Professional Development Planning Blog - FP6006

  Hideaway Concert . Location: Hideaway Jazz Lounge, Streatham Date: 21 st April 2016 As part of my work experience as a photographer I had a previous opportunity on the 21 st of April 2016 working at a concert at the Hideaway Jazz Lounge in Streatham. For this work experience I was situated in the role of photographer and music video assistant throughout the night that I was working for the musicians and bands. As a photographer, I was required to work closely with the solo musicians and bands who were performing and their management and PR both before and after the concert, taking backstage and performance photographs that would be used for advertisement and publicity on their websites and social medias as well as for the portfolios of the solo musicians and bands. I was also required to help with setting up the photographic and camera equipment such as tripods, lenses, lighting, and backdrops whilst being able to give input and information to the management crew and t...

  YG Musicality – young actors and performance group . Location: Harlequin Theatre and Cinema, Redhill Date: 8 th and 9 th August 2017 As part of my work experience as a photographer I had a previous opportunity on the 8 th and 9 th of August 2017 working with YG Musicality who are a young actors and performance group based in Redhill who perform in productions at the Harlequin Theatre and Cinema. For this work experience I was situated in the role of photographer and stage assistant throughout the two nights I was working for the performance group. As a photographer, I was required to work closely with the performers and management who had arranged the performance both before and after the show, taking backstage and performance photographs that would be used for advertisement and publicity on their websites and social medias as well as for sale in the programmes and photographic prints made for the productions. I was also required to help with setting up the photograp...

 Interview with documentary, music and concert performance photographer Jessie Morgan, from London, United Kingdom who has worked with famous bands, musicians and record labels such as Warner Music Group, Parlophone Records, Island Records, Redbull Music, Big Scary Monsters, Fashion Scout, the band Counterfeit and many others.  INTRO: How did you get into photography and your specialism as a music photographer? Did you start off with assisting other photographers? Is there any information you can give as a starting point of your work?  JESSIE MORGAN: Before I photographed music I wrote about it, I didn't have a lot of money growing up so reviewing shows gained me access to them, eventually photography overtook the writing as I created a way to better narrate the atmosphere than the written word. Professionally from that it was rocky, I was always known as the one with the camera, I got my first big job in my first year of university working at Warner Music for Ashnikko, w...

 Interview with music and concert performance photographer Peter Neill, from the United Kingdom who has worked with famous bands and musicians such as Queen, Justin Timberlake, The Script, U2, Elbow, Rick Astley, Will.i.am, Gary Barlow and Ennio Morricone. He has also worked alongside popular studios, publications, and music producers such as Sony, Colombia Records, Epic Records and Billboard Magazine.   INTRO: So, a lot of the questions that I am required to ask for my coursework are about your experiences as a photographer, like how you got into photography or if you started off with assisting or if there is any information you could give for a basis of your work. PETER NEILL: I started out and got into it in kind of a bizarre way. I had been working. I was living in Ireland and I had been working in IT for a long time. In fact, let me go back a little further, at home and I was living in the West of Ireland and my grandfather was living with us and I was around the ag...

Ilona Gerasymova is a concert, music and portrait photographer from Prague, Czech Republic who has worked with famous bands and musicians such as Sum 41, Demotional and Smash Into Pieces as well as popular festivals, records labels, and publications in Czech Republic. The photographic work of Ilona Gerasymova focuses on documenting scenes of emotion, movement, performance, and lighting to emphasize the atmosphere she captures within her photographs, often focusing on the angles of her compositions as though looking at the venue and performances from the perspective of the audience, performers, and backstage crew through mainly wide shots. As someone with an interest in the specialism of music, performance, and concert photography, I decided that looking at and researching the work of Ilona Gerasymova 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 phot...

John Shearer is an entertainment, music and backstage photographer from Nashville and Los Angeles, USA who has worked with famous bands and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift as well as popular events, record labels and publications such as The Grammys and The Oscars. The photographic work of John Shearer focuses on documenting scenes of emotion, movement, performance, and lighting to emphasize the atmosphere he captures within his photographs, often focusing the angles of his compositions as though looking at the venue and performances from the perspective of the audience, performers, and backstage crew through mainly wide shots. As someone with an interest in the specialism of music, performance, and concert photography, I decided that looking at and researching the work of John Shearer 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 perfor...

Katy-Rose Cummings is a music photographer and creative director from Scotland, United Kingdom who has worked with famous bands and musicians such as The Hunna, Two Door Cinema Club and Circa Waves and others. The photographic work of Katy-Rose Cummings focuses on documenting scenes of emotion, movement, performance, colour, and lighting to emphasize the atmospheres she captures within her photographs, often focusing the angles of her compositions as though looking at both the venue and performances from the audience and performer’s perspectives through close-ups and wide shots. As someone with an interest in the specialism of music, performance, and concert photography, I decided that looking at and researching the work of Katy-Rose Cummings 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 performances photographers. By researching and analysing the work of Katy...