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A Monumental Tour. Part Nine: Knin

2018 Highlights

January 15, 2019
2018 was a year of travel, adventure and commissions from huge clients (Jack Wolfskin and Gravis) and tiny...
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A Monumental Tour. Part Eight: Makarska, Podgora, Košute

October 14, 2018
Before we could relax, there were three more monuments. Two would be found on the Adriatic coast: Makarska, a small city overlooking the ocean, and Podgora, just to the south; the third was Košute, further north and inland.
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A Monumental Tour. Part Seven: Makljen

August 10, 2018
All of these monuments bear the heavy weight of history, not just of the events that they memorialise, but of what has happened since.
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A Monumental Tour. Part Six: Tjentište

June 17, 2018
The monolith that stands halfway up the mountain is the most beautiful concrete structure ever created.
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A Monumental Tour. Part Five: A Fork in the Road

April 19, 2018
This project was a collaboration with Skochypstiks, a tiny, community-driven clothing company based in Serbia and Croatia. This...
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A Monumental Tour. Part Four: Barutana

March 23, 2018
This project was a collaboration with Skochypstiks, a tiny, community-driven clothing company based in Serbia and Croatia. This...
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A Monumental Tour. Part Three: Ulcinj

January 23, 2018
This project was a collaboration with Skochypstiks, a tiny, community-driven clothing company based in Serbia and Croatia. This...
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Winter Training

January 12, 2018
Winterval, Parkour Generations‘ annual training event, is always a bit of a daunting prospect: short days and bad...
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A Monumental Tour. Part Two: Veles

January 2, 2018
This project was a collaboration with Skochypstiks, a tiny, community-driven clothing company based in Serbia and Croatia. This...
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A Monumental Tour. Part One: Zaječar

November 21, 2017
This project was a collaboration with Skochypstiks, a tiny, community-driven clothing company based in Serbia and Croatia. This...
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Perceptions of risk

September 1, 2017
Shirley Darlington-Rowat is a hero. 8½ months pregnant, she’s still training hard despite the immense bump that’s conveniently...
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Traceuse Portrait Project – part II

August 14, 2017
Last year I photographed the Women’s International Parkour Weekend hosted by Parkour Generations. During the lunch break, I...
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Denmark Does It Better

June 19, 2017
Despite being borderline unpronounceable, Gerlev Idrætshøjskole is a special place. It is one of a number of ‘folk...
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The Good Doctor

January 31, 2017
Julie Angel is one of the most influential women in the world of parkour. Actually, scratch that. Start...
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Concrete Clickbait: A response to Owen Hatherley

December 6, 2016
Owen Hatherley’s recent article objecting to the internet’s superficial fascination with Former Yugoslavia’s communist era monuments provokes interesting...
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The pancake: my second favourite lens

October 25, 2016
It’s rare that my beloved EF 16-35mm f/2.8L comes off my camera; it’s a remarkable lens and, when...
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Women on walls or women as wallpaper?

September 25, 2016
GQ magazine recently published this photoshoot and accompanying article, prompting a passionate response from the climbing community. Such...
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Footwear and frailty: the shoeing of gender normativity

September 9, 2016
When photographing Parkour Generations’ Rendezvous event at Hampstead Heath last month, I spent most of the day at...
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Portrait Project: The Traceuse

June 30, 2016
In April 2016, I photographed WIPW, the Women’s International Parkour Weekend hosted by Parkour Generations in London. After...
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Korenica: the spomenik that wasn’t there

April 21, 2016
In 2015 I spent a month seeking out spomenik in Former Yugoslavia with traceurs from Serbia and Croatia....
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Why photography loves urban exploration

July 21, 2015
Web cartoonist hero XKCD once wrote “Some of my best adventures are built around trying to photograph something.” Certainly...
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Brimham Truly Rocks

October 2, 2014
On 19th September 2014, after a morning of fudge and coffee, Zofia and I climbed together at Brimham...
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Bärenquell Brewery: Exploration

June 13, 2014
This series of photographs was produced as part of my exploration of the abandoned Bärenquell brewery in Schöneweide,...
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Misinterpreting Architecture

February 4, 2014
On Friday 20th December 2013, we walked from Latimer Road to Trellick Tower, seeking out climbs. The city...
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Commercial Pressures

January 4, 2014
A few months ago I wrote a deliberately provocative article about the inevitable commercialisation of parkour. This polemic...
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Southbank versus Southbank: Façade and Authenticity

October 1, 2013
The argument over the proposed developments of the South Bank and the consequent relocation of the skaters from...
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The Boat

September 15, 2013
Next month sees the release of Explore Everything; Place-Hacking The City, a book on urban exploration by my...
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Climbing Public Art

August 7, 2013
  Next to the Serpentine Gallery there is a sculpture entitled ‘Rock On Top Of Another Rock‘ by...
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Berlin: Training At Kreuzberg

July 26, 2013
On the day that I arrived in Berlin, the traceurs that I’d contacted were training in Kreuzberg in...
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Why Buildings Matter

June 12, 2013
  Over the last few years I’ve given numerous talks, run various workshops and taught lots of people...
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Ten Years

April 27, 2013
April marks ten years since I took my first parkour photograph. On Sunday 20th April 2003, I drove...
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Dark Corners

April 18, 2013
At one end of the incredible Llanberis Pass, a mountain has disappeared. In its place lie immense piles...
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Sticky Snow

March 18, 2013
In the last ten years, I think Johnny ‘Sticky Fingers’ Budden has appeared in more of my photographs...
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A Factory In Finland

February 21, 2013
If you ever get the opportunity to go and train in Finland, do not hesitate. Go. In December...
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Elephant Encounters

December 13, 2011
There were two very good reasons to hook up with Parkour Generations in order to photograph the ADAPT...
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Composition: A Parkour Frame of Mind

May 11, 2011
Until writing this article, composition is something that I’ve never really given a lot of thought. There are...
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The One Thousand

January 2, 2011
Chalk. Bananas. Superglue. Protein powder. Finger tape. Flapjacks. Music. Nail clippers. iPhone. Lucozade. Guns. Resolve? On Saturday 11th...
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Empty Elephant

September 15, 2009
The housing estates at Elephant and Castle have been a favourite training location for London’s traceurs for several...
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July 2005 bombings

July 7, 2005
I’ve just had quite an interesting day. Nothing compared to some, I grant you, but I hope some...
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