ART// GARETH GREENFIELD
GRAND GARETH
LANDSCAPE SCHMANDSCAPE! WHEN YOU THINK OF (Northern) Irish photography, where
photography into my work, as I find it important to get creative,
does your mind think of? Awk, are you thinking of wee
especially when I’m that stage of constant development and
landscapes? Aye, the typical agricultural natural beauty of the
willing to take fresh ideas, increase my equipment and present a
country. Spending the last 18 months learning photography, oh
...not a polish but a wax finish...yeah let’s’ go with that.
mummy, I’ve met an abundance of photographers from baby cake smashers, to horror to skateboarding. Now I’ve sort of
Obviously during this new age of Covid-19, wear a mask, stay
added myself into queer umbrella of camera work. I say camera
distant, sanitise all that stuff is really important, however my
work because I am a videographer first. One of the local bars
style of directing is spontaneous and at a fair distance already,
asked me to do a night doing photography for them and for
so not much has changed. I am the model that never was, so
the same night, a local drag haus, Haus of Falls, started up their
I end up posing as if I was the model and hope to get such a
own ball and wanted some sort of coverage for it.
model to mimic me. It’s really cool when I see it work but I wish I modelled more...
Comparing those images, 18 months ago, to now? Flip me there’s a massive difference. So understanding that I have a
Anyway, stay Covid-Free, and be grand!
unique perspective of this part of photography, I was able to expand into Brighton, UK to work with more drag artists
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there. Working with this nice variety of artists, I get to adapt of
SHOOTING FOR ONYA BECK’S TRIBUTE MUSIC VIDEO FOR KYLIE MINOGUE’S SONG ‘SAY SOMETHING,’ I WAS PRACTICING TEST SHOTS OF ONYA LYING ON THE FLOOR. I HAD RECENTLY INVESTED IN STREAK AND STAR EFFECTS IN CAMERA AND THUS CAME THIS DREAM-LIKE IMAGE OF A QUEEN LYING ON THE FLOOR BESIDE A POLE.
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