Alex Curran
The potential for narrative photography is bound to how easy it is to share and view photographs on networked social platforms that impact on culture and society. As a music photographer, I benefit from how quickly socially networked photographs circulate and lead to professional opportunities. At the same time, it happens that my authorship and control over the image rights are ‘lost’ and or credited to others.
My press pass gives me professional as well as personal privileges. Backstage photographs can convey who the performer is privately as well their performance-self. I really enjoy the experience of seeing and representing this. By necessity, advance planning means predicting the vantage points I will use to shoot during the show and essential for delivering images useful for publicity. But I also value spontaneous photographs in which some performers may have a more personal interest.
I am entrepreneurial, comfortable with critical reflection and good at dealing with complexities. I like learning from other music photographers and seeing how I improve over time by making my own mistakes and testing my capacity to work in a way that combines empathy and independence.
Night Owls
This project has been built around my deep interest in music and event photography. It focuses on capturing the intense energy and atmosphere created when the musician or performer is in action, on stage, in front of an audience. The photographer is at the mercy of this situation or the crowd when she is photographing from their perspective. But something different can be achieved when the photographic event involves a direct exchange between performer and photographer without the chaos of the live audience.
Found
Found is a project that I worked on in the first semester of 3rd year. This project is solely based on film negative slides that I purchased at a car boot sale in 2018. I decided to create a project using these film negative slides. This project narrates the progress of discovering something fantastic and the journey of bringing that object to where it originated from. This project was very difficult to narrate, although I believe the outcome is very unique and interesting.