Backstage Photo Pass with Elodie Chapuis
Meet Elodie Chapuis, the newest member of the discosalt Artist Collective. Since she began photography in 2006, Elodie has contributed her music and fashion photography to a slew of culture magazines and fashion projects. In 2007, she spent 4 days covering the Roskilde Festival in Denmark; the first step towards a personal artistic project to photograph live performances and off stage portraits. Elodie’s work in music, has lead her to several solo and collective exhibitions and she is constantly looking for new upcoming artists and bands to photograph. Some of her work includes The Kills, Franz Ferdinand, The Drums, Razorlight, Florence & The Machine, The XX, Iggy & The Stooges, Cold War Kids, PJ Harvey, The Strokes among others. For updates, check back soon to find more of Elodie’s work in the collective here.
Dan Mountford Doubles his Exposure
At just 20 years old, revealing little background information, English photographer/ graphic designer Dan Mountford has created a professional portfolio which already includes clients like EMI Records. His series of portraits titled The Worlds Inside of Us, is a surreal visual journey into the minds of his subjects, using the process of double exposure and photoshop to create thoughtful, captivating and superbly composed images. You can purchase prints through Dan’s shop or see more of his work on flickr.
Featured Photography Portfolio: Yusuf Sevincli
Meet Discosalt Artists Yusuf Sevincli. Born in Zonguldak, Turkey in 1980, Yusuf graduated from the Communication Faculty at Marmara University in Istanbul in 2002 and gained experience as a photographer for various newspapers and magazines between 2000 and 2004. In 2004, he completed a masterclass on documentary photography in Nordens Fotoskola, Sweden and now lives and works in Istanbul. Check out more of his work HERE.
Featured Photography Portfolio: Ana Cabaleiro
We are excited to welcome Ana Cabaleiro as a new member of the Discosalt Artist Collective this month!
Escape the city, to a washed out world of never ending sunny days, clean air and overwhelming natural beauty. In these spaces there are things to smell other than car-exhaust and there are textures to feel other than concrete or brick. Being there, photographing these types of areas simultaneously engages all of Ana’s sense in a pleasurable way, something that happens infrequently in the crowded and noisy urban environment.
Check out more of Ana’s work HERE.
SUPERHERO PUNKS: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM NIALL O’BRIEN
Our friends at Sick Of The Radio have posted another great photo blog that reminds us of the Penelope Spheeris ’84 cult classic Suburbia. Three years after her groundbreaking doc The Decline Of Western Civilization, and pre-dating Wayne’s World, Spheeris traced a bunch of suburban punk runaways, including a very young, and then unknown Flea from The Chili Peppers, who squat out a minimalist, punk lifestyle in an abandoned tract home and display some, well, “DIY” after school special acting chops. Worth dropping in the netflix queue for the live footage of D.I. performing “Richard Hung Himself” and True sounds of liberty performing “darker my love”…and of course mini Flea putting a rat in his mouth.
In a similar vein of Suburbia, “Irish Photographer and filmmaker Niall O’Brien followed around an photographed south-west London punks for four years compiling his “Superhero” series which showed a few months back entitled “Good Rats”. In a quote from a recent interview Niall said,”I walk around with these kids and the noses that are turned up are unbelievable, people are disgusted by the kids and they think of them as rats, people think they’re despicable, but I feel, in my heart of hearts that they are good kids. Hanging the show has been easy, Art Works Space is a really beautiful gallery, I saw it and just thought yeah, perfect. It’s a massive space and I’ve had to fill it, I’ve never done things by halves, (laughs).” (sickoftheradio.com)
Check out some more images from “Superhero” below”:
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And here are some scenes from Suburbia. Seriously, check out mini Flea:
ESOTERIC TRAVELER’S LANDSCAPE PHOTO NARRATIVE
West coast photographer Anthony George Noceti has just assembled a new series of landscape photo narrative’s on his website Esoteric Traveler. The images are taken from within vehicles along Anthony’s travels with a low resolution digital and 35mm camera. Read what Anthony has to say about his work:
“Conveying a detached and voyeuristic presence, the mode in the Esoteric Traveler is that of a passenger moving through an every changing landscape where the notion of reality is blurred. An onmiscient sort of being, the passenger is more of an implied character who does not take part in the narrative, but only relates it to the viewer. In this sense the narrative takes on a feeling of esoteric projection, wherein the traveler leaves the physical to explore a greater realm.”( Esoteric Traveler)
Check out some of our favorite images below:
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JEREMY & CLAIRE WEISS’S DAY 19
Jeremy & Claire Weiss are far and away my favorite husband and wife photography team (ok, maybe the only one i know of) but they are two of the hippest photographers on the West coast with an amazing portofilio that dips into portraits of musicians, directors, actors, friends, hipsters and the girl next door. Based out of Los Angeles, CA, the couple, who also go by the name of their photo studio Day 19, have put together a really amazing portfolio for you to check out. They work on composition using light and shadows to create simple, highly stylish images that can take you right inside moments of real comfort or high energy. Their work has been featured on the covers of Nylon and Paste and they have shot portraits of a slew of musicians, film makers and actors from David Lynch, Jack Black, No Age, Slash, Devendra Banhart, The Black Keys, Rivers Cuomo to Billy Corgan. The list goes on and on.
Visit their website or check out some more of our favorite images below:
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PHOTOGRAPHER JASON TRAVIS WANTS TO KNOW: WHAT’S IN YOUR BAG?
Check out this new series of photographs by Jason Travis in the pretty self-explanatary photo project “What’s in your bag?”. You can visit Jason on Flickr or read an interview with him on Dashboard Co-Op. Who would have thought that guy would have a sandwich in his bag?
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ANA CABALEIRO…JUST THE TIP
We don’t know too much about photographer Ana Cabaleiro, but we really dig her photostream on
Flickr . We do know, Ana has a blog (www.calmintrees.blogspot.com) and in an interview with freckledcup.com she professes her love of music, travel and taking photos in very open, arid and spacious spaces. We have so much in common. (call me?) She uses the words “freak, psych, weird, folk” to describe her work which often focuses on the tips of heads, mountains, and trees and is inspired by American/Indian mythology, other Flickr photographers, the sun, mountains mountains mountains, trees, people free and running naked, tropical breeze, tribal drumming and people’s backs, always. Ana’s photographs capture landscapes and people in Northern Spain, Las Bardenas Reales, Navarra deserts, and las Médulas, amazing old ruins in León. Some images to peruse below:
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LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: LIVE AT WEBSTER HALL
LCD Soundsystem returned to the stage this week with warm-up performances at Music Hall of Williamsburg last Thursday and another performance at Webster Hall on Monday, April 12th. We last caught LCD Soundsystem in 2007 in support of their sophomore album Sound of Silver which was the last proper tour they’ve played. The time away from the stage resulted in a focused effort on the upcoming though already leaked “This is Happening.” While the album had been leaking out track by track, first with Drunk Girls, then Pow Pow the full album hit the Internet last night and you couldn’t help but get the impression that James was keenly aware of this as he literally got down on his knees and begged the crowd not to fileshare the album. Knowing that filesharing has become a fact of the business he went so far as to say, if you’re going to steal it and share it, fine…just please wait until we release it so we can do it the way we want to. A great point considering James has indicated that This is Happening is to be the final release of the band under this moniker.
Following the hilariously enjoyable set by Fall on your Sword, LCD took the the stage and Murphy’s ill-preparation was hardly recognizable. Looking a bit as though he had only just arisen from a week on the couch and as he admitted, a bit too much on the booze, Murphy started into “Pow Pow,” what will hopefully prove to be the first single from the upcoming album. The energy you come to expect with an LCD Soundsystem show was delivered with the first note. Perhaps he’d forgotten just how incredible LCD Soundsystem comes off live because he continued to thank the crowd over and over for our energy and the way we were dancing. By the time Us vs. Them hit bodies were slamming everywhere and that this was among their warm-up shows had long been forgotten. Unfortunately, such absence was never more obvious than when Murphy started into one of the old classics and one of my personal favorites, “Losing My Edge” when Murphy stumbled drunk through the lines and while the song has always been something of a mockery, Murphy seemed to be mocking his fans in the way he performed this one. While a lyric guy and one who loves Murphy’s off kilter vocals, the best moment for me came when Murphy’s mic broke midway through “Yeah” and he along with the rest of the band launched into the loudest, most violent rendition of the song that I’ve ever heard.
Closing the set with the song that he almost has no option but to close with when performing in New York was of course “New York I Love You” and it seemed to show that Murphy is either completely ready and didn’t need the warm-ups or he’s got a way to go before being completely ready because he was acting goofy and asking himself rhetorical questions throughout the set.
All in all, the music speaks for itself and anytime you have LCD Soundsystem playing LCD Soundsystem’s music, it’s going to be a great time, and while I loved that Murphy was playful with the crowd, I would rather hear him take his own music a little more seriously. I look forward to hearing the rest of This is Happening and having those songs soaked up on the dance floor the way Someone Great and others have over the last few years because once Murphy starts playing all of these songs like he did in those moments of “Us vs Them” and “Yeah” last night, he’s going to murdering kids on the dance floor.
See more photos below:
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Setlist:
Pow Pow
Yr City’s a Sucker
Us V. Them
Drunk Girls
Losing My Edge
All My Friends
I Can Change
Tribulations
Movement
Yeah
Encore:
Someone Great
Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
New York I Love You
LCD Soundsystem @ Webster Hall (4/12/10) from Jaime’s Weekly Concert Alert on Vimeo.
LCD Soundsystem @ Webster Hall (4/12/10) from Jaime’s Weekly Concert Alert on Vimeo.
EVERYTHING CAN BE BROKEN DOWN INTO SIMPLE GEOMETRIC SHAPES
After attending Art Center College of Design in LA, photographer Nicholas Alan Cope has worked for a number of commercial and editorial clients as well as some personal projects. His most recent work focuses on abstraction and viewer perception. “The Cope’s” images, emphasized by stellar composition and all shot in black and white, play upon the idea that everything in the world can be broken down into simple geometric shapes. Great images here. Some more goodies for you all below:
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WAD LUND PHOTOGRAPHY
Wad Lund is the Scandanavian love-child of two photographers, Bjørn Wad and Elisabeth Lund who have teamed up with makeup artist and fashion stylist Mari Nes. Together, the team specializes in music, fashion and advertising photography. Check out some of Discosalt’s favorite images from their portfolio below or check out their website to see all their work.
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HEDI SLIMANE: 2009 COACHELLA PHOTO DIARY
Hedi Slimane, Tunisan/Italian/Brazilian-French Fashion designer and cultural photographer has a new collection of some really compelling black and white portraits taken at Coachella 2009. Slimane whose diverse background includes studying Political Science and Art History also worked on the centenary exhibition of Louis Viton”s “LV” monogramme label in the mid nineties. His most recent photo-diary includes spontaneous shots, stark, intimate portraits and some scattered still life photographs that are worth checking out.
DISCOSALT ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: SHANE O’BRIEN
Shane O’Brien is an artist, educator and gallery owner. After finishing an undergraduate degree at Bowdoin College, Maine, he completed his MFA at the University of Colorado in Photography and Electronic Media. He currently lives in Vancouver, Canada and is a member of the Discosalt artist collective. Check out more of Shanes work in the Discosalt artist section or contact him for purchasing at Obrien Gallery
IMPROVE YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE AT FRESH FACTORY
No plans Friday night? Feeling abandoned? under-appreciated? neglected? She aint gonna email you… so instead go check out “Quality of Life” @ Factory Fresh and commiserate with some art themes you can relate to. Its an exhibit of urban landscape photography that examines marginalized, forgotten, and neglected spaces in the city…like your bed and your apartment, as well as the graffiti, garbage, decay and people found within these spaces…kind of like your apartment again, except, only more so. You can get out, make some talk and meet some darbs that are as stimulating as you are. The Opening reception starts at 6 and runs until October 31. 1063 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Just take the L to Morgan.
For more details, check out: http://www.factoryfresh.net/index.html
THINKING GLOBALLY ABOUT SUSTAINABLE LIVING THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY
(Photographs and captions all courtesy of Yann Arthus-Bertrand.)
