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This overarching project blends my love of electronic and other forms of music with photography, charting the underground clubbing and festival scene in Leeds and further afield. Here I am at the other extreme, working with high-end digital equipment to create images which reproduce the feeling of the clubbing and festival environment through distortion of time and space using irregular perspectives and slow shutter speeds causing visual artifacts such as light trails.
I am available to shoot events as part of this project. Depending on the event, fees are negotiable and may be minimal and on an expenses basis if I think that it will help with this project and I would enjoy the night.
Dance events can be difficult to shoot – often attendees will post blurry and washed out images to social media which does nothing to capture the feel of your event. Similarly getting exciting media shots of DJs and electronic artists can be hard – they don’t jump about as much as guitarists!
I am experienced in this kind of work and produce exciting and vibrant images of your event – getting you the discussion and hits on facebook pages that you need to keep the night in people’s mind and ensure they tell their mates and come again.
Events I have worked with have included Hyde Park Unity Day, Beaverfest, Mush, Sunrise, Remedy, The Beats Bizarre, Lime Tree Festival and Kendal Calling dance tents as well as various gigs around Leeds.
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s been a very long time… I think the last time I went out anywhere substantial was new year nearly 4 years ago, and it’s suffice to say I’ve been a little dormant on the photography front. This has been a combination of a few …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes After a certain amount of thought, I have decided to cull the Images From The Underground Website. There’s a few reasons for this – to be fair, in the days of social media, the people who I would like to engage with this project do …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Another Quick Images from The Underground update. The Latest Remedy, with Lab4 playing which was of course a treat for me!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Another installment of Sunrise at the West Indian Centre. As ever I will just let these images speak for themselves.
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve been down to a couple of events recently to shoot for the promoters. Bunker 13 is a night at Eiger Studios in Leeds, playing industrial, EBM, dark electro and aggrotech. I’d seen flyers for this night, and aimed to check it out as I like the …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Another Images from the Underground set Sunrise at the West Indian Centre.
Reading Time: 5 minutes What upsets me here is that what has been gained from this? An charity event has lost a set of images which I provided to them pro-bono to help them as a crew and promote the work they did. I will obviously not be shooting their events again, as it seems internal politics have led to a situation where members of the promotional team do not know what other members have agreed, and I don’t really want to be working in that situation. One less club on the list for me, one less photographer on the list for them. The DJ himself has lost the use of the image he wanted to use in the first place and the possibility of some future collaboration. Because of nothing more than a kickback about giving proper credit.
And that helps the music scene how?
Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s no great story or much inspriational to say for some posts. This is the latest club night set. Remedy at Beaver Works is always good, and Hallowe’en especially so as many people go above and beyond dressing up!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Didn’t seem to take very meany at Sunrise this time. But here’s a few.
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have been out and about in the clubs again recently with this set from Sunrise at the West Indian Centre. Not a massive amount to say really, other than that I am quite proud of the set I got from here.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Another dose of clubbing shots from my regular haunt Remedy at Beaverworks in Leeds. I have played about with some zoom burst effects recently, and as always using my long shutter speeds for full psychedelic effect… This was an interesting night – the planned event …
Reading Time: 2 minutes This night was quite interesting as a photographer. I felt off all night – my back hurt and I had a dodgy stomach. I’ve managed some quite good shots, but it is interesting that in many of them my detachment from the night comes out …