What a start to 2019! We’ve been to the four corners of the British Isles on shoots and smartphone filmmaking courses for a variety of organisations. One of our recent smartphone filmmaking courses was a bespoke course for the British Red Cross. We were impressed at the quality of the films produced, and so, we […]
“There are some training courses you go to because you have to, and some you go to because you want to. The smartphone filmmaking training with Mile 91 was definitely the latter….” With millions of films uploaded to the internet everyday, there has never been a better time to use the technology at your fingertips to […]
Scrolling through Twitter recently I saw a photo of a young woman who had just won the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize and realised I recognised her. I recognised Rebeca Gyumi because I had taken her photo whilst working with VSO in Tanzania ten years ago. At the time she was running a youth […]
When Catherine asked me to help Mile 91 produce 150 stories for the TUC’s 150th anniversary, I was excited by the scale of the project but, I’m embarrassed to admit, fairly indifferent to the subject matter. I didn’t know much about trade unions and – I’m cringing as I type – I thought the stories […]
On UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities we want to talk about the responsibility photographers have to ensure their work doesn’t perpetuate inequality. “That’s his proper happy face – we don’t see that very often.” These were the words of Martin’s sister when she saw the photos that Mile 91 captured of her brother […]
Once upon a time, the sea was full of monsters. Huge, dark, brooding figures that could live without air in the black, cold, salty waters of the world’s oceans. These unknowable creatures were surrounded with folklore and spoken of with fear and caution.
As we reach the end of another Black History Month I am finding myself reflecting on a project I was working on this time last year. Autumn 2017 saw Mile 91 knee deep in planning for TUC’s 150 stories for 150 years project which has been live throughout 2018. We were researching and producing stories […]
We worked with Shelter to curate archive material and capture stories from today for use in its #shelterat50 activity.
