Matty Vogel is a
music and tour photographer from Los Angeles, USA who has worked with famous
bands and musicians such as Billie Eilish, Thirty Seconds To Mars, All Time
Low, PVRIS, Hoodie Allen, and others. The photographic work of Matty Vogel
focuses on documenting scenes of emotion, movement, colour, and lighting to
emphasize the atmosphere of his photographs, often focusing the angles of his
compositions as though he was looking at the venue, the performer, or the
audience through the perspective of the performer and occasionally the
perspective of the audience.
As someone with
an interest in the specialism of music, performance, and concert photography, I
decided that looking at and researching the work of Matty Vogel would be best
for learning a lot more information about this area of photography which will then
be developed further in later interviews with music industry, concert, and
performance photographers. By researching and
analysing the work of Matty Vogel,
I discovered that his style of photographing the performers, audience and the
venues relies a lot upon the formal elements of tones, and colours to emphasize
the atmosphere and mood captured through the lighting, stage setup and designs and
motion that is going on around him within the concert venue.
Many of Matty
Vogel’s photographs are kept central using the rules of thirds and diagonal and
horizonal leading lines, ranging from wide to close-up compositional angles to
document the performer, the audience, stage setups, and the venue around the
stage to show how these factors have been deliberately arranged and structured
prior
to the concert to have a major impact on the atmosphere of the show and
venue as well as the emotions of the audience and performers. Since Matty Vogel
documents his photographic works from the perspectives of the audience or the
performer, he creates this feeling of elation, joy and high energy focusing on
the emotional expressions of the audience and the performer as well as the
movements and motions of the performer on the stage and the way that they fill
the deliberately structured space. By focusing on these specific elements
within his photographic work as well as his use of compositions, Matty Vogel,
creates these intense and intimate photographs, narrowing the spaces of the
large venue and stages to focus on the interaction and emotions shared between
the performer and their audience.
Matty Vogel’s
photographs are focused on the formal elements of tones and colour created
through the artificial lighting and stage designs around the stage and venue which
are captured within his photographic imagery of the live performances and
concerts. The photographer uses the stage designs and artificial coloured
lighting around the stage to create silhouetted images of the audience or
performers and even creating leading lines of focus within his images to draw
attention to the performers on the stage. By creating these starkly contrasting
silhouetted images as well as the intense colours visible within each
photograph, such as the blue or red lighting, really emphasizes the mood and
atmosphere of the stage design, performances and even the emotional interaction
between the audience and performers. This in turn also draws the attention of
the photographer’s target audience further into the imagery, allowing them to
focus on the colours and the emotions that they can portray, for example blue
is often sadness or melancholy and red is often interpreted as love and
passion.
The way that
Matty Vogel documents the formal elements of colour and lighting within his
work to portray intense emotions of joy, elation and high energy which is often
shared between the audience and the performers on the stage, is something that
I feel really inspired by in regards to this specialism of photography as I
have always been interested in my experimentation of atmosphere and mood within
my own photographic works, especially for live performance and music photography
and how I can emphasize these themes and atmospheres through the uses of intense
lighting styles and shadows and colour schemes created through the artificial
lighting as well as by documenting the emotional expressions of the performers
and the audience surrounding them. I plan to gain further information into this
specialism through further artist analysis and interviews with professionals
within this area of the industry regarding their own experiences and
photographic works.
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