Tribute to Nick Cave...

Good things happening in Ranelagh Art Centre all the time. Some of you remember this place from my ‘Coffee Flavour’ exhibition a few months ago (please see the link LINK) ;)
Last Friday and Saturday on the first floor in the room lightened only by the candles David Noone had his very personal concert - tribute to Nick Cave.
About an hour of a really good performance wormed up by fantastic atmosphere. On December last year I was working with David on promotional portraits for this gig (please see the link LINK).
Friday afternoon we met again to take a few portraits during David's dress rehearsal.

A few words from press release:

‘Writer and musician, David Noone will perform his unique take on the music of the legendary Nick Cave, at the Ranelagh Arts Centre in February. In this intimate acoustic concert, David will perform the songs of one of his favourite songwriters whom he believes to be possibly the greatest lyricist to have emerged in the last thirty years.  

David grew up in Rathangan, Co. Kildare, where he began his writing career as a music journalist with local newspapers. Moving to Dublin, he formed his first band 'Poppy' and then spent three years as lead singer and songwriter with 'David Noone and the Night Porters'. He has also published a collection of poetry -'My Cat's a Vicious Drunk' and his first play - 'Ructions' was performed at the 2010 Ranelagh Arts Festival.'

As far as i know, both David’s performances were not the last this year...

“David Noone sings Nick Cave”

My cooperation with David has a quite a long history as most of you already know (lots of photographs for publicity purposes). Just a few words for those of you who are here for the first time - David is a Dublin based writer, musician, actor and long time collaborator with the artistic collective The Colour and Form Factory.
A few days ago he came to my small studio. This time we wanted to create a promotional portraits for “David Noone sings Nick Cave” performance which will take a place in February 2012 in Ranelagh Arts Centre. This show is curated by Tony Strickland - independent art curator.

Above are two photographs of my choice. Its an ongoing assignment so please keep following this blog, facebook website, tweeter and google+ (recently created) for updates (links on the top of this page) .
And some technical info at the end: all taken on Kodak TMax 400 at box speed with a little help of Metz 45Cl-4 flash gun on the left with small soft box on it.

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It also may be the last post this year on my blog so I’ll take an opportunity to wish all very Happy Christmas and best of luck in New Year! 

Thank you for being here!!! :)

David Noone Revisited...

I was asked about year ago to take few portraits of David for publicity purposes. David is a Dublin based writer, musician and actor. A long time collaborator with the artistic collective The Colour and Form Factory. He has just completed a collection of poetry and images in collaboration with groups founder K.J.Nolan titled 'My Cat’s Vicious Drunk'.
We had Very nice and effective photo session with lots of good images however I decided to repeat it. Maybe it’s just my obsession but Images taken at this time with DSLR camera were too flat. i wanted to have a good portrait with all tonality range and almost three dimensional touch given by properly exposed film. We agreed to repeat session last Sunday. Over two hours walking through Ranelagh with nice coffee break in the morning sun.
...And here we go.