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Portraiture: Laura Tippenhauer

Laura is my beautiful friend, an incredible artist, musician, mother, wife, busy woman. These are from a recent trip to visit her in Hamburg.

We’ve been threatening to do a shoot together for a long time and finally got our shit together.

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Portraiture: Courtney Marie Andrews

I stole Courtney for 10 minutes before she made everyone weep, in a good way, on the Isle of Eigg at a Lost Map weekend. I then proceeded to rant at her about how her lovely coat reminded me of Gram Parsons’ famous embroidered suit while I slipped into a ditch.

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Y O U

I made this light box painting thing after visiting much missed pals at their new (ridiculously beautiful art nouveau monochrome feast of a) home in Hamburg.

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Performance + Event : Starcatchers

Starcatchers is Scotland’s Arts and Early Years organisation who create performances and creative activities for babies and children from birth to 5 years and the adults who care for them. Their Mission is pretty exemplary if you ask me.

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Performance : Howlin’ Fling, Isle of Eigg

Sometimes the only way you can give yourself a fighting chance against the void is to head off to a remote, soul cleansing spiritual retreat and take a wee nibble on a mix of dead nice people.

Incoming. Lost Map Records on the Isle of Eigg. A special one. I’ll warn you.

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Portraiture : Alexia Avina

Portraits of: Alexia Avena, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist born and raised in Southeast Asia, previously based in Montreal and now living in rural Massachusetts, whose heavenly music is rooted in ambient, folk and dreampop traditions.

Shot when Lost Map Records moved their hearts into the Isle of Eigg.

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Portraiture : Makeness

Portraits of: Makeness creators of elaborately broken-sounding dance tracks which utilize buzzing guitars, post-disco beats, and falsetto vocals.

Shot when Lost Map Records moved their hearts into the Isle of Eigg.

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Editorial : Pop 💥

Editorial Pop 💥 Collaboration between some good local folk at The Bellfield, Portobello featuring one very cool Moschino Blazer. A fine piece of kit indeed.

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Event : Debutante Launch

It’s easy to espouse feminist rhetoric and adopt surrealist motifs but if words and actions don’t align it’s really just empty platitudes… Photos are from The Debutante launch party way back before the pandemic and all that other stuff.