LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 09.08.12. Skateboarder Dylan Leadley-Watkins at home in south east London on Thursday 9 August 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2012. All rights reserved.

Marc Vallée – marcvallee.co.uk

In no particular order here are my top ten pictures from 2012. It’s been a great year and I hope you enjoy this edit.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 11.07.12. Graffiti artist on Leake Street near Waterloo Train Station on Wednesday 11 July 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2012. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 09.11.12.i Christian Hoso at the Vans Cab Lite launch party at the skateboarding shop Slam City Skates on Friday 9 November 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2012. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 01.08.12. Skateboarder Dylan Leadley-Watkins playing with a Rottweiler dog in south London on Wednesday 1 August 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2012. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 26.05.12. Kennington skate bowl jam on Saturday 26 May 2012 in London, England. The Kennington Bowl has stood largely untouched since the 70‘s. The American shoe company Converse has resurfaced and updated the bowl as part of it’s ‘Fix To Ride’ program. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2012. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 22.02.12. Backstage at the Asger Juel Larsen autumn winter 2012 fashion show on Wednesday 22nd February 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2012. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 11.03.12. Anti-skateboarding devices near Bankside on Sunday 11 March 2012 in London, England. Anti-skateboarding devices are deployed by private corporations and local authorities. The aim is to reshape individual and group behavior and discourage skateboarders from using a particular public or semi public space. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2012. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 19.01.12. Author Dom Lyne at home in Camden Town on Thursday 19th January 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2012. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 06.01.12. Male sex worker Thierry Schaffauser at home on Friday 6th January 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2012. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 18.08.12. A graffiti writer taking part in the Battle of Waterloo competition on Leake Street near Waterloo Train Station on Saturday 18 August 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2012. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 05.11.11. A test print for ‘Writers – Pictures in a Tunnel’ on Saturday 5 November 2011 in London, England. Photographers Brian David Stevens and Marc Vallée will be constructing a large photographic installation of their graffiti pictures on Sunday 27 November 2011 in Leake Street near Waterloo. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2011. All rights reserved.

“Audio: The Left Bank Show” – marcvallee.co.uk

If you missed Brian David Stevens and I on The Left Bank Show on Resonance104.4fm this week you can listen to it online here.

We discussed our graffiti show, photography, street art, the privatisation of public space and lot more with host Leah Borromeo.

Writers – Pictures in a Tunnel – Brian David Stevens & Marc Vallée.
12 – 2pm – 27.11.11 – Leake Street, London, SE1. Facebook Event.

“Ed Templeton – My soul is worried but not me” – Nils Stærk

Nice interview with professional skateboarder and artist Ed Templeton before the opening of his exhibition “My soul is worried but not me” earlier this year in Copenhagen. Well worth taking a look at.

Note: Interview by Per Andreasen. Camerawork by Morten Westh and Søren Tolshave.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 14.06.11. A set of prints and contact sheets of Blink 182 shot by Marc Vallée in London in 1999. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2011. All rights reserved.

“Blink 182″ – blink182.com

This week I have been editing pictures from the 90s and came across a set of Blink 182 contact sheets and a few work prints. I remember the night well. I was given just over an hour with the boys before a gig at the Borderline. I had seen them play at the London Astoria a few years before when Lagwagon was headling and became a fan. It was interesting to work with them at this time just before the band hit the mainstream here in the UK.

I will be printing a set up plus scanning them for my picture library soon. Enjoy the above i-Phone picture for now.

“Civil Unrest” – civilunrest.net

Civil Unrest Programme (PDF).

We are having a Civil Unrest private view on Friday 4 March 2011 at 4pm. If you want a closer look at the prints and meet the photographers, filmmakers and artists in the show then RSVP via this Facebook event.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 10.11.10. Student protesters and police clash outside the Conservative Party headquarters at Millbank in central London on Wednesday 10th November 2010. Early in the day 50,000 students and supporters marched against the governments plans to rises to tuition fees to £9,000 per year. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2010. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 30.07.10. Local skateboarder Danny at Harrow Skatepark in North West London on Friday 30 July 2010. Harrow skatepark is one of the few remaining public working seventies parks with handmade concrete ramps and bowls in the UK. The local authority has recently spent £50,000 on two new spine ramps and a mini ramp. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2010. All rights reserved.

Marc Vallée Picture Library – marcvallee.co.uk

No surprise that I have spent the majority of my working year documenting political dissent. Along side of this, I have been reviewing my achieve of youth culture pictures from the 90’s, with a view to digitize them for my picture library. Without doubt this inspired me to shoot more youth culture pictures this year and is something I want to do a lot more of in 2011.

I’m not saying the protest project is over, far from it, but my focus is definitely shifting. This refocusing is clearly reflected in this edit. Picking ten pictures from the many thousands I have made over the last year has not been easy. I hope you like my edit.

The Blog and I are now on a hiatus and we will be back in the new year.

Enjoy!

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 10.11.10. Student protesters and police clash outside the Conservative Party headquarters at Millbank in central London on Wednesday 10th November 2010. Early in the day 50,000 students and supporters marched against the governments plans to rises to tuition fees to £9,000 per year. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2010. All rights reserved.

BOLTON, UNITED KINGDOM – 20.03.10. Far right nationalist campaigners congregate in Bolton on Saturday 10 March 2010 in Lancashire, England. The English Defence League protested in Victoria Square as shops and pubs across the town closed for the day. Police in full riot gear used the controversial tactic of ‘kettling’ along with dogs, horses and riot police snatch squads to control a counter demonstration organised by Unite Against Fascism (UAF). Police made dozens of arrests, including UAF organiser Weyman Bennett. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2010. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 03.07.10. Local skateboarder Danny on one of the new ramps at Harrow Skatepark in North West London on Saturday 3 July 2010. Harrow skatepark is one of the few remaining public working seventies parks with handmade concrete ramps and bowls in the UK.  The local authority has recently spent £50,000 on two new spine ramps and a mini ramp.  (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2010. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 24.11.10. Students and school pupils join a demonstration in central London to protest against government plans to rise tuition fees and to make cuts to the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) on Wednesday 24th November 2010. Tens of thousands of students from across the country protested and occupied buildings in the second day of mass action within a fortnight. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2010. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 12.03.10. French male sex worker Thierry Schaffauser and president of the GMB-IUSW, Adult Entertainment branch at home on Friday, 12th March 2010 in London, England. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2010. All rights reserved.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 16.06.10. Eighteen year old local skateboarder Sam Boland at Harrow Skatepark in North West London on Wednesday 16 June 2010. Harrow skatepark is one of the few remaining working seventies parks with handmade concrete ramps and bowls in the UK. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2010. All rights reserved.

DUNGENESS, UNITED KINGDOM – 19.02.10. A general view of Derek Jarman’s garden at Prospect Cottage at Dungeness on the Kent coast on Friday 19 February 2010. Today was the 16th anniversary of Derek Jarman’s death of an Aids-related illness at the aged 52. The filmmaker, artist and writer lived at the famous cottage and created the shingled garden in the latter years of his life in the shadow of the Dungeness nuclear power station. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2010. All rights reserved.

BRIGHTON, UNITED KINGDOM – 30.08.10. Police surveillance officers film around 200 anti-fascist campaigners as around 40 far-right nationalist protesters congregate under heavy police protection on Monday 30 August 2010 Brighton, England. Police used dogs and horses to clear anti-fascist protesters from blocking streets in Brighton to stop the far right march. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2010. All rights reserved.

LUTON, UNITED KINGDOM – 04.01.10. A Conservative Party general election billboard – with party leader David Cameron on it – in Luton, Bedfordshire on Monday 4 January 2010. Eric Pickles – Chairman of the Conservative Party – joined local party members in Luton as David Cameron launched the Party’s health manifesto in London. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2010. All rights reserved.