Karen Strunks Photography

4am Project event at Bodies Revealed

As part of the 4am Project I organised a photo event on 6th December which was held at the Bodies Revealed exhibition in Birmingham. The 4am Project my global photography which asks people to capture their view of the world at 4am.

Thank you to everyone who took part! I’ve had lots of great feedback and I’m glad you enjoyed the event.

Lots of amazing photographs have been submitted to flickr!

I took the opportunity to ask some of the photographers how they heard about the 4am Project and if they enjoyed the event! Thank you everyone who took part in the video.

 And there is more! Being a world wide project, lots of other photographers from around the world set their alarms and headed out in the wee small hours with their cameras to capture their world at 4am. Take a look!

If you would like to take part in the next 4am Project event, put the 4thApril in your diary! Maybe get some friends together too! You can keep up to date with all the 4am Project news on the website, and you can follow the project on twitter too @4amproject

A big thank you to the sponsors of the Birmingham event. Hello Digital, Big Cat PR and of course the Bodies Revealed exhibition.

Andrea Bocelli at the National Indoor Arena

Last night I covered the Andrea Bocelli concert at the NIA. I had to collect my press pass from the Box Office and asked a member of door staff for directions. The lady was very helpful and escorted me right around the arena, took me to the box office, then to the stage door area. I think I would have got lost otherwise! Someone else came to collect me and the other photographers and took us into the arena pointing out the areas we could shoot from, basically the side of the stage up to a certain marker.

We were allowed to shoot three songs, except the first piece of music was from the orchestra. So in reality I only got to shoot two songs with Andrea on stage! I think some of us photographers felt a bit short changed lol. But it all adds to the experience, and also never presume anything!

I took my position as close as I was allowed to get and it wasn’t long before a member of the security staff approached me and asked me to move further away. Oh no…..! I politely explained that I was advised that the photographers could go up to this point by other members of staff. The security guard seemed happy with this and left me to it. Whew!

I hope you enjoy the shots!

I shot a fun autumnal portrait session on Monday. There was jumping and cartwheels – photos coming up soon!

Oxjam Music Festival Birmingham

Yesterday I shot some photographs for Oxjam. It was a music event that spanned the city, raising money for climate change and poverty.

This is Nathan Bennett aka Man With Piano at The Prince Of Wales (a pub I used to work part time in many moons ago). You can also find him twittering.

Pete Haywood. He isn’t online yet, but will be working on a website soon (won’t you Pete?).  As well as being a talented musician, Pete is an artist. We had an interesting discussion about which medium captures someone’s personality the best; photography or drawings. Pete was insistent on drawing, naturally I had to disagree a little on that one Perhaps there is a challenge there!

Little Dipper made an appearance at Island Bar for his set.

And last, but by no means least we have James Rea.

Whew! It’s been quite a week photography wise. Much fun, new places and new faces.