Gallagher is caught on camera

A new exhibition documenting the 18 months that Noel Gallagher spent recording his first solo album opens today.

London photographer Lawrence Weston, 63, began chronicling the High Flying Birds process imagining it would be a five-week recording session.

But instead it became a much longer journey that took the two men to Los Angeles where Gallagher, 44, worked in the Sunset Sound studio.

The former Oasis star said: "Lawrence has always been around when I've been in the studio. It wouldn't be the same without him to be honest."

The exhibition runs at the Londonewcastle Project Space in Shoreditch until November 13.