Richard Harvey

Richard Harvey //
Photojournalist working out of London.This blog is a combination of my editorial work and snap shots.
rchfoto@live.co.uk
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Boot boys, Calais.

49 ♥ / 16 August, 2012

Tottenham.

6 ♥ / 14 August, 2012

1 ♥ / 13 August, 2012

Ridley road market, Dalston.

2 ♥ / 6 August, 2012

A portrait of my good friend Ole and the Full city. The Full city, a panama flagged ship, split it’s tanks spilling some 200 tons of oil off the Norwegian coast damaging sea life during my visit in ‘09. It has since hit the headlines again in ‘11 as it came under pirate attack.

3 ♥ / 6 August, 2012

A while ago I took a trip to Hungary to cover a corrosive chemical spill that swept away an entire village. As it goes I didn’t get to see much of the chemical spill because the Hungarian army gotta hold of me and marched me right back out of the dead town Kolontar…….but they did do a very good job of decontaminating my rental car. Which saved me cleaning it before giving it back.
Editorial failures aside, the trip was not a total loss. I spent a little time exploring Hungary’s crumbling soviet bases. Many of these places leave their own legacy of pollution and contamination on account of the hasty Russian withdrawal of 1991. The 16mm frame above (which was filthy but cleaned up nicely I think) came from the guard quarters of one such place called Szentkirályszabadja, which during the cold war had stationed nuclear weapons. Hundreds of feet of this film littered the ground floor corridors. The subterranean levels of this building where pitch black and armed only with my flash gun I tentatively popped my way around finding several padded windowless rooms which I could only assume to be cells.

3 ♥ / 5 August, 2012

Markfield park, Tottenham.

4 ♥ / 4 August, 2012

Broad lane, Tottenham.

3 ♥ / 3 August, 2012

I really, really miss my old car……no safety features, rear wheel drive with a live axle and slot mags.

0 ♥ / 3 August, 2012

A few miles from my home town on the vanishing periphery of SW England, I happened across this. Originally it would have pulled a star turn at the abandoned theme-park to which it belongs. But now, as ultraviolet and frost attack its gel coat, It weighs heavy on my mind as an icon of an economically moribund objective one county.

0 ♥ / 7 May, 2012