Scene Seen
Somewhere deep inside, in places I don’t get to talk about, I want to produce a cultural record of my gay brethren. Watching films like “Milk” reminds me that in a day and age where everything is quantified and recorded, I worry that the gay community (and I use that term loosely) has stopped quantifying it’s own progress and it’s own identity in a meaningful way. So much of it still seems attached to the club scene. London once had it’s heart in Soho, but the arrival of the Crossrail development saw the end of Soho’s two cornerstones, G.A.Y and the Ghetto. Fragmented, the lifeblood of the scene has found itself in the hipster-influened east end. These pictures are my first stab at clubbing pictures, or my version of them. There are others, which focus on people more but I wanted to distil the experience more. The lights, the sound, the heat, the energy, the closeness, the colours (most of which are red!)
Club Nights:
Songs of Praise, @ East Bloc.
Shake Yer Dix/DoucheBag@ Star of Bethnal Green
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Perfect Quotes
- People will say ‘There are a million ways to shoot a scene,’ but I don’t think so. I think there’re two, maybe. And the other one is wrong… I kind of don’t know how not to do it the way that I would do it. David Fincher
- If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough. Robert Capa
- You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. Ansel Adams
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Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
Don McCullin
Sleeping With Ghosts, 1994