ISSUE N°. 1 £6.99
on the road.
lETTER FROM THE EDITOR. Welcome to the first issue of Cellar, a magazine offering an eclectic mix of people, places and fashion. Cellar does not dictate to the reader but aims to provide a new and different perspective. Our desire is to take the reader on a journey of exploration through our stories and editorials. For the first issue, my team and I have chosen the theme ‘On the Road’, taking on the challenge of quite literally documenting different journeys throughout the magazine. Creating this issue has itself, taken us on a journey, from exploring London hotels, driving down the m25 to find a service station, and taking a walk with the Epsom and Ewell ramblers. As for myself, I have spent my time interviewing a variety of documentary photographers on Instagram, as well as Brandon Stanton, the man behind ‘Humans of New York,’ the website blowing up across America, trying to show the reason why this documentary style of photography has become such a global phenomenon over the last few years. Being on the road can mean a whole variety of things to us; both physical and emotion journeys, memories and plans for the future, which we have tried to convey across this issue. Through the variety of stories and editorials we have included, we really hope you feel like you are on a journey whilst you are reading! At the end of this issue you will find our “Cellar Mixtape,” where we have compiled a list of albums, which the various people we have spoken to within the issue, have said they would take on a road trip with them, from classic British Rock albums, to movie soundtracks. I hope this magazine encourages you to explore and delve into your interests, and that you enjoy each journey you take.
Grace Insole
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GRACE INSOLE ART DIRECTOR CRAIG HEMMING ART DIRECTOR GRACE INSOLE PHOTGRAPHER SILVIU DOROFTEI PHOTGRAPHER CRAIG HEMMING FASHION DIRECTOR ABBEY PAINTER FASHION DIRECTOR NAOMI NEILL FEATURES WRITER GRACE INSOLE FEATURES WRITER NAOMI NEILL CONTRIBUTOR HEATHER WOODS
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Postcard From Heather
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What to take on a road trip
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Clacket Lane
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Street Particulars
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The Age of The Instagram Documentary Photographer
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Postcard from Heather In Motion 13.11.13 Nomad’s Land Hotel London Humans of New York KT19 Rambling Stockists Postcard from Heather Cellar Mixtape
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A series of postcards from Heather Woods, the editor’s family friend, taking us along on her different journeys. Heather Woods was brought up in Hove, and went on to Exeter University to study an MA in Ancient History. A love of travel and exploring has taken her all over the world. From Syria, to India, and across the United States, Heather has embraced different cultures, and broadened her outlook on the World. Despite having a husband and three children, Heather prefers to travel alone, enabling herself to really get lost within a new place, and have an adventure. Along her way, Heather has made life lasting friends, with whom she now travels to meet with in the far corners of the World.
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10 THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN TAKING A ROAD TRIP.
Christmas holidays from work are due, and I really fancied doing something different, works been hectic and time with my friends has been seriously lacking. Have had a great idea, a road trip! Meandering the country lanes of England at a VERY slow pace, stopping where we want, when we want. Which direction, I don’t know but who cares? Ok, how do I sort this? What’s my plan? Feet up, and here goes…Result! A plan! Who will I go with? Very importat, chose the right people – boys and girls? Or just girls? Majorly important, I first of all need to decide what I want to do on this trip, chill out, relax, laugh, travel but more importantly get away from what I do daily, explore new places and do new things. How many people? Ill keep it to 4 so me and my friend have room to spread out in the back, and don’t have to be limited on how many extra pairs of shoes we bring because there will be plenty of space! Okay, so 2 boys,2 girls (all of us who drive). How did I get to that conclusion you may ask. The answer – male pride! There’s no way on earth the lads will want to be passengers when they drive soooo much better than us! At least this will mean me and my friend can relax and not have to worry about getting us lost.
What will we do on the trip? So, where are we going to go? Decision made is that the best plan is always to have no plan. It will be much more exciting to get in the car and just go, but we don’t want tp end up n the middle of nowhere! I want to go somehwere ive never been before, so I decide lets head north, I’m not sure how far up north but maybe somehwere in the country side where we can go on long walks and explore, rather than walking round shops and watching rubbish television like we usually do! A few quiet old country pubs wouldn’t be so bad either. How long will we go for? 4 days 3 nights, that is more than enough. I don’t want to spend too much time with the gang, or too much money, especially with it being so close to the holidays. Maybe the place we will visit will have cool, quirky shops or markets I can buy good gifts. Set a budget and stick with it. So we agree on a reasonable ammount and pool it all together, this makes it easier as its avalible for eveything we need. Including petrol, food drinks etc. But it does go without saying that I will be taking some extra cash for that unexpected emergency, just incase I see something I just have to have and cant resist!
Check the car. Big decision, whos car? Things we need to take into consideration will be, whos is bigger? We don’t want to have to be too limited on our luggage after all it is a 4 day trip. Whos is newer? We don’t want to use my old rusty car, we wont even make it to the motorway without breaking down, and we certanly don’t want to be stranded on a old country lane in the middle of the night! We decide Paul’s golf is our best and probably safest bet. Pack supplies. The important part! We limit our selves to one hold all each for clothes and 1 small bag of toiletries. Other things we must remember are blankets, just incase we find ourselves in the middle of nowhere very late in the night and need to sleep in the car. Toilet roll is also a must, I don’t plan for upexpected stops on the way and hiding behind bushes, but it’s a definate possibility! Take care of food and snack needs. Of course we need food, and drink to get us through the trip too so a trip to the supermarket to buy snacks is essential – maybe a few bottles of wine and a carte of beer aswell, just incase! Pack a map and/or GPS
Definitely not a Sat Nav, we don’t want to plan were we’re going . A map is a must though, in case we end up in the middle of nowhere with no supplies. With this in mind – make sure theres a good supply of crisps, toilet roll, and water! Have each person create a playlist with a theme for the car ride. This was the fun part, this will took me weeks to plan my playlist, I didn’t know where to begin! Should Abba go on this or will this cause trouble and be turned off instantly? Maybe I stick to ‘cool’ stuff and leave the cheesy kareoke classics for when I have my headphones in! Take care driving. Now im organised, im excited! Ive struggled to get my bags in the boot, mine is bigger and much heavier than I planned, and I sneakily shove extra shoes quietly into the corners of the boot so the boys don’t make me choose between my 3 pairs of boots, because it would be impossible! My playist is on and away we go.
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CL AC KETT LANE.
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STREET PARTICULARS. CRAIG DANCER, 37. VINTAGE RETAILER “Where are you going?”
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“Where are you going?” Craig Dancer, 37. Vintage Retailer
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“Where are you going?” sarah doyle, 25. graphic designer.
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“Where are you going?” Will & anna, 23 &27. shop assistants
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“Often people focus too much on the arrival at the destination and don’t realize that it is the journey they take to get there that is the most important. The journey is where you live, learn, and experience; the destination is just the result of this.”
“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Believe in yourself If you want to arrive to the final destination.”
“Where are you going?”
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DAN RALPH, 27. BRAND MANAGER
JORDAN BELL, 30 JEWELLERY DESIGNER
“Highbury & Islington. For a team meeting.” CELLAR
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“Where are you going?” john robinson, 50 town planner “Back to my office in Hanover Square” CELLAR
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The Age of the instagram documentary photographer.
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hotography is changing, a fact that society cannot deny, as we play a key part in this change. Instagram, the world wide photo sharing app phenomenon, is constantly evolving and pushing the way we create, share and consume images, with more images being uploaded to the internet in the last year alone, than the last 100 years combined. Instagram is part of an on-going trend of photo editing and sharing apps, that in turn have become a part of our cultural eco-system. Documentary photography is a vital element of the Instagram community. The ability to upload an image seconds after you have taken it, and have it reach an audience spanning across the world, takes the notion of documenting a moment to a whole new level.
Phone cameras are being made tohigher and higher standards than ever before, and soon will most probably reflect the resolution of a great SLR camera, that you can conveniently carry in your pocket. Regarding the “anyone can be a photographer” debate, photographer Alan Chin (@alanschin) stated that “anyone has always been able to be a photographer, starting with the introduction of the Kodak in the 1880s. Instagram and these other tech tools may make it seem more ‘fun’ - but photography was always fun.”
”Anyone has always been able to be a photographer” However, this could be what makes being a successful documentary photographer now so much more difficult, what is it that makes your image stand out? why should we like or comment on it? Photographers now have to approach their work in a whole new way, considering how the aesthetics of an image will relay on Instagram, both before and after using one of the numerous filters that come with the app itself. There has been mass debate over whether Instagram photos count as photography, which photographer Henry Jacobson (@postcardshome) has commented on, describing the debate as “bullshit... because the greatest photographers of all time edited their pictures in a darkroom. This is the same debate from the 90’s about digital cameras and Photoshop.”
Melissa Little One more from under the 900 ft. rainbow flag
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”It’s a visual diary of sorts”
ALAN CHIN #DELAY #TRAVEL #WAITING
”Photography is a Universal language”
SIM CHI YIN #seoul #subway #korea
MELISSA LYTTLE PARADE WATCHERS
Cellar spoke to a number of different documentary photographers on Instagram, trying to get an insight into how they feel about the app, how it has changed their work and subsequently the way they work. Photographer for the Tampa Bay Times, Melissa Lyttle (@melissalyttle) is an avid Instagram user, viewing the app as a way to “make photographer more accessible and easier to share your work. It has made it more interactive, with which there are certainly pros and cons.” When asked for an example of each, Lyttle described covering a punk show for an assignment, “during which I was submitting images for my Instagram account. Immediately people at the venue were tagging themselves, commenting on the images, including the bands, who were then immediately sharing those images on their social networks, getting more exposure to both the images and the paper.” When asked for a con, Lyttle commented on young photographers with “incredibly over-inflated egos” from a few likes, and “worse, getting really upset when no one likes or comments on their images. As if it’s somehow a validation of your worth as a photographer.” Ideas such as this are really important when considering using Instagram as your main photography platform, yes it is great to gain a lot of followers and have people like and comment on your images, but is this where we will see the downfall in quality when it comes to the images themselves? Will photographers see it as more important to upload constantly, instead of spending time considering what image to upload, and why they want to upload it in the first place? Lyttle commented “Filters and apps may make work look cool, but a lousy photo is still a lousy photo.” Photograper Sim Chi Yin (@chiyin_ sim) sees Instagram as more of “a fun thing to do, an extra way for professional photographers to be seen, to remain in people’s consciousness” and a way of “reaching a different audience of non-photographers as well as photographers.”
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When asked what attracted Yin to Instagram, she explained that “it’s a visual diary of sorts. I get to be free in what I shoot, and how i shoot it, so what I do on Instagram can be a lot more experimental than an assignment I shoot.” The global outreach of Instagram Yin sees as a pro, as the New Yorker approached Yin about taking over their instagram account in New York for a week from Beijing, where Yin is based, and “From that I got to know several Chinese photographers who are also on Instagram. And when I posted from Shanghai, people based in Shanghai reached out with tips, asking to meet, asking me to go give talks at their office etc. So it’s really a branch of social media in connecting people.” Yin also commented that “although Instagram may not translate directly into professional practice, there are picture editors looking through Instagram, seeing who is shooting what in which country, which in turn may make them more likely to get in contact for an assignment.” Lyttle described instagram as “doing a lot to help cultivate a community”, as if this large world we live in is being brought together and united by a simple photo sharing app. I asked Lyttle if she felt Instagram created more rivalry between documentary photographers such as herself, to which she responded by saying that it is pushing everyone in new and different directions of friendly competition. Lyttle also commented on how it has put photographers from around the world in touch with her, and in turn she with them, enabling her to have conversations via comments across the world, and how “photography truly is a universal language.” By Grace Insole
Sim Chi Yin Life in passing #shanghai subway
Alan Chin #amtrak #domecar #goldenhour
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IN MOTION.
Photography by Silviu Doroftei Styling by Grace Insole & Abbey Painter CELLAR
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13.11.13 Movement, people, habits‌ Have you ever thought that we, as human beings, are trapped into a repetitive cycle that seems to never end? Cellar went out and tried to capture people throughout their daily journey, with the aim of telling their story through a series of reportage photographs.
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NOMAD’S LAND.
Photography Craig Hemming Styling Naomi Neill & Abbey Painter Hair & Makeup Grace Insole CELLAR
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Hotel London sees Cellar taking the concept of “on the road’ indoors, by photographing a series of unique hotels, capturing the intimacy and emotion, of which hotels provide. 79
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KT19. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CRAIG HEMMING STYLING BY NAOMI NEILL & ABBEY PAINTER HAIR & MAKE-UP CHARLOTTE RUTHERFORD MODELS FROM TYNE & TEES NEWCASTLE
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RAMBLING.
The Epsom and Ewell Ramblers were formed as part of the Ramblers Association in 1987. Based in Epsom and Ewell, Surrey, they organise up to four rambles per week, most commonly in the Surrey countryside, and sometimes further afield, organising one or two group walking holidays throughout the year. Cellar joined the ramblers on a walk in Horton Country Park, getting to know the members, their stories and documenting the scenery along the road.
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“Walking would teach people the quality that youngsters find so hard to learn - patience.”
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“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.�
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“A long walk can help me to reach a state of clarity much more easily than any other practice that I’ve ever discovered, and walks have often helped me through difficult times in my life”
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“Above all do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday I walk myself into a state of well being and walk away from every illness.�
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TERRANOVA PROJECT
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CELLAR MIX-TAPE. PAUL SIMON - negotiations and love songs john carpenter soundtracks the killers - hot fuss oasis - (whats the story) morning glory? stereophonics - decade in the sun david bowie - Best of bowie aRCTIC MONKEYS - AM BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - born in the usa MUSE - black holes and revelations KINGS OF LEON - only by the night RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS - by the way BASTILLE - ALL THIS BAD BLOOD
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