NEW WEBSITE for brilliant pianist

A simple, new website for "...a pianist of phenomenal talent". Designed and written by Richard Wilson and Ben Ealovega. Photography by Ben Ealovega.

NEW WEBSITE for leading stage school

Dupont Dance, one of the country's leading stage schools, gets a new website and a fresh new design. Design, photography and copy by Richard Wilson. Cut-outs by Ned Jolliffe.

NEW LOOK for an exciting, new dance school

A fresh new look and some useful marketing tools - letterhead, flyer, poster, business cards and a website - for Ellie's dance class in north London. Design concept and creative direction by Richard Wilson. Design and art direction by Mark Cox.

Through a tourist's eyes

Last night, at 8.30 on the dot, I met my friend Min at the "London by Night" bus stop in Victoria armed with a bottle of wine, a couple of glasses, a picnic and a camera. It was a warm, summer's evening and as we sat upstairs in the open top bus, disguised as tourists. And listening to the (genuinely!) hilarious guide, we watched London transform as the mood magically shifted from dusk to night. I took lots of pictures but I've selected these few because they convey something of the atmosphere of the evening - the luminosity of the London nightscape; and the joy and anticipation of a city enjoying it's Saturday night. www.london-by-night.net

Coffee, hair and make-up

Lili and the girls practice hair and make-up in preparation for the Habesha Fashion Show - a night of modern and traditional Ethiopian culture - on 22 August, 2009 at the Camden Centre, Judd Street, WC1H.

Hair and make-up by Lili Assefa. Filmed and edited by Richard Wilson. Double click image for full view.

HAMLET to be? or not to be?

A young and devoted priest, fresh out of theological college, is confronted with the first major test to his faith. Double click image for full view.

REHEARSING - for Habesha Fashion Show

Rehearsals begin for the Habesha Fashion Show - a night of modern and traditional Ethiopian culture - on 22 August, 2009 at the Camden Centre, Judd Street, WC1H. Double click image for full view.

Bamako, Mali 2008

I've just come across these photos and video clip - which I took on my phone when I was in Mali in January, 2008 on my way back from the festival au desert. On my last day, I visited the beautiful and inspiring museum in Bamako to look at the sculptures and textiles, and whilst wandering around I could hear this joyful music outside. Having resisted the call for a short while, I sucumbed and raced outside to see what all the excitement was about...a typical Malian moment! If you want to see some extracts of my journey from Bamako to the Festival au Desert visit my website: www.richierichproductions.com and look under people&places.

A poet with a camera

Mario Giacomelli's gritty and grainy photographs, currently exhibiting at the ATLAS gallery in Dorset Street, not only transport you to Italy's poor south but they open up doors and insights into the simplicity and naturalness of the creative process. An approach often relegated in our digital, megapixel, Photoshop age.

For here is a photographer less preoccupied and constrained by the technicalities of the camera (he once threw away a new camera with it's exposure meter in favour of a point-and-shoot model) but more concerned about capturing what is honest, real and beautiful.

His approach and results are refreshing. The technocrat, may notice that his work is often over exposed, his subjects out of focus and his prints contain spots and hairs. And yet as poetic slices of life, they work! A reminder that life, captured and presented directly in it's essence - and all it's rawness - is more beautiful and moving than anything that glosses over the truth and smoothes over rough edges.

"Mario Giacomelli - Puglia" ATLAS GALLERY 25 March - 16 May, 2009