Look what I found!

I was wandering through Brixton Village yesterday, for the first time in ages. It really has come on in the last year since I was there with my studio. There are loads of really exciting cafes, restaurants and quirky little boutiques... well worth a trip.

In one of these boutiques, I was very excited to find a Kodak Brownie Cresta 3, complete with camera bag, instruction manual, and (most exciting of all for me) a luggage label with the previous owners name and address, and the Hotel to which she was going to... which just so happens to be a village in Switzerland called Les Marecotes, which I visited with my family in 1991. With that bit of Swiss-ness in there, I just had to buy it.

It seems that the mechanism works... I will pop a 120 film through it soon, and let you know the results!

(Oh, and I have searched Google for the previous owner. Her name is Georgina Rowe, which is a very common name. The camera dates from the second half of the 1960's, so I reckon she'd be in her 70's now... perhaps you know her or someone who knows her?)

My name in lights

Preparation for Brixton People is fast underway... last night I spent the evening painting polyboards black to use as killspills, have managed to find assistants to help out, email invite out, facebook event up, flyers made....

and the project is in the South London Press!

So I'm getting very excited... please do come down and say hi, have your picture taken and partake in the delights of the newly revamped Brixton Village. I'll be there from Tuesday to Saturday, 11 - 5pm.