When Vivian contacted me and Ilana to tell us about her new protege and the gig that she had organized at Bush Hall for him, we got very excited. We don’t see Vivian very often, but she has this amazing energy coming from her. It is always a pleasure to have her!
So we headed there, and listened to the smooth tunes of PJ Morton – Deep into the Atlanta Soul Music Vibe! Really nice stuff, go and have a listen: www.myspace.com/pjmorton.
Like any creative, I constantly look for more ways to broaden my horizons and fine tune my skills on the job. It’s not that I am not satisfied with where I am since I’ve never been as busy before. It’s just that lately the Photography market has been dictating what I’d be shooting.
So I joined Beatnik Online, a wonderful adventure to me, a place where I am free to express my creativity and explore new ways of portraying people on the music scene. The team is young and motivated, passionate and very simply put: Extremely good at what they do!
And guess what: IT IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED!!
So far, 2 features I have shot are online, Click on the links for the review:
Live performance to music
I just wanted to write a quick post about yesterday’s encounter. Julien is a very talented guy who I met at an event I was covering. And as we’re both french, you can imagine we had a chat and talked about each other’s passion. And I have to say, I never expected this.
What HE does is really, like REALLY REALLY impressive and inspiring. Go and check him out here: http://kaalam.free.fr/ – Amazing! And since we said we might do a little project together in London, stay tuned, you never know.
I will let you know more in time anyway.
Bye for now!
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A last minute call and I am off to cover a dance class by Strictly Come Dancing stars Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova. This is how one of our contact, the Glaziers Hall, decided to celebrate Christmas and treat their employees. How fun is that?
So I thought I’d throw a couple of pics from the session:
Here is a gig I was quite surprised by. Because, I’m not usually into anything too rock/blues… -ish! But I was pleasantly surprised by James’ performance. And the way the crowd reacted to it really well. All in all a pretty good concert.
If you want to know more about it and read the review that these photos were for, check it out here on Blues And Soul Magazine.
Now, a few photos:
As some of you know already, I did take part in the 4th Plinth Project in London. And as I posted about it, I wanted to now share some of the result from the day. I used a Bronica medium format (which uses 120 Film Rolls) and took a series of 12 photos.
Here it is, straight out from the scan, the best 5: (more…)
So yesterday I covered the last event from the RSA. A very interesting and educating evening, I have to admit. All the designers made RDI are amazing people, who have contributed to the design world in such a way you would never guess. Some have designed elements of the James Bond movies, like one of the supercars. Some others created pieces of furniture and other concepts that made it around the world.
So as each new RDI was introduced, his/her work were shown, explained and commented on the big screen before receiving their awards. Here are a couple of shots of the short evening:
I have been a big Maxwell fan for over 10 years now, and I was waiting for his return to Europe for quite some time. So when the new album “BLACKsummers’ night” was announced I contacted B&S Magazine and told the editor he had to get me this gig! And thanks to him it happened.
Now I got there, all excited, and the first surprise was that I seemed to be the only photographer… But once I got to the pit, the security guys told me that Maxwell’s management was not allowing anyone in the front of the stage, and that I had to shoot from either side. I could not move from side to side once the gig would start. And as you guys probably know by now if you have been following my blog, we are only allowed to shoot the first 3 songs with no flash. It’s not systematic, but almost.
Then the gig started, Maxwell appeared on stage from behind the curtain. The lights went off, and to my surprise, he was only lit from one side… And yes, you got it, my second surprise: it’s lit from the other side! Turns out there was another photographer, and lucky she was to be on the right side!
So here we are, hit the jump for a series of dark silhouette on the stage…
