I was asked by the great people at Manfrotto if I would do a little talk on Music Photography at the NEC this year. Â I didn’t realise I would be sharing a stage with such photographic dignitary as Terry O’Neil and Joe McNally! Â It should be a blast lifting the lid on what it is really like to be a Music Photographer! The talk is on Saturday 1st March at ‘the Photography Show’. Â I am on at 4pm after Rankin. See you there!
http://www.photographyshow.com/page.cfm/Action=Visitor/VisitorID=2625
Here is the 2013 ‘Tears on Tape’ band shot photographed at Hotel Kamp in Finland.
All the Ville and Him pix are available now at the link below.
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VILLE VALO – ‘PROVOCATEUR’
24†x 20† Very Limited Edition Print Run of Only 25.
Photographed way back in 1998 in SoHo, London at Vivian Westwood’s legendary ‘Agent Provocateur’ sex shop. Â This is the first time this image has been made available.
I was asked back in 2000 to produce a print from this session but the original transparency was locked away in the files at the publishers.  I finally got the original film back last month and we did a couple of test prints that looked totally crazy! It made sense to do a print of this to complete the series.  This was the first time I shot Ville and the first time I met him.  There is only a handful of characters in this business that truly have real charisma and I remember thinking this guy has something.  15 years later I still think the same.
Only 25 available World-Wide, so get in fast. Â I can guarantee delivery before Christmas until 14th Dec 2013.
Hope you like it!
