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Mezi jeho úspěchy patřilo vítězství v soutěži z fotobudek v Riverside, v programu televize BBC2 v roce 1982 a články v časopisech The Face a Time Out v polovině osmdesátých let… “V roce 1989 jsem se doslechl o dalším ‘fotobudkovém’ umělci Sašovi Markovićovi z Jugoslávie, který nejenže dělal obrázky z budek, ale také používal masky. Naplánoval jsem to a navštívil jsem jej v Bělehradu dvakrát (1990 a 1991) a udělali jsme první společný projekt a výstavu. Oba jsme začali vystavovat více prací a pak přijel Saša do Británie v roce 1994 a já jsem zorganizoval týdenní ‘fotobudkovou’ dílnu v Glasgow, kde jsme na Strathclyde University mohli v ‘Zimní škole’ rozvinout naši práci a zapojit i jiné lidi. V době jeho další návštěvy v Británii v roce 1999 jsem pozval jedenáct lidí, aby se zúčastnili dnů ‘budkování’ na Nottingham Trent University. Tak vznikla první International Photo-booth Convention (Mezinárodní fotobudkový kongres). V následujících dvou letech se konala na veřejných prostranstvích v Putney v Londýně a sklidila velký úspěch, když přilákala mnoho fotobudkových umělců a nadšenců až z Německa, Francie a Jugoslávie, z Anglie z Brightonu, Birminghamu, Londýna a Nottinghamu…”
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“From the late 1970s through to the late 1980s I used photo-booth machines to make my wacky pictures using masks and backdrops. I visited a booth at least once a month (often more than that) becoming known as a ‘boother.’ Some highlights during that time was winning a photo-booth competition on ‘Riverside’ a BBC2 TV programme in 1982 and articles in The Face and Time Out in the mid 1980s… During 1989 I heard of another photo-booth artist Saša Marković from Yugoslavia who not only did his pictures in a booth but used masks as well. I made plans and visited him in Belgrade twice (1990 & 1991) doing our first projects together and exhibiting work. We had both exhibited more work and by the time Saša came to the UK in 1994 I arranged a week-long photo-booth workshop in Glasgow, part of the Strathclyde University ‘Winterschool’ for us to expand our work and involve others. By the time of his next visit to the UK in 1999 I invited 11 people to take part in a days ‘boothing’ at the Nottingham Trent University. This became the first International Photo-booth Convention. In the 2 following years it was held in a public location in Putney, London with great success attracting many photo-booth artists and enthusiasts alike from places as far off as Germany, France and Yugoslavia and closer to home from Brighton, Birmingham, London and Nottingham…”1
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“From the late 1970s through to the late 1980s I used photo-booth machines to make my wacky pictures using masks and backdrops. I visited a booth at least once a month (often more than that) becoming known as a ‘boother.’ Some highlights during that time was winning a photo-booth competition on ‘Riverside’ a BBC2 TV programme in 1982 and articles in The Face and Time Out in the mid 1980s… During 1989 I heard of another photo-booth artist Saša Marković from Yugoslavia who not only did his pictures in a booth but used masks as well. I made plans and visited him in Belgrade twice (1990 & 1991) doing our first projects together and exhibiting work. We had both exhibited more work and by the time Saša came to the UK in 1994 I arranged a week-long photo-booth workshop in Glasgow, part of the Strathclyde University ‘Winterschool’ for us to expand our work and involve others. By the time of his next visit to the UK in 1999 I invited 11 people to take part in a days ‘boothing’ at the Nottingham Trent University. This became the first International Photo-booth Convention. In the 2 following years it was held in a public location in Putney, London with great success attracting many photo-booth artists and enthusiasts alike from places as far off as Germany, France and Yugoslavia and closer to home from Brighton, Birmingham, London and Nottingham…”1
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