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You might be surprised to learn that it is very tricky to carry on a conversation whilst also making a portrait.
The trouble with any conversation during a portrait session is that, beyond the niceties of ‘Hello’ and ‘Nice weather we are having’, if you really get stuck into a topic ...
I made a short documentary in 2015 that was a portrait of the man who set up The Clockwork Studios artists spaces in 1985. The studios had commissioned me to make a film that would help them promote the artists however it soon became clear that one mans influence made the studio stand out so we decided to make it a portrait of the man who dreamt it up in 1985, Noel Perkins.
The Clockwork Studios is an inspirational place and unusually for a creative environment it is due almost entirely to one mans influence. Noel Perkins created ...
During the filming of my recent feature documentary about the Irish band The Frames : ‘The Frames In The Deep Shade’ they ended their 20 year anniversary tour in Whelans in Dublin. Whelans was, and still is possibly, the best small music club in Dublin and I knew it well. In fact I shot my first ever live music photography there watching The Davy Spillane Band in August 1991. It was a nostalgic visit coming back and seeing that it is still a thriving venue. It also made me think of the book I produced when studying photography in 1992. “Rock Seen”.
The book that I made as a graduation piece was called ‘Rock Seen’. I cringe now at the naked ambition of doing a book on the Dublin Rock Scene and ...
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I visited the superb Man Ray exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery last week and was reminded of the outakes from a portrait session I did with Glen Hansard in 2012 where we solarised some of the images.
We were making portrait images for Glens album Rhythm and Repose and I had decided to shoot on film again using 10x8, 5x4 and some old out of date ...
Conor is a photographer and film maker based in London. His images can be viewed on his website on the PHOTOGRAPHY and FILM links above. This blog is a good place to see all sorts of personal work and general projects in progress.
