Zoe Cormier | Personal

Personal Pics

This gallery contains my favourite photographs from my private life. Many are not here because they display my photographic skills so much as because they represent the situations I typically find myself in the and people and places I’ve been lucky enough to see – and thus illustrate the kind of person that I am.

: Sunset, off the coast of Cornwall, near Padstow. March 7, 2010.

: Self portrait, in the hills of the West Highland Way in Scotland. October 14 2009.

: From the art installation The Horned Skullship, at Pestival at the Southbank Centre in London, a three day festival celebrating insects in art. September 6 2009.

: My friend, composer Florian Tenant, playing David Byrne’s The Building at the Roundhouse in London. August 28 2009.

: Roseanne, whom I call my Roses, who is not just one of my best friends in the world, but also one of my favourite people. Her birthday, a very spangled morning. August 22 2009.

: My wife and I, at silly o’clock in the morning. I think the imprint of my facepainted flowers elsewhere on my face is a nice touch. August 22 2009.

: My friend Roseanne is a deft hand with face paint. “Roses, can you please put my dress on my face please?” August 22 2009.

: Shamima and her amazing contact lenses. August 2 2009.

: My friend Daniel enjoying a good twirling from Mark. August 8 2009.

: Daniel, upside down, immediately after a good twirling by Mark. I think his brother Peter’s bare feet rather complement the photo. August 8 2009

: Wifey and Harky, post party. July 27 2009.

: Self portrait, with the self timer, at the very end of the Secret Garden Party. I think the dark clouds make the shot. July 26 2009.

: Hungryman and Wife, at the apex of the Secret Garden Party. July 24 2009.

: My favourite costume from the Secret Garden Party that year. July 25 2009.

: My favourite art installation at the Latitude music festival. July 18 2009.

: My friend Dan at my birthday on Hampstead Heath – he thought he had swine flu. July 14 2009.

: For my best friend Lily’s 25th birthday, we gave her a human pyramid. July 3 2009.

: Fantastically drunk and theatrical strangers are a regular occurrence on the London underground. May 10 2009.

: Guerilla Science founder Richard Bowdler, doing some guerilla brainstorming. May 20 2009.

: My “Wife” Bex on the left, Neon in the middle, and me – the three residents of what we like to call Castle Fabulous, also known as The House Of Words. May 2 2009.

: My friend and web support manager Jack, gathering wild garlic near his cottage in the Cotswolds. May 10 2009.

: My friend Boo, who moved from web design to working for Greenpeace. Taken in one of our favourite places, the Cotswolds. May 12 2009.

: Bored on the nightbus, I was trying to photographically represent the concept of auditory orgasms (what happens everytime somebody listens to music, I contend). The guy behind me obviously found it rather amusing. April 22 2009.

: People With AIDS Plaza, in central New York. I will never understand why no city planners questioned the name. March 11 2009.

: My cousin Ella, at 10 years old. I describe this age as “King Kid” – she’s at the apex of kid-dom, the most confident and capable a kid can be – before the earth-shattering transmutations of puberty set in. March 10 2009.

: Some graffiti I quite liked, on the London underground system. February 5 2009.

: One of the keys to good photography is the way in which you interact with your subjects, which can be just as (if not more) important than having a strong technical understanding of your equipment. I saw these guys horsing around on the tube platform, and simply said: “Work it guys.” January 31 2009.

: My beautiful friend Zuzia, with her beautiful daughter Yarah. January 21 2009.

: After we put in a composter, my garden was full of the most massive orb weavers, who moved in after all the flies did. Ecology is cool. September 15 2008.

: Spider vs. Bee. The spider won. September 15 2008.

: My best friend, Lily, who is quite possibly the prettiest girl in the world. August 30 2008.

: Zuzia and Nigel, two days before Yarah was born. June 17 2008.

: My “Wife” Bex at Notting Hill Carnival. (She no longer smokes.) August 24 2008.

: Lily and Flo, resting from the summer sun at the Secret Garden Party. July 25 2008.

: Me with my “Wife”, at the Secret Garden Party, our favourite music festival. July 24 2008.

: My next door neighbour, Ahmed, who loves me perhaps more fervently than any man ever has, with the passion that only a seven-year-old heart can muster. July 10 2008.

: My best friend Lily, concealing that she is in fact the prettiest girl in the world. July 3 2008.

: My brother, Ben, in the snow leopard ski hat our mother made for him 15 years ago. March 16 2008.

: Going up the chair lift on the slopes of Madonna, a Vermont peak I have been skiing on since I was a child. March 16 2008.

: Aaron, and Shmoo. February 9 2008.

: I love that though the law now prohibits it, people still drink on London’s underground system. Hats off to these guys, who really showed dedication to the cause. Made me consider getting a picnic table, a checkered tablecloth and some olives and bread next time I neck a tall boy on the tube. March 4 2008.

: I have a bad habit of photographing myself when I’m tipsy and on the way home. February 12 2008.

: James Louis Steel of the Brute Chorus, a band I like to describe as Iggy Pop meets Oh Brother Where Art Thou. August 5 2007.

: Zuzia and Nigel, who are now married with a beautiful baby girl. July 22 2008.

: My first boyfriend and I, at the close of a decade long romance. March 3 2007.

: My friend Karyn and her niece Myla at Riverdale Farm in Toronto. September 5 2006.

: This waterfall spills through a public garden in Barcelona, Spain, near the old Olympic park. June 28 2006.

: My friend Peter Farrel spinning fire poi over the head of his sister Katy. I love Katy’s nonchalance, ignoring her brother’s attempt to disturb her. July 2 2006.

: My friend Katy Farrel spinning fire poi with great skill. July 2 2006.

: Keyboardist for London band The Chap, performing at Barfly in Camden, London. June 30 2006.

: My brother and I, with our mum sandwiched in between. April 22 2006.

: My first boyfriend and I, almost a decade after we met. March 20 2006.

: City planners were demolishing Regent Park, a gigantic housing project in the middle of Toronto. I snapped this picture shortly after the rest of the building was knocked over and a day before this chunk was brought down. July 10 2006.

: This ginger cat was clearly enjoying the summer day on the Toronto Islands. July 18 2006.

: Mount Royal in Montreal – a large lush park atop the city. May 4 2006.

: A bromeliad in Westmount Greenhouse in Montreal. May 3 2006.

: My friend Evi and her boyfriend Dave, outside his gig at the Free Times Cafe in Toronto. October 30 2006.

: Self portrait. I like duty free. March 8 2006.

: My cousin Ella. February 04 2006.

: My best friend, Kier, by a wall in central London. February 03 2006.

: Selt portrait, in the Cotswolds, England. December 12 2005.

: My friend and web designer Boo Hodgetts on the shores of Brighton. November 12 2005.

: Self Portrait. November 1 2005.

: My friend Rory O’Brien, who is always effortlessly dapper and cool. September 21 2005.

: My best friend Kier and I doing what we do. October 26 2005.

: I didn’t know who these kids were when I shot them through the window of a London night bus, and I don’t think I ever will. September 02 2005.

: One of my favourite people, musician Florian Tenant, next to one of my favourite places, the Thames. October 15 2005.

: I snapped this photo from the window of my flight from London to Toronto as it passed by the shores of Greenland. March 8 2006.

: The Colourscape art installation – no longer on tour after it blew into the air carrying visitors with it – in London. August 30 2005.

: Fresh frost on ivy at six in the morning in the far west corner of London, England, near the new Wembley Stadium. November 19 2005.

: My favourite exhibit ever to be put on in the turbine hall at the Tate Modern in London, The Sun by Olafur Eliasson. I snapped this anonymous couple’s private moment unnoticed. December 29 2003.

: My friend, musician and originator Darien Davis. December 27 2003.

: My friend Darien Davis, arboreal expert, up a tree on Hampstead Heath in London. July 12 2003.

: My friend Darien Davis blowing a bubble in Normandy, France, near Dieppe. July 11 2003.

: One of many postcard-perfect shots from Normandy, France, near Dieppe. July 10 2003.

: Self portrait on Hampstead Heath, London, when I was feeling a bit mopey. June 15 2003.

: My cousin Ella (3) has woken up early with lots of energy. Mary, my aunt, is just not yet ready to get up – so Ruby assumes the position of Mother and tends to Ella so her mother can rest. June 6 2003.

: My cousin Ella (3) in her garden in Brooklyn, New York. June 5 2003.