Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
In the news: tomorrow is Cancer Research UK’s Sound & Vision event where performances and auctions will raise money for the research on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. It is taking place at the famous Abbey Road studio and will feature performances from Tom Jones, The Feeling and Eve Selis. I will be there too, presenting two prints I donate for the auction: an Epson Digigraphie print of Sir Paul McCartney in good company of Hard Rock Cafe’s Rita Gilligan, as well as a print of Brian May live with Queen + Paul Rodgers at the O2 Arena in 2008, signed by Brian May himself.

sound & vision 2011 at Abbey Rd Studio

My Digigraphie print of Paul McCartney on auction tomorrow

My signed print of Brian May, Live at the O2 Arena
And some shots from a recent shoot in collaboration with Joanne Fleming, Brighton based fashion designer, as well as Yulia Kunze with her hair accessories, models Kasia and Samar and make-up and hair from Beth Alderson and Siwan Hill. Thanks Annabel Staff for the help & Paul Toeman for the studio!

Kasia wearing Joanne Fleming

Samar wearing Joanne Fleming

Kasia wearing Joanne Fleming

Samar wearing Joanne Fleming
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Tags: born dressed, brixton, burning head, dance, dogstar, exhibition, film, france, franck trebillac, Images En Scène, music video, paul gravity!, production, roxy velvet, video
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
A brief update as spring is upon us (you know, when it gets colder again, Tfl threatening storms, too much chocolate..) with a sample of what I’ve been working on recently.
The Music Video is on its way and we’re working on the editing, here is a snapshot from the shoot.

Born Dressed music video in the making
Another successful start-up in front of my lens, JogPost is an original new company in West London for the distribution of leaflets made by.. joggers! The result being a faster delivery, better paid employees that get healthier doing it, not bad at all I say, no surprise their phone keeps ringing all the time.

Action shot for JogPost commercial shoot
In music a few new shoots, I posted a “summary of previous episodes” on my Loudpixels Blog including Suede’s first show in years at the 100 Club, Tangerine Dream at the Royal Albert Hall and I would note a big night at the O2 Arena with some of the biggest legends of Soul and Motown, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Three Degrees and The Drifters. The following photo was taken by The Three Degrees’ manager in my failed attempt to join the band with Cynthia Garrison, Valerie Holiday and Helen Scott of Three Degrees
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Me pretending to be a R&B singer from Philadelphia, with the legendary Three Degrees, O2 Arena in London, March 26 2010
And last but not least the big exhibition in France approaches, the Images En Scène festival at the Photomusicales De La Roche Posay on April 23, 24 and 25 where I’ll be exhibiting 50 large prints from my Loud Pixels collection, live and portraits, from Nana Mouskouri to Rihanna, from The Rolling Stones to The Maccabees, thanks to the sponsors Rainbow Color in Paris and EPSON’s Digigraphie label.

A sample of the images to be exhibited at Images En Scène, 23, 24 and 25 April 2010 at La Roche Posay, France
Tags: Digigraphie, exhibition, Limited Edition, Motown, music, music video, PR, start-up
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
A brief summary of last week since my last update.
The UK Folding Plug I photographed earlier this month have won the Brit Insurance Design Of The Year Award 2010, well done to Min-Kyu Choi and the team!
The Four Tops (shot last week) appeared in the main feature of The Times Arts&Ents last Friday, and the Sunday Times published one of my studio portraits of Marina And The Diamonds, nice double Times
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some recent The Times tear sheets
Music-photography-wise I covered the return of Craig David with his album launch at Scala last week, as well as a big sold-out show of Frightened Rabbit at KOKO which showed how fast these guys are growing, and finally Chris Rea supported by Paul Casey at the Hammersmith Apollo on Sunday night.

Craig David's new album launch at Scala, 9 March 2010

Chris Rea Performs At Hammersmith Apollo In London March 14 2010
A lot of time spent trying another time to make a fresh install on my MacBook Pro, from an empty drive, reinstalling everything one by one, for those who tried they know that it’s a long journey in front of a screen! Working on new exciting opportunities as well as on the Music Video I mentioned before, we hope it will be launched by mid April! Oh and despite these last few enjoyable sunny days I have a cold, shame, how am I going to enjoy the taste of the Guinness tonight?
Happy St Patrick’s day everyone.
Tags: Chris Rea, Craig David, Design Of The Year, Design Of The Year Award, folding plug, Frightened Rabbit, Hammersmith Apollo, Koko, Paul Casey, scala, St Patrick, tear sheets, The Times
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
A great day Thursday saw me rocking up to the JW Marriott’s Grosvenor House in Park Lane carrying the quasi totality of my studio, with the help of the lovely Nicky, fellow photographer, for a shoot with some true music legends before they kick off their European tour, Motown’s best The Four Tops and The Temptations. They will be back in London on the 26th for a big show at the O2 Arena, joined by the Drifters and The Three Degrees, closing a UK Arena tour.

The Four Tops in London, March 4 2010 (L to R) Theo Peoples, Lawrence Roquel Payton Jr, Abdul Duke Fakir, Ronnie McNeir

The Temptations in London, March 4 2010. (L to R) Joe Herndon, Terry Weeks, Bruce Williamson, Otis Williams, Ron Tyson
Oh and by the way, Min-Kyu Choi’s Folding Plug, featured on my last blog entry and who I photographed last week, has won the Product category of the Brit Insurance Design Of The Year Award 2010! You can see the other category winners on the Wired site, with late Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer ‘10 collection posthumously winning the fashion award, not for sentimental reason by the way but because it is stunning. The overall winner will be announced on March 16th.
No photos this weekend, plus given I just got a bit older I kind of expect my head will be sour in the morning…
. And then up for another exciting week!
Tags: Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Bruce Williamson, Design Of The Year Award, Detroit, Duke, Joe Herndon, Motown, Otis Williams, R&B, Ron Tyson, Ronnie McNeir, Roquel Payton, Soul, Terry Weeks, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Theo Peoples
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Tuesday night I was at the Embassy in Mayfair for a London Fashion Week themed showcase and party featuring various artists including Cushh playing a couple songs while models were catwalking with samples from their Spring/Summer collection. A few shots from this night might pop up in here or on www.loudpixels.net at some point.
Wednesday night back to Mayfair, at Jalouse Nightclub this time, for yet another London Fashion Week party also mixing music and fashion. This time The Rotten Hill Gang were playing their mix of Rock and Rap while models were showcasing the Wealthy-Paupers collection from designer Johny Rocca. A non orthodox collection meant a non-orthodox show and the whole thing was pretty rock’n'roll. Despite the rumours, Mickey Rourke unfortunately did not join the fun as quite a few papers announced on the day. This gallery is on Flickr already, the Rotten Hill Gang and the Johny Rocca show.

Johny Rocca Wealthy-Paupers collection at Jalouse, Feb. 24 2010
Tags: Cushh, Embassy, Jalouse, Johny Rocca, LFW, London Fashion Week, Pop-Rocktic, Rotten Hill Gang
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
My MacbookPro, although pretty new, is acting slow. I decided to do a “clean install”, erasing the hardrive and reinstalling Snow Leopard. I imagined reimporting only my important settings like emails, address book etc would be ultra easy but it’s not and searches through the web, apple and non-apple sites, did not give any simple answer. So after wasting too much of my day on this I decided to reinstall and migrate my old backup in from time machine, as most answers found on the web are advising. But it didn’t leave much option and just brought back everything, mess included. Now I find myself as I was before, like taking a shower and putting your dirty clothes again. Anyone knows the secret of the true clean install without losing your email, address book, itunes account etc etc?
This was for the techie Mac, now for a far more sweet Mac, the musician one. Absolute Radio session at the Hard Rock Café with Amy MacDonald last night.

Amy MacDonald live at the Hard Rock Café London 22 Feb. 2010
Tags: Amy MacDonald, IT, linkedin, Live, Mac, music
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Terrible weather today, I used a bit of time for editing. Yesterday was a travel challenge with all these tube disruptions and a shoot in Kentish Town followed by Depeche Mode at the O2 Arena. I heard that it has been chaos at the end of the show for the audience to get home. I left way before the panic, in a rather empty Clipper for a nice “London by night on the river” journey back home while preparing the images for wiring to Redferns.
So some samples of the results, starting with the shoot featuring experimental rock band Foxy Shazam from Cincinnati, who supported Hole last week at the Empire. Read and hear more about them here.

Foxy Shazam shoot, Camden 20 February 2010
Depeche Mode live at the O2 Arena. A gallery can be seen here. More generally, any music photo material is also blogged & displayed on my music photography site www.loudpixels.net.

Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode at the O2 Arena, London 20 February 2010
And finally the boat trip back home with a nice view on the impressive O2 Arena.

The O2 Arena from the Thames
Tags: Andrew Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Foxy Shazam, linkedin, Martin Gore, O2
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
My first proper post is all about Love, Courtney that is, which I was commissioned to photograph last night for the first show of the band Hole in UK for 11 years. A great moment considering I am a big fan and have been since early 90’s during the infamous grunge period. That was an awesome show and the crowd was vibrant of emotion. Courtney looked superb and did a show with her heart so that was a great come back for all the lucky ones we were in the intimate Shepherds Bush Empire. The images can be seen in my music photography gallery on Flickr and I already added my favourite to the collection of this site.

Hole perform NME Shockwaves Awards Show At Shepherds Bush Empire
Tags: Courtney Love, Hole, linkedin, Live, music, show
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