“Photographer and investigative journalist Marc Vallée on protests, breaking stories and police poundings” – ideastap.com

The nice folks at Ideas Tap interviewed me last week about my work and here it is. You have to sign up to view it or you could click here.

A new edit of some old work.

Link: Click here to view more pictures. Click here to view the slideshow.

Clients: Pictures are available for rights managed editorial licensing. High resolution images are available on request.

A brief and selected review of 2009 – in no particular order.

Documenting political dissent, front page investigations, press freedom, Section 76, photographers rights, Section 44, the G20, a good day, a bad day, media interviews, winning an award, a face for radio, suing the Met (again), thinking about space, police surveillance, Huck Magazine, death threats, lunch, photographers organising, the Frontline Club, skateboarding, protest boys, looking back, Twitter, McCarthyite games & thinking about far off lands.

All said and done 2009 was a full on year. One wonders what 2010 has in store?

Getting close to closing the office for the year and I just wanted to give you a sneak preview of a new project I have been working on. Portrait of a Skateboarder is the working title – what do folks think?

Here is a slideshow of pictures from the Youth Fight for Jobs protest yesterday.

“Young protesters march for jobs” – BBC News.

“Youth Fight for Jobs” – youthfightforjobs.com

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 28.11.09. Unemployed people, students, union activists and socialist campaigners – from across the UK – congregate in central London to demonstrate and demand jobs as the rate of youth unemployment stands at a record high on Saturday 28 November 2009 in London, England. Unemployment in the UK totalled 2.46 million in the three months to September. Youth unemployment – measuring the number of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work – rose by 15,000 to 943,000. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2009.

Click here for a new collection of limited edition prints.

The prints come in two sizes 20″ x 16″ and 12″ x 10″ and both come in an edition of 25. The prints are printed on a Lambda with Fuji Crystal Archive paper and come with a provenance certificate and are signed and numbered on the reverse.

Out now – a feature length interview by Olly Zanetti with yours truly in HUCK – the international surf, skate and snowboarding magazine. Without doubt the most definitive interview about my work and life yet!

Make sure you pick up a copy or you can read it online here.

Publication: Pages 52 and 53 of Huck Magazine, October 2009.

“Skateboarder arrested in San Francisco” – Olly Zanetti, Huck Magazine.

“Urban Space” – Marc Vallée, blog.marcvallee.co.uk

Olly Zanetti writes in Huck Magazine, “After skater Zach Stowe was arrested in San Francisco, the question is again raised, ‘Whose cities do we really live in?’” – to read more click here.

On Tuesday I had lunch with – the queer independent filmmaker – Jimmy Boy*.

Print Above: Jimmy Boy* – queer independent filmmaker. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2009.

Print Above: Jimmy Boy* – queer independent filmmaker.(Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2009.

*Aka Eva Monkey.

Here is some of my old skate work. Above is Andreas Laszlo Konrath in Brighton in 2000 (shot on film and with a fisheye) and below is a poster from an exhibition I had in Brighton in 2002. The exhibition was called Fuckgravity and was part of a photo/film skateboarding event with Larry Clark’s film Kids and a short film from Comic Skateboards.

Publication : Fuckgravity, exhibition poster, Brighton 2002.