Four strings

Saturday afternoon, just a couple of hours after photographing TCD buidings  /described in previous post 'The Form'/ I had another session. 
My studio visited Bart Kotowski, Fusion Trip bass player.
You already know him from my old session over two years ago.
Fusion Trip just released their new album 'Spreading Passion' which you can listen and buy HERE

Some tech info as always:

Sinar F2
Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 150mm 5.6
Fomapan 100 4x5 in Kodak Xtol
2x lights Quantuum PT-300 with softboxes


And music at the end:
 

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 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.

Portrait of The Artist

I met Qasim once again two days after ‘Liliquoi Blue - God Made Me a Boy’ opening night. We spent couple of hours in town and in gallery working on his portraits. This time i was using my beloved analogue medium format equipment and black and white films.

I am very happy with the result. Cooperation was really good and i got exactly what i was looking for.

The rest of photographs from my selection you can see HERE

The night at CityArts

On 22 of April I was on assignment at CityArts Gallery, documenting the opening night for ‘Liliquoi Blue - God Made Me a Boy’ by Qasim Riza Shaheen . Qasim is an artist based in Manchester, UK.

Project consists of three video adaptations entitled Father I have sinned I, II and III, and an accompanying publication.

It was very interesting experience due to artist‘s deep personal approach to presented body of work.

At the same time very difficult light condition and need of use digital equipment (quite odd for me... well, it had to happen at some stage) made this night quite challenging, technically speaking ;) ...

Here I’d like to thank David Monahan for all support.

Presented images are just a little part of quite significant series.