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’m brushing the raindrops from my trilby when Brighton-based photographer Kevin Meredith
sweeps into the city centre café we’ve arranged to meet in. I instantly recognise ‘lomokev’ from his Twitter page, where in his avatar, he’s kitted out in an army off icer’s overcoat and cap. Fortunately, when he turns and we greet, he doesn’t clasp me in a bear hug or attempt to ply me with vodka, instead what flows over the next hour is his love of photography and, in particular, cameras. Kevin has just published Toy Cameras and on seeing the name you could be mistaken that the book, like the 40 cameras Kevin uses in it, is a disposable bit of fun. But the images captured are simply stunning and the range of styles and depth deliver a visual smorgasbord that both seasoned professionals and click-and-hope photographers (like me) will marvel at. Kevin takes the art of snapping pictures seriously, one could almost say (harking back to his Twitter page), with military precision. He never leaves home without a camera, he teaches photography classes, and he lectures for industry bigwigs at companies like Google. For Kevin, photography clicked
into place at a young age. “I passed [my GCSEs] and decided to go to art college. You get a list of things you have to buy and one of those was a camera.” Having bought a very simple SLR he was able to learn the basics like aperture and shutter speeds and he never looked back. Kevin started taking pictures at raves and his f irst break was working for Eternity (an underground hardcore drum‘n’bass magazine). “I was 18 years old, I had a pager and they’d contact me on a Friday, with a rave to go to. They were paying me 50 quid a night which back then was a lot of money. It was amazing. Happy days!”
Coloursplash Camera
Blackbird, Fly
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