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I took this image in Dublin, on film, on my trip in 1992 The young man apparently had at least all of the poems listed on his sign committed to memory, As I recall, I did not take the time to listen to them all. Originally photographed with my Nikon F4 film camera and later scanned to digital.
Thanks to Liam (FD's tour manager) I was able to shoot the full Faber Drive set.
I was lucky because all the other photographers were only permitted to shoot the first three of Simple Plan. But I had an all access pass which with both bands permissions, let me shoot their full sets.
What an AMAZING night. It's definately going to be stuck in my mind forever.
Dedico volentieri a questo anonimo amico, ringraziandolo, questa canzone. Sperando che stia davvero inseguendo il suo sogno di libertà.
Recently I saw performing this Artist in the street. He was doing his job in the Plaza de la Virgen in Valencia city but in that moment, I haven't got my camera with me.
The Performer makes a delicate dancing show alone whith a big metal hoop. He interacts and dance with it like the hoop was alive and he could fly playing with it.
The show driven me to tears with pure emotion, so I promised me to come back and take some pictures of him and his beautifully crafted and magical show. This shot is from the last saturday when he was doing some stretching before the show.
This is him. His name is Jeff. He's the Great Street Performer.
[The shot is made with my favorite manual lens, the 7artisans 35mm f1.2.
It is possibly considered one of the lenses with the most flaws on the market, but it allows me to work with great fluidity and comfort. I think that he rendering of my works with it are fantastic and its small size leds me take shots without disturbing people around me, so I take it with me whenever I can].
All of the photos were taken respectfully and for artistic purposes only.
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The title? I was listen to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody while this was uploading. Besides it might be a good description of her.
Have seen this lady at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe previously but never photographed her. Loved her look and outfit, and managed to isolate her against a plain wall with narrow depth of field.
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I've photographed Florence Welch a few times now and it's really spectacular to photograph a dynamic female performer. I don't connect as much emotionally with her music at this point in her career but I still find her talented.
Recently, one of my photographer friends told me about the contract that photographers who wanted to cover her shows this last tour had to sign giving up their copyrights. This is nothing too new...it has been happening in this crippling industry for some time now but I just wanted to revisit this topic because I think it's important for people to know about it.
When you are a concert photographer, chances are unless you are working for Getty or for Wire or some other corporate entity, you are literally making no money photographing. Even when I was paid in previous years to photograph festivals and bands/musicians, it was never enough even to cover one camera base COLLECTIVELY. This means, I have essentially invested a significant amount of life savings in something I do for the joy of it.
Additionally, as a concert photographer, your work is expected pretty much right away. That means, I am missing sleep that night to work on all the photos and usually still pulling through and going to work the next day unless the show is on Friday or Saturday. That's a lot of love and energy for music just to promote what you love and it's free press for the bands/musicians. Without amazing images of themselves, would bands and musicians be as famous? It's an interesting thing to consider...
Yet, this kind of emotional and financial investment is just not enough for this industry. What they have done now is made it a standard practice to have photographers sign away the rights to their work...so now, I am working for free (and losing money and sleep) and I don't even own the rights to my own photos?
So what does this mean? In the practical sense, what it means is that if the industry wants a photo for free, I am obligated by contract to provide it to them-at the very least, I won't be paid anything even if the label wants to print out my photo on a billboard or something. Some of you might think this would be pretty cool but it's funny, you honestly can't pay your rent or buy groceries just by pointing up at the sky going, "Hey, I took that photo!" Guess what...chances are pretty good that your landlord won't care so much.
And, perhaps in the even graver sense, it means over time you also realize that you are not seen as an artist. Florence is an artist but those who dedicate time, energy, and finances are not, for example. I am not an artist, right? I mean, if I was an artist, I would at the very least own the rights to my own work.
Do some of you understand why I've switched increasingly more to street photography these days? Maybe you're getting the gist of it.
Now, artists like Florence Welch may not realize their labels are doing this kind of thing. When Sonic Youth had a contract back in 2011, their label Matador forced photographers to sign a contract and the band had no idea about it. But, at this point in time, bands and musicians need to educate themselves and, if they believe photographers to be artists, they need to strongly consider dropping these sorts of rights grabs.
Other rights grab contracts: Morrissey, Gogol Bordello, Beck, bands on Nasty Little Man almost completely all have rights grabs, Riot Fest (not very punk rock is it?), Coachella (Golden Voice)...the list goes on.
Try investing over $2000 to fly into the desert and have a place to stay to shoot Coachella with no money paid to you at all for the weekend of running around like crazy with no sleep and find out in the middle of the desert you won't own any of the photos you took because Goldenvoice owns them instead. What are you going to do-get on the plane and fly back home that instant? I was there the first year they sprung this on photographers and it was and still is deplorable. In 2015, Goldenvoice made $84,264,264 MILLION in just ticket sales for Coachella.
These corporations have gotten greedy, have taken advantage of artists, and it's really shameful.
So, happy birthday Florence Welch. I hope you have a lovely little dance and birthday cake and I hope that tomorrow when you wake up a little older, you wise up too.
Concert photographers are artists just like you.
**All photos are copyrighted and I didn't sign a contract and won't sign a contract to shoot Florence Welch. Please don't use without permission**
I'd done a B&W version of this right away. Tried doing a color one this time. Cleaned it up a bit (but I can see things to fix already) too. The skin tone was hard to get right. There seem to be three different 'bad' (spiky spectrum) light sources lighting her so I had to use masks and the channel mixer in Darktable. I think the rendering in this version looks like Ektachome 200 (maybe the tungsten version) from 1980s with the colors a bit subdued. Anyway that's what I was shooting for. An altogether different effect than the B&W version, I think.
These got more comments than I thought they would, so I'll tell the story they come with. This woman and [apparently] her pal performed on Istiklal street (Istanbul) for a week or so in late 2016. I don't think they were regular buskers, I suspect they were music students or something like that. Dichtung & Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth) kindly identified the instrument as a hang. I saw these women twice. The first time I had no change and it was a bit early for this mood. This is from the second time. Haven't seen them there since.