The Lake Poets Newcastle Cluny 22 March 2011-5773.jpg, originally uploaded by david.wala.

I am happy with the framing and vantage point of this shot of the supremely talented The Lake Poets at The Cluny.

Instax For The People.

This is a brief update on my recent events.

On 22 July I photographed the Little Episodes night at the legendary 100 Club on Oxford Street in London. Little Episodes  help raise awareness through the arts for those suffering through addiction and depression , please visit http://www.littleepisodes.org/ for more information. It was a pleasure to photograph this gig it was a friendly vibe – of course it was also an opportunity to see some great bands including the Harrison Brothers, Kieran Leonard, and of course Carl Barat. I have put some of the images from the event in my gallery. There are also more images from this event on my Flickr site.

I was also excited last week to photograph Steve Conte playing solo at Robin 2 in Bilston ( near Wolverhampton). I have been lucky enough to have seen him play many times with New York Dolls in his day job – it was my first chance to photograph one of his solo gigs.

He did not disappoint he played a set oozing with rock n roll attitude – well worth the 600 mile round trip.

On the night Steve and his band were happy to pose for my Instamatic For The People instant photography project which fills me with hope that my ongoing project is heading in the right direction. Check out the I mages in the Instamatic For The People gallery. At the time of writing Steve is using his image as his Facebook profile picture.

I also sent Steve images from the gig and I am delighted that he liked them and that he wanted  to use them for promotional material.

You can see them here on his Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/album.php?aid=472201&id=342874415037&ref=mf

You can see some images from the gig in my gallery or on my Flickr site.

I expect the next time I will see Steve is when he will be playing with New York Dolls at The Cluny in Newcastle on 4 September.

I have recently updated my Published Work gallery. I was happy to see some of my photographs usd by recently reformed Newcastle punk rock legends Automatic NE1 check them out here: http://www.myspace.com/automaticne1

It is also good to see my images in Narc magazine and Glorious Noise check my published work section to see details of my Jesse Malin, Evan Dando, Harlem, and Extra Life published images.

http://www.gloriousnoise.com/features/2010/jesse_malin_live_in_newcastle.php

I have just added twenty new scans of my Instax images to the Instamatic For The People gallery please check it out here: https://davidwala.net/gallery-3/instamatic-for-the-people/. This brings the total to 75  and counting…

After I return from London I will be updating my gallery with images from recent gigs by early next week.