namke communications is a name under which I produce both photography and music.
Music is currently taking rather a back-seat to the photography at the moment, but if you're interested in what my music sounds like, check out the review of my 2003 single at Boomkat, or download some here
Photography is currently based around black-and-white film (35mm and medium format), developed and printed 'in house'.
Please get in touch if you have any commissions...
My first ever Super 8 cine project from June/July 2005. Shot on expired (Russian) Quarzchrom black-and-white film stock, the film is a comment on the surveillance society which we are currently experiencing in the UK - all in the name of our protection.
A simple blank T-shirt over on RedBubble:
An early success for my experimentation with cyanotypes. The original was created on Crimson and Black Watercolour paper from a digital negative (original negative was from my Lubitel 166B medium-format camera).
A long and convoluted path to a final image, but there you go. Cyanotypes definitely have a look of their own...
One of my early black and whites - taken with a toy camera on Ilford HP5+
If I was just a musician, this would be called a discography. I'm not, so it isn't. Here's a list of stuff I've done in the past:(not yet complete!)
July 7th sees the return of Vector Lovers (aka Martin Wheeler) to York for his first gig in his old home town for a long while (details at the freakin' website here).
A list.
O. Winston Link
Tom Stoddart
... there'll be more as I find 'em
A recent press release from Ilford gives film users reassurance in film's future - a renaissance even: THE FUTURE OF FILM (14th May 2007).
Submitted by namcom on Tue, 15/05/2007 - 10:11.As you may have noticed, all of the photographs on this site were taken on film (discounting screenshots of OS X screensavers, CGI, and video of course).
Why should anyone living in the 21st century still cling on to such an archaic form of image capture? Personally:
Submitted by namcom on Thu, 03/05/2007 - 15:03.Something that (I think) Brian Eno said quite a few years ago, about the impermanence of digital audio (that much new music was being recorded, mixed, mastered, and delivered on digital media which has a relatively short life - a master tape with a few bits corrupted here and there becomes unreadable. Compared to analogue tape which may pick up dropouts, but the tape can still be listened to many years after its recording*), was echoed in a program last night touching on photography (BBC4's 'Thoroughly modern: The snapshot camera').
