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ICC Mediation Competition

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I recently spent a week shooting the 7th International Mediation Competition organised by the International Chamber of Commerce. Over 500 students and mediation professionals from around the world converged in Paris to participate in this massive competition. Throughout, university students faced international business problems, which they attempted to resolve by mediation. Occasionally, the photographer has the best job – in this case, it meant being the only person who could sneak in and out of the rooms and follow many sessions at once. All in all, a fun week with lots of great faces, encounters, chats and champagne! The full sets are here. To all my Paris friends, I apologise for not having a second to see you.

Bald

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Whenever I sit behind a bald head, I have an overwhelming urge to touch it. I don’t know why… I don’t particularly like the look. I do hate hair though. I didn’t use to but I’m fairly certain I could never again live with someone who had long hair. I don’t specifically mind it on somebody’s head but anywhere else makes me shiver. Hair in the drain being the most obvious pet peeve… anyone who stays with me often knows to remove it asap post shower! I should probably seek help.

Open Space @ The HUB

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The HUB Brussels is an amazing, innovative co working space right around the corner from me. I’m often tempted to grab myself a desk there but can’t quite justify it … a lot of my editing is done later at night and I have a perfectly good space at home. It’s always nice to have an excuse to spend some time there though, which is what MediatEUr‘s open space event offered me on Friday. So two posts in one really – some open space action and some HUB vibe. Here’s the full flickr set

Away game

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Busy, fun weekend. We (rugby team) had an away game in Heusden-Zolder on Saturday -  a small place in the middle of the Limbourg region. As we left Brussels, it was pouring with rain and absolutely freezing meaning none of us were feeling very pumped but the closer we got to Heusden the bluer the skies and it ended up being pretty perfect! I bought my camera along to snap a couple of team shots and then it struck me that it would be fun to shoot all the changing rooms and club houses of the places we play at… they are all fairly unique. I’ve missed half of them this season, so I suppose that means I’m condemned to playing at least another year if I want to catch all of them!
Band shoot with Ziggy today but I haven’t even loaded those yet so that’ll have to wait.

Mr SMART

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Julek Jurowicz is a bit of a celebrity in my circle. He co-founded SMART – a non profit organisation which handles contracts for artists and other people working on short contracts. Thanks to SMART people like me don’t have to pay through the nose or suffocate under a pile of paperwork in order to work independently. They also publish helpful guides, provide trainings and fight for the rights of those on short term contracts. It’s not perfect – there is still a fair amount of paperwork and my salary is not always paid quite on time…but all in all, it’s a great idea/help that is being rolled out in France and will no doubt spread further. Julek is ridiculously busy and has been doing this for 20 years but still lights up when discussing the latest fight with the national employment agency involving artists’ right to subsidies. Sam the dog is the office mascot.

2012 it is

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Happy new year! I hope it’s a good one (and that the Mayas had it wrong). Back in comfy Brussels after a really nice xmas – I may have to stop wine and food in 2012 though!
A selection of shots from the Lot et Garonne and Dordogne – everyone should visit (and when they do, stay at my parents B&B!). I also managed to catch up with François & Aurélie who were xmassing nearby… we picked a half way spot on the map and ended up in La Roche Chalais where the one restaurant will stuff you to the gills for 12 euros – what more could you ask for?

Working Hard

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I like the style of these meeting shots from a gig last week. I wanted to make sure I grabbed some good portraits and edited them to look modern. I will get back to the daily blog format thing beginning 2012 but I’ve been making a lot of changes to how I organise, store and edit images, all improvement I think so while I get to grips with all of that I’m holding off a little. You can check out the whole meeting set on flickr.