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alt.photo

....photographic assassin....

About Me






what i do

live shots, promo shots, portraits/headshots, artwork & commissions
special rates for unsigned bands...please message me for detailsplease have a look in my pics section for more examples of my style of work

My Interests

photography * music * gigs

I'd like to meet:

i want to meet bands, musicians, photographers, promoters,
anyone with a passion for music & photography!

if you want to add me PLEASE say hello first!

Music:

viper88s... the hold steady... the shins... oosterdok... bob dylan... green day... radiohead... dan bern.... the raconteurs... nine inch nails... new order... nebraska... the long blondes... johnny cash... elliott smith... placebo... depeche mode... white stipes... pixies... aerials... boy kill boy... maximo park... interpol... david bowie... ray la montagne... patti smith... blue meridian... bright eyes... flaming lips... blondie... joy division... the strokes... foo fighters... velvet underground... the killers... the greenhornes... james... goldfrapp... morrisey... magic numbers... editors... pss... ludovico einaudi... howling belles... the arcade fire... the subways... guns n roses... muse... mexicolas... the police... derrin nauendorf... arctic monkeys... the doors... eels... nirvana... pink floyd...

photo of the week

anna page [ anna page band ]

10 things i've been listening to this week in no particular order

back in the cage (demo) - dexy
robbers - cold war kids
books from boxes - maximo park
all the love in the world- NIN
motorcycle - the rumble strips
disaster - the besnard lakes
we used to vacation - the cold war kids
blockbuster blue - blue meridian
dead souls - joy division
bar stool blues - viper88s

viper88s cover of 'i heard it through the grapevine'
live at the hope & anchor 9 MAR 07

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mexicolas advert for 'falling'
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see how many alt.photo pics you can spot!!!!!

Movies:

breakfast at tiffany's... donnie darko... memento... shakespeare in love... bad education... matrix... amelie... hero... streetcar named desire... brokeback mountain... some like it hot... the pianist... fight club... rebel without a cause... blowup... eternal sunshine of the spotless mind... cat on a hot tin roof... three colours trilogy... man with a movie camera...

Television:

have to say... haven't been watching much lately... but currently enjoying prison break 2 & lost 3... frasier & friends are a great distraction... i love a good documentary... & mtv of course... i hate 'reality' tv, any form of 'celebrity' programme, itv & 99.9% of the rest of scheduling...

Books:

george orwell... jean-paul sartre... margaret atwood... paulo coelho...albert camus... a.a.milne... aldous huxley... jonathan safran-foer... milan kundera... douglas copeland... michael cunningham... donna tarrt... jack keouac... sylvia plath... yevgeny zamyatin... anthony burgess... susan sontag... charles bukowski... jenny diski... robert m pirog... biographies and anything good really but absoulutely no mindless 'chick lit'or 'fantasy' sci-fi

Heroes:



music photographers: paul harries.... ami barwell... tina mclelland... jim marshall... jill furmanovsky... steve gerrard... kevin westenberg... scarlet page... steve gullick... and he's not a music photographer but... my dad, who bought me my first camera when i was very young, and let me trail around after him as he took pictures... To put any of these banners on your page, please copy and paste the code below the image into your profile text.

My Blog

taking bookings for march photoshoots...

calling all bands, singers musos & models... i have a limited number of weekend dates for photoshoots next month, before i scamper off to south africa for a few weeks... they are:1/2 march both bo...
Posted by alt.photo on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:34:00 PST

AltPhoto update....

well& long time no see& i've been so busy the last couple of months that i haven't been updating much&too busy shooting! so i thought it was about time i shared some of the photos i've been taking rec...
Posted by alt.photo on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:41:00 PST

the cull....

i have just been editing my friends list....& deleted half of my contacts....& here's why....there were so many people there, so many that i had NO contact with at all.... so you got deleted i...
Posted by alt.photo on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:23:00 PST

dexy & the hand me downs...*new photos**

a couple of weeks ago i was very honoured to be asked to photograph dexy's new band, the hand me downs. it was quite a short shoot as they were at their rehearsal space & had to get on with things...
Posted by alt.photo on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:31:00 PST

a week of gigs......& some new photos

i got back from france last weekend....& after a week of rest i went headlong into a crazy week...so instead of posting loads of blogs, it's all here in one go!first up on monday, we saw the inimi...
Posted by alt.photo on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:46:00 PST

alt.photo update....

i seem to remember sending out a bulletin before i went to france telling you guys to look after the place while i was gone&.i come back to find floods, terrorist activity & a new PM! some joker a...
Posted by alt.photo on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:16:00 PST

cillian lohan @ 12 bar 18 JUN 07 **new photos**

i was back in the land of the living on monday, & back at my first gig in nearly 2 weeks. to celebrate i was doing double duty tonight, photographing & videoing cillian at the 12 bar, with my ...
Posted by alt.photo on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:38:00 PST

hot rocket @ eclipse 5 JUN 07 **new photos**

ok...so a couple of weeks ago, before my life went all weird & wobbly & i ended up in hospital on a morphine drip....i got all up close & personal with the boys from hot rocket. they playe...
Posted by alt.photo on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:00:00 PST

unsigned guide 2007

my copy of this years UnsignedGuide arrived the other day....very exciting, cos i'm in it! i'm hoping that this will help me get lots of new work....fingers crossed.......
Posted by alt.photo on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:17:00 PST

vote for my photo!!!

i have submitted a photo to JPG magazine....votes aren't the only decider to whether it gets published or not, but it helps! the theme is 'ready to rock' & i submitted a photo of nick from hot roc...
Posted by alt.photo on Wed, 30 May 2007 03:43:00 PST