A couple of weeks ago I went to an excellent gig featuring Baby Long Legs, The Scaramanga Six and Atoness. Took lots of photos, as ever; this time, for the first time, I’ve saved a few of them in black & white, to get away from that “everything’s gone red” effect. Much though I always claim to hate black & white photography, I have to say I’m quite pleased with the results (certainly much nicer than having everything in red). All of the photos were very quick & dirty edits, because there were so many I liked and I had so little time to play with them. Nevertheless, here is my latest selection of photos, plus a slightly more detailed write-up of the gig.
It’s funny how photography assignments are like buses, you wait ages for one to come along, then loads appear all at once.
It’s been a little like that recently. December and January were barren months for photography, then at the end of January I got my photo exhibition
and a few other little things.
A few days ago I got asked to photograph somebody’s birthday party, then today, all sorts of exciting emails & stuff. First of all, this lot arrived at the door, courtesy of Amazon’s fastest ever “Super Saver” delivery (approx. 5 working hours):
Then I got an email asking me to photograph an art event on Thursday (for money!), another email from Vice Magazine asking to use some photos I took at one of their Vice Kills gigs (for no money, but what the hell, I owe them a few and they ended up linking directly to the photos on my site, which is nice). And then I sold my first framed print (this one). In between times, I got an email from somebody saying they wanted to model for me (I don’t really have anything for models to do, but it was a nice offer anyway).
Not bad going for one day. Let’s see what tomorrow holds…
I was recently interviewed by the members of the Sheffield Flickr Group.
The interview is online here.
This blog is six years old today.
Last night was the opening of my photo exhibition at the Washington. There was a fairly good turn out, almost all other photographers.
First of all Lloyd arrived all the way from Leeds. We had a really good chat about the photography workshops I’m running next month, Lloyd had heaps of useful advice and I feel far more confident about how I’m going to approach the workshops now.
Next Christiane turned up fresh from a talk at the Site Gallery by Jerwood winner Daniel Gustav Cramer. Jacqui and Steve turned up, as did Paula (polly.jane) from the Sheffield Flickr group . Geraldine arrived with her family, only to find out that kids aren’t allowed in the Washington, so she sent them home and came in herself. And I finally got to have a proper chat with Moses/0742 (who I have photographed before, but only managed to talk to in brief drunken fits) and his friend Steve Withington, AKA Carlos Barcode. Steve and Christiane seemed to get into some sort of very heated debate over whether one needs formal art training to be an art photographer, or something like that (I didn’t catch very much of it), which I would like to have got involved in but I was busy talking to half-a-dozen other people. Moses told me all about the making of his Fargate video, and a bit about his past - working with the Human League, burning a million quid with the KLF…
Nort and Mark T turned up, and around about that time, things started getting a little fuzzy and I only have pictoral memories to remind me of the rest of the evening.
A few photos from last night - it was almost worth my van falling in a ditch, to get out in the beautiful, snowy, dark, mysterious countryside and take pictures like this.
I have my first ever photo exhibition opening next week - Washtock & Beyond, live music photos from Sheffield. Opening night is next Wednesday (14th February - bring your valentine!) at the Washington, 79 Fitzwilliam Street, Sheffield S1 4JP. Map here.
The exhibition will continue until early May.
Thanks to Marcin for design the poster and flyers.
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