kind of says it all. What I think is great that buried deep in his furrowed brow is the acknowledgement of how ridiculous this situation is and he feels embarrassed and a bit guilty that he has been caught in this predicament. Its not good cop vs bad cop, its real cop vs fake cop and its difficult to tell who’s winning. This is what they call in photography a gift from the gods and all you can do is get it in the bag and declare your gratitude to the universe.

This photograph is one of the selected prints you can order via this kickstarter campaign where I am trying to sell 100, one of a kind, one off, 1 of 1 prints which are never to be repeated or replicated. As I am only printing 1 of each shot you will not be able to choose your print but you will be the only person in the world to ever own it – please click through on this link to view the campaign and  join the lucky dip: https://tinyurl.com/ya43j8bw – your support is very much appreciated. And thank you to everyone who has pledged so far. Muchos Muchos x

tally so far: 19 prints sold, 81 to go, 26 days left.

 

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#MYLDN KCKSTRTR Campaign – featured print (3)

Me and my kickstarter, selling prints of my hometown, my capital city, my london

This was one of those instants when you realise as a photographer that if you really want to capture unique magical moments amidst the humdrum of daily life you must have your camera with you and readily accessible at all times. I don’t think at any point on any journey I have ever travelled on the London Underground I have ever seen anyone sit on the escalators. Not once except on this single occasion. And she sat there with such poise and elegance and seemed so relaxed and at ease in a situation that definitely didn’t demand it, it was truly mesmeric. To this day I feel very lucky to have captured this fleeting moment and also feel very lucky that I was able to do it without disturbing her. She had no idea I was even there, lost so deeply in her own thoughts which were clearly transporting her far and away beyond the transport system she was within.

This photograph is one of the selected prints you can order via this kickstarter campaign where I am trying to sell 100, one of a kind, one off, never to be repeated or replicated, 1 of 1 prints. As I am only printing 1 of each shot you will not be able to choose your print but you will be the only person in the world to ever own it – please click through on this link to view the campaign and  join the lucky dip: https://tinyurl.com/ya43j8bw – your support is very much appreciated.

tally so far: 15 prints sold, 85 to go, 27 days left.

#freethejpeg

 

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#MYLDN KCKSTRTR Campaign – featured print (2)

Me and my kickstarter, selling prints of my hometown, my capital city, my london

People who have seen this photograph have often asked me what is he doing and in all honesty I have no idea. He could be gardening, praying, have his head stuck in a fence, spying on someone in the basement. In some ways it is not knowing which gives the photograph its meaning as it is what we project on to it that makes us relate to it. The relationship between the viewer and the image is everything, more even than the relationship between the photographer and the image because it is the connection of the consumer which makes it personal and most impactful. This is what gives it greater resonance. So its really not for me to say. You decide. It becomes your picture…which leads me conveniently on to..

This photograph is one of the selected prints you can order via this kickstarter campaign where I am trying to sell 100 one of a kind one off 1 of 1 prints. As I am only printing 1 of each shot you will not be able to choose your print but you will be the only person in the world to ever own it – please click through on this link to view the campaign and  join the lucky dip: https://tinyurl.com/ya43j8bw – your support is very much appreciated.

tally so far: 12 prints sold, 88 to go, 28 days left.

#freethejpeg

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#MYLDN KCKSTRTR Campaign – featured print 1

Me and my kickstarter, selling prints of my hometown, my capital city, my london

This photograph was #MYLDN (1) – the first picture I ever posted in this blog. I always loved her expression. I think she could see me taking a photograph from over the road and it puzzled her as to why. She even looked a bit irked by it. Somehow this ramshackle parking space blocking construct annoyed her. And then you have this slightly sinister and mysterious figure in black heading into the house but he looks frozen, as if waiting to be beckoned in to the dark house. Three individual and random factors (actually 4 if you include me) unwittingly conspiring to make a scene. Order out of chaos. It are these seemingly unrelated connections between objects and people that I gravitate to on the streets of London. It shows how, whether we like it or not, we are all intertwined.

This photograph is one of the selected prints you can order via this kickstarter campaign where I am trying to sell 100 one of a kind one off 1 of 1 prints in just under 30 days. As I am only printing 1 of each shot you will not be able to choose your print but you will be the only person in the world to ever own it – please click through on this link to join the lucky dip: https://tinyurl.com/ya43j8bw – your support is very much appreciated.

tally so far: 7 backers, 93 to go, 29 days left.

#freethejpeg

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#MYLDN KICKSTARTER LAUNCH (FREE THE JPEG)

Me and my kickstarter, selling prints of my hometown, my capital city, my london

Dear Subscribers,

Today I am launching a kickstarter project to sell 100 unique, one off, one of a kind, never to be replicated 1 of 1 prints. Please click on link below to see the video and read about the campaign and to buy a print if you would like one. The print has a lucky dip selection as there is only one of each photograph in the series but what’s more fun than a lucky dip? If you buy one you will be the only person in the world to own it. Ever. You can also view the images selected in the link below.

Many of you have been following my blog since the beginning and massively appreciate all your support to date and would be chuffed if you wish to support this project too.

(this link will take you through to the kickstarter project: https://tinyurl.com/ya43j8bw)

Thank you

Babycakes Romero