Bashpelt (from left to right): Baz Rawlinson, Thomas Hargreaves, Richard Wilson, Andrew Gilmour.

Certain images such as this lend themselves to the matted texture and reflectivity of the material. The brushed aluminium shows through the highlights or parts of the image that are very light.

Vivid, experimental and high impact photographs complement this way of presenting photographs.

Something different, printed on something different.

The Process

Using a large format printer that prints in high-resolution directly on a 5mm thick sheet of brushed aluminium, starting at A2 size upwards with a choice of 4 styles of fittings on each corner to give the piece a deeper profile and secure it with ease and elegance.

Bodypainting Timelapse

A video production by Rockstone Arts
Andreas Andrews & Simon Noble

Model: Lauren Butler
MUA: Victoria Stansfield

Music: Bangkok – Boris Dlugosch

Location: Leeds, UK

Upon deciding to go into town and document what was happening to the city in which I lived I grabbed my camera went into the centre where I quickly found a crowd gathering at Piccadilly Gardens. It soon became a mob, and after watching Spar being looted and packets of cigarettes thrown into the crowd I followed the mob as they smashed the shop fronts one after another.

You can see the rest of the photographs covering the rioting and looting on here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreasandrews/sets/72157627272982467/

Footage from the video has appeared on BBC’s Panorama feature on the riots as well as ‘Inside the Riots’ the Truenorth TV Panorama programme, Charlie Brooker’s 2011 Screenwipe (Zeppotron) and has also been licensed to Eyeline Entertainment, AETN – A&E.

It has been said that my footage has showed elements of the riots in Manchester which are not seen elsewhere, and serves to highlight the riots in a way which is used and shown in several countries to a wide audience.

Model: Rebecca Pearson

Thanks to:

Matt Johnson
Joel Widdowson
Luke Richards
Jessica Forrest

Music ‘Last Songs’ by ‘Dntel’

Additional thanks to:
Andrew Brooks
Mark Forrer

Photography and Editing by Andreas Andrews © Copyright 2009

An ongoing project melding documentary and fashion photography in an exciting way using people who have never modelled before from the streets of various cities and towns across the UK.

More info, images and a micro-site coming soon! Watch this space!

‘London Lights’ is a photograph which I shot at Piccadilly Circus (looking onto Lower Regent Street) .

Having won a highly commended national award from ADP Architects competition named ‘Bricks & Mortals’ it was sold in a silent auction appearing an a travelling exhibition across the country raising money for charity Article 25 with the proceeds being used to help build a school in Goa, India.