Just seen this great list, compiled by awesome fellow British photographer Samuel Bradley
Very happy to be included, got me feeling patriotic
Ongoing list (I know I’ve forgotten people). Some are good friends, some I’ve never met (one is me, hey I have that right!). As many names as possible link to blogs. I’ll update this as and when I can.
Check out the collectors series, published in BOAT Magazine this week
Jack Brown, White Lies, Austin, Texas 2009
This is the White Lies drummer before and after performing outdoors at SXSW…it was HOT
I get quite a few emails from people asking questions about this or that, so I’ve added a questions thing here on tumblr. Feel free to ask me stuff you like.
Justin Young, Richmond, London, 2008
Now frontman of The Vaccines - Justin was going by the name Jay Jay Pistolet when we shot this four years ago.
I’ve always been a massive fan of his music, from his twee folk to his depressing love ballads to the current pop-punk. He is just a natural songwriter, a real one of a kind.
The shoot didn’t go too well at the time and ‘Jay Jay’ didn’t work out as planned - I was supposed to shoot The Vaccines but it never materialised. Maybe next album.
These are from a shoot with Jamie N. Commons - recently named on the annual BBC ‘Sound of…’ poll
He is a nice fella and I wish him all the best
I’ve added a studio section to my website.
This image is from a shoot for awesome London band Post War Years
I never studied studio lighting and am no expert on techniques in this sort of environment, but I’m really enjoying playing around with it at the moment.
If anyone in London needs some portraits done of anything, let me know!
max@maxknightphoto.com
Thanks!
I’ve got two photographs on show at the New York Photo Festival tomorrow.
Its at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, it’ll be the first time I’ve put a Mumford print on sale and the first time anything from Sarajevo has been exhibited.
1900 hours. Free beer.
Thanks!
Laura Marling, Shepherds Bush, London, 2008
I met Laura when she was 15 and we began working together straight after her first gig.
This was our first proper photoshoot, just before she released her debut album. It provided this press shot but I’ve always liked the image posted above. We had just been talking about the Diane Arbus Grenade Boy image - she was trying to picture it and as soon as she remembered, she imitated it and I took the shot. I remember her saying ”Oh God that one’s gonna be horrible!” But I quite like it.
Everyone has got very used to Mumford & Sons being enormous by now. But it only truly dawned on me the other day when I overheard a woman on a non-music related radio show, saying that the three biggest selling artists in the USA this year are Adele, Lady Gaga and Mumford & Sons…
I shot their album cover in 2009. Its strange thinking that over two million people have bought a package, physically or digitally, that is fronted by my photograph. Obviously it feels great - but with album artwork having a fraction of the impact it once had - it certainly doesn’t feel as great as it should.
Anyway - I thought I’d post an offshoot. I had wanted to shoot some form of this idea for a while, originally as a press shot, so when the guys asked me to shoot it as a cover, I was pretty excited. It was a boiling hot day, they were late (as usual…) and we had to deal with traffic, window reflections, strange choices of outfit (mainly Winston and Ben) and the pub next door full of happy drunk people watching the Wimbledon final.
It was a really tough day but despite my cynical opinions on the state of artwork and the roles of creatives in the music industry - I am really pleased these guys have done so well and thankful that my photograph has been along for the ride with them.
