Any Back to the Future fans out there will, of course, know about the DeLorean car and its time-travelling fame from the classic 80’s film. But not many people know about the brand’s origins and role in Northern Ireland’s history. This year in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Freedom Picture Company have decided to honour that story, in DeLorean.
Today, tickets went on sale for the National Theatre of Scotland’s exciting new project, Home Away 2016. In autumn 2016, ten theatre companies from around the world will come together to present a series of productions telling stories from their location. Some weeks ago, Jack (my loyal dog-come-photography assistant) and I packed my camera and headed out to five of these locations across Scotland, to create portraits of some of the participants in the productions.
Home and Away – National Theatre of Scotland. Design by Gabriella Marcella at Risotto
National Theatre of Scotland. Home. Dundee
Ten years ago last month marks a decade since the National Theatre of Scotland nailed their colours to the mast and declared themselves open. Rather than choose one production in one location, they created HOME – a series of plays taking place in one weekend across Scotland. I was lucky enough to be invited on board, to capture five of their nine events in one weekend.
Earlier in the year I worked on the photography for the Scottish Ensemble’s new season with O Street. I was given a brief to create some images that would have a fashion edge to the portraits, I really enjoyed trying to get the performers to give me some attitude and get them to posture for the lens. I had to stitch two coloramas together to get a cove big enough to shoot groups in. A great company to work with in the studio and then after they let me on stage during a rehearsal at the Queen’s Hall with Chris, my assistant following me round with a flash on a stick to get the latter images. The resulting images in the brochure look fantastic, lovely design by Andy at O Street.
Make up: Charlotte Condliffe
Assistant: Chris Gillies
Jonathan Morton Artistic Director and Leader of the Scottish Ensemble
I shot my pal Becc Sanderson’s gig “Passion Flower” the other day, with her husband Chris Grieve as the trombone player, here are a couple of the images, oddly enough for a colourful gig black and white seamed to work best.
Before Christmas I was working with the fantastic National Theatre of Scotland once again – this time on their production of A Christmas Carol. It was an amazing production, performed in a purpose-built space.
Not only was it very “intimate” for the audience, but the lighting was, well the critics said “atmospheric”, I say dark. Visually stunning, although very tricky to shoot – but we finally got there. If it ever comes round again, I can only recommend trying to get tickets if you can.
These images are for what Celtic Connections went for in the end the ostreet boys have been doing their usual magic with them.
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I shot these the other day for Ostreet as part of their successful tender for the Celtic Connections Music Festival. Thanks to Becky and Lily for their patience.
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