Welcome to a new series on the Oh Comely blog called 'Photo Wednesday'. We get sent incredible work by photographers, and every week we'll publish the strongest submissions here. To be involved, submit your photography via our Flickr group, or email an edit to [email protected].

To start things off, here's a selection of images by Natalie Kucken, shot on location at the Billy Johnson Playground in Central Park, New York. Inspired by Sofia Coppola, innocence and imagination, the shoot's stylist Jaclyn Bethany brings together upcoming and established designers for playful, pell-mell layering. Check out her Audrey Grace Boutique for more inspiration.

Photo 1. Caroline wears dress by Misha Nonoo, top (worn underneath) by Vivetta, and necklace by Jessica Graham

Photo 2. Caroline wears dress by Misha Nonoo, top (worn underneath) by Vivetta, tights by Topshop, and shoes model’s own

Photo 3. Caroline wears coat by Jessica Graham, jean jacket by Cheap Monday, tights by Topshop and dress by Misha Nonoo

Photography: Natalie Kucken
Styling: Jaclyn Bethany
Makeup and Hair: Caroline Baribeau
Stylist’s Assistant: Akilah Walker
Models: Caroline West at ELITE Direct and Lucy Moore at IMG

Photographer Liz Schaffer is an eternal tourist and her most recent wanderlust found her in Croatia. Initially drawn to the country for its azure waters, beautiful city streets and national penchant for gelato, as she wound her way from Split to Dubrovnik, what she ended up documenting was the washing lines.

Her photographs of laundry - a selection of which we present below - are proof that when travelling you can never plan what your eye will be drawn to. For more on Liz's adventures visit her website and Flickr.

We Not Me Collective are offering an Oh Comely reader a very special prize: they'll photograph your wedding for free.

Tom Ravenshear, the photographer behind We Not Me, says his work is relaxed, spontaneous and uniquely crafted. We say it's wedding photography you've never seen before: full of laughter and quiet pauses, still life and fast dances. We Not Me photograph weddings where people are simply having a lot of fun and you can tell it. Have a browse at some of the weddings they've photographed here. 

To win, Tom wants to know a little about your wedding. You see, they're on the hunt for curious, creative and friendly occasions, and they thought Oh Comely readers would be the people to ask. Send a couple of photos to help paint a picture of what you envisage for the big day to [email protected], and some details of what where and when.

To enter, your wedding should be scheduled to take place by the 23rd June 2013. We'd also love to include one or two photos from the day in Oh Comely, so you should be happy to share your wedding pictures with other readers!

A new exhibition at Proud Chelsea pays homage to the renowned Hollywood photographer Bob Willoughby, with a display of his work spanning over three decades.

His portraits dominated the pages of lifestyle and culture magazines in the American midcentury, and he was well known for capturing actors as various as Katherine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean in character and, occasionally, preoccupied in quiet pauses off stage. 

Below is a teaser of images that you'll find at the show. All are on display at Bob Willoughby: The Silver Age of Hollywood, Proud Chelsea, from 8th November 2012 to 13th January 2013.

Photo: Elizabeth Taylor on the MGM set of Raintree County, 1956 © Bob Willoughby

Photo: Mia Farrow, on set of Rosemarys Baby, 1967 © Bob Willoughby

Photo: Goldie Hawn, on the Columbia Studios set of Cactus Flower, 1969 © Bob Willoughby. 

Photographer Laura Trosh knows a thing or two about guerrilla gardening: the (technically illegal) act of planting grey and unused city corners with new plant life. For her course at London College of Communication, she followed a gardening group for a night, documenting their work on a London site.

Here are some of her photographs, along with commentary from Laura about the event. To see more of her work, click along to her website.

Photo: Midnight gardening in London. Laura explains: "For this particular event they were working on one of their main sites in Lambeth. It was a cold March evening, and the night's aim was to strip away the dead lavender bushes and plant new ones." On the left of the image, you can see some of the dead lavender bushes that the group dug up. 

Photo: Young lavender, ready and waiting to be planted. "They've been tending to this patch for six years," Laura says, "and harvest the lavender yearly, using it to make pillows which they sell. All profits are reinvested into the project. It took five separate car journeys to take all the dead lavender away."

Photo: Planting the lavender. "There were about 8 volunteers, ranging from people who are very active in guerrilla gardening, and come to all of the events, to people who had never guerrilla gardened before."

Photo: And, finally, watering the new lavender.

Until I learnt of the I Scream Factory, I didn't consider ice cream as inspiration good for more than an afternoon outdoors in the sun.

Founded in 2010 by Alexandra Plesner it is a collective of artists and photographers exploring the fleeting pleasures of life, incited by the fleeting deliciousness of ice cream. "Life is like ice cream," they say, "eat it before it melts. One lick at a time." Their shared endeavor is to capture moments that melt as quickly as they arrive. 

Here is a selection of their work: for more images, see I Scream Factory or visit the V&A for a one-day display on 16th November.

Photo: Ting Cheng.

Photo: Takeshi Suga.

Photo: Nadia Sarwar.

Photo: Maxim Emelyanov.

The Photocopy Club is a bi-monthly photography exhibition based between Brighton and London. It’s the project of self-published photographer Matt Martin, who first started photocopying his photographs to reproduce them cheaply and to create zines. The aim of Photocopy Club exhibitions is to get photography off the Internet, bringing printed matter back into the hands of the public.

We spoke to Matt before the forthcoming Photography Club show on 25th April at CREATE Studios in Brighton.

Photo: Matt Martin at The Photocopy Club.

Why did you start The Photocopy Club?

I wanted to make a platform for young contemporary photographers to get their work printed and exhibited at the lowest possible cost for the artist. The Photocopy Club is an exhibition that is accessible to everyone, like a giant zine that everyone can take a page from.

Why do you photocopy photographs? 

Printing in a lab has become expensive, so the way I get my own photography out in the world is by releasing photocopied zines and posters. The process is instant and you get an image that has a completely different feel to the original. I used to use photocopies to incorporate my work into the graffiti scene: I’d get my photographs printed as photocopies, A3 size, then wheat paste them all around my hometown.

Did you ever imagine yourself curating exhibitions and has that role changed how you look at photography?

I started working as a curator and photographer just over three years ago with an online gallery for young photographers called We Are Lucky. I love thinking about how images work together, but starting The Photocopy Club hasn’t really changed the way I look at photography. It has taught me a lot about working with a huge body of work.

Photo: Edana Harris's photocopied submission to the Photocopy Club.

Tell me about your own work as a photographer.

I love taking photographs of people and I started out by taking photographs of my friends. This was a lot more of the snapshot style: photographing my mates skating and messing about. In the last year or so I’ve slowed right down. Now I work full time as a photographer, so the work I put out is more considered since it is what I focus on everyday.

Where do you live and why are you based there?

I live in Brighton and moved here just over two years ago to try and get full-time work in photography. I work at CREATE studios and assist photographer Kevin Mason. It took me a over a year and a half of working in telesales and shoe shops to get work in the industry.

In oh comely Issue eight we had three Diana F+ Lomography cameras to giveaway. For a chance to win one, we asked you to send in a photograph that suprised you.

We received many wonderful entries and below are some of our favourites. The last photo is a little gruesome so if you're squeamish, don't scroll far down.

Photo by Emma: 'I took this photo when I was seven or eight, on a visit to a sheep farm. It was dark so the flash went off, but at the time I didn't know what effect flash had when photographing eyes. I've liked this photograph enough to keep it for nearly ten years and it still makes me smile.'

Photo by Esmee: 'This cyclist came out of nowhere on a super sunny day in Hossegor, France. I think it makes my otherwise happy-chappy friend look quite sinister.'

Photo by Heather: 'I took this photograph in St. Ives, Cornwall on my New Years visit down. Walking on the front of St. Ives, I noticed this little crowd of birds, all huddled on the steps. It was particularly windy and they were sat watching the waves roll in over the sand. When one came crashing their way, they would dodge aside before returning to their spot on the steps. I think they were enjoying themselves just as much as we were watching them.'

Photo by Louise: 'This is Cliffords Tower in York. I think it looks beautiful and evokes Summer perfectly, with washed-out and dreamy soft colours.'

Photo by Ruth of The Isle of Dogs, London.

Photo by Emma: 'We were on our way back from a night out and found this cat in the middle of the road. We moved him onto the pavement and called the RSPA to come and get him.'