PDN Photo of the Day: John Midgley’s Brooklyn Circus project

September 13, 2011 – 10:24 am

. Hooray for John Midgley! PDN featured his Brooklyn Circus project as its Photo of the Day yesterday. . .

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Highlights from other photo blogs

August 31, 2011 – 8:02 am

The summer’s been a bit slow, so I haven’t done one of these roundups in a while. Here’s a look at some highlights from other photo blogs over the last couple of weeks: . . Sean O’Hagan of The Guardian penned a thought-provoking column on rock stars and photography asserting that “photography has often spoken [...]

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Corbis Silver Iris Competition honors John Midgley’s Brooklyn Circus project

August 8, 2011 – 1:46 pm

. John Midgley and his Brooklyn Circus project were honored in the 2011 Silver Iris Competition, sponsored by Corbis and Creative Review. The brief for the contest was “Urbanization,” and the judges were looking for “imagery inspired by the common consciousness of urban dwellers” as well as “the personality of the city itself.” John was [...]

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Brooklyn Circus…the movie?

July 20, 2011 – 1:26 pm

. John Midgley has teamed up with Ouigi “The Bearded Man” Theodore and The Brooklyn Circus once again, this time for a short film directed by Eva Midgley, John’s wife. The cast of the movie, for which John is serving as director of photography, includes jugglers and burlesque performers, and the wardrobe is by the [...]

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Photos: SMart Book 2011 launch party

January 31, 2011 – 12:11 pm

A big, big thank you to everyone who came out, despite the prodigious snow and slush clogging the city streets, to The Gallery @ Stockland Martel last Thursday for our SMart Book 2011 launch party and exhibition. It was a fabulous night. Here’s a look: .  

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John Midgley and Ouigi Theodore on their ever-expanding Brooklyn Circus portraits project

October 22, 2010 – 10:26 am

Last summer, John Midgley did a portrait project on The Brooklyn Circus, a unique boutique and lifestyle brand headquartered a few blocks from his Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, home. (This past summer, Esquire named it a “brand to watch.”) This year, he’s expanded the project with two new shoots: one in two different Brooklyn settings and [...]

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Sneak Preview: John Midgley’s Brooklyn Circus portrait project

July 20, 2009 – 7:32 am

…….. In Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill neighborhood, there’s a boutique called the Brooklyn Circus, a purveyor of finely made fashions inspired by the days of bowties, vests,  suspenders, tweed trousers, and tailored jackets, all with a modern street twist. Photographer John Midgley lives near the store and became friends with gregarious Circus ringmaster Ouigi (pronounced “Weegee”), [...]

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