“Mostly you’ll find me hiding behind a camera.”
– Tony Bell, SixtyTwoThings
At one point in my career I was editing a magazine, writing HTML code, learning to juggle Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, designing graphics, listing gigs, writing reviews, conducting interviews, providing tech support, selling advertising (badly), taking photographs, drawing stuff… someone asked me one day how many things I did, sixty-two I quipped. That is how SixtyTwoThings came about.
The number was not as random as you might think. My parents house, where I grew up was number 62. Our house, where I live today with my wife is number 62 – a different house, in a different country.
However, my work also appears with other watermarks…
For many years I operated as a photographer under my own name, Tony Bell Photography. That was fine when all I did was take photographs. Then I was asked to write reviews about the events I photographed. That morphed into interviewing the people I was photographing. “Tony Bell Photography” no longer said what I did on the tin! Along the way there were collaborations, partnerships and much merryment.
Working alongside my good friend Julz under her brand Tranquil Soul Photography was a privilege, not to mention great fun. Covid put an end to our major project together; on reflection the timing was right for that one. There are no future collaborations planned… yet..!
What are the gig listings all about?
During my time at Grapevine Magazine and The East Anglian Festival Network I listed countless events across the East of England. Some habits are hard to break so I’ve built my own gig listing pages, feel free to add your gigs to it.