Portrait photography of the the band Simian that became the Cover Artwork for The Album ‘We Are Your Friends’ and the Single ‘Never Be Alone’ The release on Source Records was accompanied by a large poster campaign featuring the images. Screenprinting was by Kate Gibb at Big Active.
Shot to illustrate a feature in The Stool Pigeon music paper, I took American band Murder By Death along to Camden Market ahead of their Barfly gig. They flatly refused to stand in front of the Confederate flag we found at the shoot location. I was thinking Dukes of Hazzard…but apparently where they come from it means you like to kill black people. Point taken.
Alisa Andrasek is an architect and curator and along with Jose Sanchez is one of the main designers of BLOOM. BLOOM is an urban toy, a distributed social game and collective “gardening” experience that seeks the engagement of people in order to construct fuzzy BLOOM formations. http://www.bloom-thegame.com/main/
Warp Recording Artist, Mira Calix installed her interactive sound sculpture ‘Nothing is Set in Stone’ in Fairlop Waters as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. I was asked to document the installation as she talked visitors through the ideas behind the work.
Commissioned by Southern Fried Records to produce images for FACE the debut single by The Black Ghosts. This is what I came up with – multiple headed monsters!
Artwork and Press Shots for the eponymous Lord Skywave album released by This Is Music Ltd. Inspired by the bass music scene we built our own totemic soundsystem speaker stack. Slightly ridiculous, but fun.
Publishers Nelson Thorne commissioned me to photograph a pair of Fine Artists at work in their Hackney Studio. Here’s Richard Bevan MA (Slade School of Art) sticking some sellotape to a lightbulb!
Euros and band in the back of their tour van after a London gig. This shot became the inside sleeve for the ‘Bore Da’ album, released by Wichita Records. Euros told me later that the drummer had two peaches in his paper bag. Looks like he wasn’t keen on sharing them either!
Simian Mobile Disco’s first ever photoshoot! This picture went on to become pretty iconic for them and was used almost everywhere for the first few years of their meteoric rise to success. The shot is based around colour changing lighting units designed by Jeremy Lord (and possibly wired together by Simon and myself)
