Last year’s A Year In Loo print was scarily successful, so I’ve made a new one for 2011′s loos. I’m well proud of this – it’s the same format, an A3 card digi-print showing my 72 favourite loos from #loo2011.

Just as last year, the new print is on uncoated 300gsm card in a signed, hand-numbered limited edition of 253. This time it also comes with an A4 printed b/w sheet identifying each loo – much more fun when you know where they are. Buy it in the shop now for £20 (including postage and packaging), while stocks last.

Meanwhile #loo2012 is picking up speed. I’m very pleased that a couple of weeks ago I finally photographed Gypo and Jo’s loo in Port St Mary on the Isle Of Man, because that was the original inspiration for the loos. I’ll publish a whole series of photographs from that one loo next month.

In January 2010, I began taking a photo each time I went in a loo; posting them to Twitter with the hashtag #loo2010. At the end of the year I wanted to stop but hadn’t done enough trips overseas, so felt I had to keep going (new hashtag #loo2011) until I’d at least captured some European and North American loos. I caught 180 loos in 2010.

The original inspiration was the loo of my friends Gypo and Jo, in Port St Mary on the Isle Of Man. They decorated the walls and ceiling with countless little plastic trolls and also made a musical toilet roll dispenser. It’s a fantastic room, in fact their entire home has been so stunningly beautifully decorated in a mash-up of psychedelia, folk-art and kitsch, it’s like no other. Frustratingly I haven’t been back since I started, so it’s not been captured yet – but I will.

The vague rules are:
(1) Photos are usually the toilet itself or the cistern but (2) if there’s something more interesting, I’ll snap that instead. (3) There’s no connection to what I’ve been doing in the loo: often I’ll go in a loo not to use it, for example changing clothes in venues without dressing rooms, or washing hands. (4) I only capture a loo once; the first time I visit it, (5) unless it receives a major overhaul.

I can’t tell you why I started, or why I have to keep going, hopefully I’ll be able to stop at the end of 2011. I made a limited edition A3 card print – A Year In Loo – of 72 loos from 2010. It was an edition of 253 and there are a few left HERE. Partly this is to raise money to fulfil my dream of a loo photo book. I’ve taken a lot of ‘support’ photos nobody’s seen as well, of different details in the loos, so there is a lot of material.