Motion City Soundtrack was pretty influential on my teenage years. I came across them after Mark Hoppus mentioned them on his podcast because he was producing their latest album at the time, then I went down the rabbit hole and got obsessed.
As I’ve grown up, the music has matured with me, my musical taste has gone in a different direction to what it was ten years ago, but whenever I catch wind of MCS, I’m checking out whatever the news is straight away!
Read MoreDan was - unintentionally - the last person I’d shot with before COVID-19 Lockdown kicked in. He was also the first person I shot with when things eased up.
Every so often, Dan creates a piece to experiment with new techniques and methods - a warm-up, if you will - and uses whatever is going on in the news at that point to create the piece.
The piece was influenced by the BlackLivesMatter movement, and Dan had found a Muhammad Ali quote to base his piece around.
Read MoreDan hit me up about a week before we met up, he told me about his plans to create a piece of art from scratch, and put it up for auction with all of the proceeds going to the relief efforts fighting the Australian Wildfire Crisis. I always enjoy working with Dan, and I love Australia. Dan loves Australia too, so it was a plan.
Read More“Hey, I have this idea for something I wanna try out at Brighton,”
“Okay, cool!”
That’s pretty much how this video came about.
I’d been thinking about the idea of an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) video being something more experimental than just a self-indulgent trailer. I feel like it should be individual to the artist. Really encapsulate them visually, mentally, and audibly.
Read MoreLast summer, I was working on a documentary in St Albans about the topic of homelessness. It was a pretty eye-opening experience for reasons I expected, and reasons that would never have come to mind. But my favourite part of the summer-long experience, was meeting the people of Cardboard Citizens.
I documented their work over a two-week period with homeless participants as they worked to build a theatre performance for at the end of that fortnight. None of the participants had experience of performing in front of an audience before, so it was interesting watching Terry and Marc cultivate a team mentality in the room, help them push through the nerves of performing on-stage, and design and build the performance’s story from scratch in that time.
Read MoreTo be honest, I never really thought that I’d ever go back to the Azraq camp in Jordan. On a personal level, it’d been such an internal journey for me to be there in 2017, I wasn’t sure how I’d feel, and my professional life had taken me literally half a world away from where I was back then.
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