⭐️📸𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄: 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐁𝐘 𝐊𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐆📸⭐️

In my previous posts, I’ve already talked to you about some great photographers who worked with Placebo during their career. Today, I’m going to introduce you to another one, 𝑲𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒏 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈.
The series of iconic Placebo photos, one of which is shared below, were taken by Kevin in London on 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖.

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg, 1998

💥There’s a specific reason I decided to talk to you about this picture now. On 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟑𝟎𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐, Kevin Westenberg’s photography 𝐄𝐗𝐇𝐈𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 entitled ‘𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐗’ runs at 𝑨𝒈𝒏𝒆̀𝒔 𝑩. shop on Marylebone High Street in London, and this photo, beautifully framed, is proudly presented to the audience😍


As for his work with Placebo, the photographer recalled:
📢"In their time, one of the most exciting LIVE bands around. Not Britpop. Not RAWWWWK. Some sort of hybrid which manifests through Brian especially when he opens his mouth in interviews. That stage presence and energy radiating from these guys was infectious. This was and still may just be reflected in their fan base who are rabid in the best way possible. I was hired numerous times over the years not only by the music press but also by Hut Records and by the band themselves. The goal always was to elevate the imagery as high as possible given the budget limitations and the limitations of my own skill set from back in these days of chaos. Over the years, we didn’t always get it right due to various extenuating external events but when it worked well, It was absolutely great. Always happy with those times. This is essentially a microcosm of what my job was, creating these icon moments to have the public notice and then purchase the music. Of all the shots we took over the years, this set were for me, peak Placebo. This series were the most direct, graphic and memorable of all. This was part of the massive shoot we did for their album ‘Without You I’m Nothing’ which was a breakthrough.”

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg, 1998

⭐️Indeed, it wasn’t Kevin Westenberg’s only photoshoot with Placebo. For example, he did a perfect job for 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 album and singles sleeve artwork. Also, you should remember some great pictures of 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 wearing his ‘𝒄𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆’ top from the same time.


I hope it’s going to be interesting for you to learn more about the artist.
⭐️𝐊𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐆, an American-born, London-based photographer, is renowned for his provocative, electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists. and movie stars for over 25 years. His technique of lighting, colour, and composition has helped to produce his own unique visual style. This electricity, however, has its origin in Kevin’s lifelong romance with the adventure of rock and roll.


▪️Meeting Elvis Presley on the film set of ’It Happened at the World’s Fair’ at the age of 4, ensured that Kevin would always be deeply moved by music and musicians. He grew up listening to the fabulous artists of the 60’s and 70’s as The Stones, The Who, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Bob Marley. Westenberg joined his generation in the psychedelic exploration of music, life, and light. A decade of passion and decadence helped inspire a photographic style. Architecture school brought a new dimension to his life and after 8 years, he gained a master’s degree. But British punk in the early eighties was irresistible to him and he moved to Europe. He bought his first camera in Denmark, started practicing on fashion models in Barcelona and then, moved to London where he’s been based since 1983.


▪️Westenberg is self-taught and learned his trade working for New Musical Express and Melody Maker mainly throughout the late 80’s and 90’s documenting amongst others the UK Britpop bands. The breakthrough came in 1993-1994 with the release of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales and Mary J Blige’s Share My World. These two album covers changed the perception of Kevin’s work worldwide and thus began a run of 20 years of commissions and great opportunities.

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg, 1998

▪️For the last 25 years, he created stunning photographs of Radiohead, White Stripes, Jane’s Addiction, Sting, Bjork, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Nine Inch Nails, The Pixies, Michael Stipe, U2, Mary J. Blige, R.E.M, Black Sabbath, Massive Attack, BB King, The Rolling Stones, PJ Harvey, Marilyn Manson, Placebo, Oasis, Tom Jones, Soundgarden, Bon Jovi and Coldplay among many others.

▪️Also included are hundreds of album, single, magazine and book covers from all over the world.

▪️Kevin has also worked with creatives from the performing arts such as David Lynch, Luc Besson, The Coen Brothers, Billy Bob Thornton, Sean Penn, Jean Luc Godard, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, Tom Stoppard, and the late Alan Rickman.
(𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒: 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑒.𝑐𝑜𝑚, 𝑠𝑛𝑎𝑝𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠.𝑐𝑜𝑚)

⭐️𝑨 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒉𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏...⭐️
📸“𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐗, the new exhibition, serves as a reintroduction of the Westenberg oeuvre of images for a new audience at the special invitation of the French clothing line Agnes B. Sixteen years after ‘Idyll Worship’, Westenberg’s debut exhibition, introduced the work to the world, Technological advancements of scanning and modern printing methods, have now been implemented to create a whole new series of photographs from across all eras. Coming soon to the Agnes B Marylebone shop arranged over three floors in the heart of London. Additionally, the never before seen Polaroid’s, add a new depth and historic appreciation of the work and it’s place within the history of Rock & Roll.”


📢𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠: “Unveiled here for the first time, the full poster image for the upcoming collaborative exhibition at the Agnes B. shop in the heart of Marylebone, London. The main image of the 30 Polaroid’s, which I’m calling the Polaroid’s Wall is a new addition to the repertoire of images. Thousands of polaroid’s which I had kept in shoeboxes from the very beginning were scanned and edited down to these 30. There was no one particular reason for these 30; just to provide an overview of the variety of artists I had the pleasure of working with over the years. […]

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg, 1998

📢𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠: “The [opening] night was indeed a full circle experience given back in mid-80’s I started my photo life in a tiny one room studio flat on Marylebone Lane, now long gone. The photos themselves fit in perfectly with the clothing and general atmosphere even better than I and the staff expected. We’re all thrilled.”
(@kevinwestenberg IG)


If you live in London or are lucky enough to be accidentally visiting the city these days, don’t miss the exhibition! And share your impression with us!😍
I wish I could attend it myself.


⭐️I think, listening to the song from the same era as the photoshoot can make your read more pleasant. So, I’m choosing 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐄 from 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈’𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, "a thrilling record […] made by freaks, for freaks.” (𝑁𝑀𝐸, 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 1998)
This performance was recorded at the Octagon Centre, Sheffield, UK, on October 17th, 1998.
❓Is there anyone of you who’s been at this show, by the way?


𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞, 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖
➡ https://bit.ly/3MTDlBq

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💥𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐄𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐍 & 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞-𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨💥

✨𝑪𝑶𝑳𝑳𝑨𝑩𝑶𝑹𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕✨

Photo credit: Hayley Madden

Dear soulmates,
As you may remember, we already shared many great interviews with very special persons connected in some way to Placebo – photographers, musicians, producers, directors etc. – done by 𝑨𝒏𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒚𝒂 𝑳𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒂 for her 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭.
As soon as the 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 is just turning 5, there comes new exciting stuff to celebrate the anniversary

In collaboration with 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, we’re going to exclusively publish the upcoming interviews immediately, so you have no chance to miss them!
Congratulations and big THANK YOU to Anastasiya for her impressive work full of genuine love to our favourite band!

And now, enjoy the newest 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 with 𝐇𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐄𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐍, a documentary photographer who did photo shoots for musicians and bands such as Garbage, Foo Fighters, PJ Harvey and many others. In 1996 she took some pictures of Placebo for 𝑵𝑴𝑬.

Photo credit: Hayley Madden

𝐇𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐄𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐍: "𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐒 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐄"
𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚: Hi, Hayley. Thank you for finding time for this interview! Had you met the band or listen to their music before this photo shoot? Did you have something like a certain image in your head about Placebo?
𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧: I had not met the band before, but I had seen them in concert. I certainly listened to their music and I loved their sound, and of course their style. I try not to have a preconceived image of any band before I shoot them, but it's hard when lots of good photos are around not to be influenced, especially if they are the band everyone is talking about – which they were when I got commissioned to do the shoot. They were all very striking in looks and style, so I knew that not much work would be needed to make them look good.

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚: Can you tell me about the photo shoot. For what print media did you take these pictures?
𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧: The commission was a feature for NME, a British weekly newspaper. It was a big deal for me as I was the new kid on the block, but all the other photographers were already busy (it was Britpop). It was a double page feature, and the interview had already been done. I usually try to sit in on the interviews to get to know the band a bit but there was no opportunity for that on this occasion.

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚: Why did you take black and white pictures? Or was it necessary for this certain shoot?
𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧: NME was one of the last papers to go fully colour and this feature was scheduled for black and white. Converting colour film to black and white gives poor results, especially if it is going to newsprint, and black and white film has much more range artistically, so if a commission was a black and white shoot I always shot on black and white film. Also we did not have big budgets to work with, so we had to shoot economically. I rolled my own film and processed it and printed it in my bathroom overnight which most of the music news photographers did then to avoid expensive overnight processing lab fees. Of course if Photoshop had been readily available I would have shot colour and processed it digitally. I do think Placebo are a 'black and white' image band though!

Photo credit: Hayley Madden

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚: What can you say about the location for this session?
𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧: It was in Liverpool, an old theatre called the Lomax where the band were playing that evening. The band did not want to go outside, but we did have the run of the whole theatre. I had location lights with me, but they needed power, so in the end it came down to shooting in the only room which had some spare electric sockets. Unfortunately every time I took a shot it fused the whole theatre. The stage crew were very accommodating and obligingly reset the fuse box each time I took a shot, but it did make for a very stilted shoot.

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚: What was the most interesting in working on this photo shoot?
𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧: Definitely the chance to meet the band. They were extremely patient but I did not get a great variety of images as the circumstances were so limiting. That is why I put the prints in water afterwards, bent them and shot the effect, so I got a bit more variety for the picture editor to choose from. I think it suited the band to have something out of the ordinary – I could not have pulled this off with Oasis or Pulp for example – but it was totally out of necessity rather than a preplanned artistic decision.

Photo credit: Hayley Madden

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚: What were your impressions from the mutual work with Placebo? Would you like to work with them again?
𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧: Despite all the fuss around them at the time they seemed to have their heads screwed on and their feet on the ground. They were quiet and reserved, which was very different to the more boisterous and sensational Britpop bands at the time. They also came over as very private and they were all definitely 'outsiders'. Having said that they were not at all pretentious or difficult, they were very professional and a pleasure to work with. I really liked them and was sorry the shoot had so many technical problems. So yes, it would be great to work with them again and actually have a chance to photograph them under less pressured circumstances.
(𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡, 2021)

Your Placebo Anyway Team
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𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐀 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄: 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨

“𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚.”
With these words Brian Molko introduced Nirvana’s cover 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 at the outstanding concert at Brixton Academy in London on September 28th, 2010.
➡️ https://bit.ly/2L2SWDV
A bit earlier, on September 1st, Placebo dedicated 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 particularly to Corinne while playing at Un Palco In Collina Festival in Noci, Italy.
The video is of a bad quality but you can clearly hear Brian saying: “I’d like to dedicate this next song to Corinne Day. Thank you.”
➡️ https://bit.ly/3lQHnMK

A heartfelt tribute to a world famous photographer - and a friend, since the early days of Placebo. Then, it was only five days after she passed away aged only 48.
Do you know who she was?

Photo credit: Corinne Day

✨𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 (1962 – 2010) was a British photographer whose influence on the style and perception of photography in the early 1990s and onwards has been immense. Self-taught, she became well-known for her raw, intimate and documentary-style images, which defined the 90s and specifically, the times of grunge culture.

✨Corinne Day worked on a photography for Placebo’s second album 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈’𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 and most of its singles: 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬, 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞.
📸 https://bit.ly/3qGA3Hx
📸 https://bit.ly/2VLkfFa

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆-𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔?
📢Sarah and Sally, the twins on the cover, run a magazine called Blag, which started in the early 90s. So we’ve been in the same kind of circles since we moved to London around the age of 18. Over the years we’ve been meaning to connect and hang out and see how everyone’s doing and it just never happened. So [re-shooting the album cover] was the perfect opportunity to touch base and reminisce about Corinne Day, who shot the cover and is sadly now passed away. Sometimes it feels like you have to take the time to reconnect with events that are important for you, and this certainly was an important point in our lives and a little bit for them as well. […]
(𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙, 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2018)

Photo credit: Corinne Day

✨𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚 entered the fashion world by chance but ended up revolutionising it: she launched Kate Moss’ career and set a precedent for a new style of fashion photography.

▪️Born in London on February 19th, 1962, Corinne was raised by her grandmother and left home at 16. While living in Japan in 1985, she met an Australian guy in a subway, Mark Szaszy and they never separated since. He had a keen interest in film and photography and taught her to use the camera.

▪️Corinne started experimenting and photographing her friends, who were models, in their everyday lives. She crossed the line and captured what was behind the luxury and the glamour that shaped their jobs. She rather focused on their poor salaries: living in dumps, struggling to pay the rent, dirt, drugs, shabby clothes and scruffy styles. She said of that time that they lived “on bread and wine and spliffs.” Later, it would bring out a controversial term ‘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒄’ as a style in fashion industry.

▪️Corinne Day was neither interested in the commercial side of photography nor the artificiality. For her, it was all about honesty, realism, and putting a person in a center. She found beauty in anyone and any situation, everything could be interesting for her artistic creations.

▪️In November 1996, Corinne Day was diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumour called oligoastrocytoma and had to undergo a brain surgery. The surgeon and oncologist gave her a prognosis of 8 years left to live, however Day outlived this prognosis by more than six years.

▪️Being ill, Corinne returned to fashion photography and was regularly commissioned by British, Italian and Japanese Vogue amongst many others. Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Modern, Saatchi Gallery, The Science Museum, The Design Museum, The Photographers' Gallery, Gimpel Fils Gallery and was also included in The Andy Warhol exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York.
Corinne Day sadly passed away on August 27th, 2010.
(𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠: 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑦.𝑐𝑜.𝑢𝑘; 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒)

Here you can watch a documentary about Corinne as part of Masters of Photography series.
𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 / 𝐅𝐈𝐁 𝟓 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐛-𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐨 - 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐕𝐨𝐥 𝟏𝟏 '𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬'
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Photo credit: Corinne Day

Tomorrow, on February 19th, Corinne Day would turn 59. Together with Placebo, let's say 'THANK YOU' for capturing the moments and bringing us back in time...

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Brian Molko by Marco Vittur for Q Magazine

 

By Marco Vittur

Hi,

I love making images.

I truly enjoy the constructive process of building an image up starting from an idea.

I like variety in my work, lighting, not the subject, is the common theme, precisely lighting a face and a scene for a portrait to depict character or making sure that reflections and transparencies are rich, refined and luxurious in a product. I started out mostly working as an ADV still life photographer but learnt through passion and experience to transfer the lighting skills to any subject. Light fascinates me immensely and is what draws me every day to try and look at things with a fresh and analytical eye. Flash, sun or moon, tungsten, led, flourescent, candle I love playing with light and study it's behaviour. I define my lighting as contrasted, incisive, defining and motivated.

From squashing, squeezing, sweeping or pouring make up products to working with Talent or fantastic models and large teams on fashion shoots I make pictures with dedication, interest, curiosity, experience and professionalism. I can work independently but like to share my passion.

I have been doing photography professionally since 2000 and can't imagine doing anything else.

Said that I am developing an interest and learning as much as possible about cinematography.

Other than that I ride my bike(s) 6 days a week when I can, road or mountain bike, up or downhill, as long as it has pedals will go. I like building things. Love cooking and try to grow some of my own food in our garden with mixed results so far.

Get in touch,

Marco

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contact@marcovittur.com

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