tom midlaneTHOMAS MIDLANE is the writer/director/conceiver of the piece ‘THE NEWSPAPERWOMAN.’

INFLUENCES: Edgar Allan Poe, Billy Wilder, David Lynch, Punchdrunk, Film Noir

INFLUENCES + (although not especially on this piece): Thomas Pynchon, JG Ballard
BIO: In his day job as a JOURNO with an international press agency, THOMAS trawls the dark heart of the internet in search of the WEIRD & WONDERFUL. In ‘The Newspaperwoman’ he transmutes the GALLOWS humour of the newsroom into something altogether more DARK and menacing.

BellaBELLA FRANKS is an

ARTIST

PHOTOGRAPHER

CREATIVE.

Her work focuses  on the HUMAN FORM.

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She completed a foundation year of art at CITY & GUILDS in London before studying Sociology & History of Art at University. After this she completed a foundation in commercial photography to increase her skill set in creative outputs. She has worked on art event teams at charities & teaches a weekly drawing class to homeless people at CRISIS. She also hosts a number of life drawing classes across London as well as running a weekly pop-up life drawing session and lunch at her own home which is attended by a wide group of her creative friends, including musicians, artists, photographers and the like.

Bella works more jobs than she has fingers & tends to fly between them on her ROLLER BLADES. She loves life, particularly when it’s experienced on wheels. She dresses in as many COLOURS as she can & her bag is always filled with colouring pencils and pens for her to inject into her life drawing studies. She is inspired by the energy of others & works to illuminate this through her work.

WE shot her in her house and garden sporting a vintage 60s dress from Screaming Mimi’s as well as a variety of hats.

FOLLOW/INTERACT with HER on

TWITTER @BellaFranks

&

INSTAGRAM @Bella_Franks