NIGHTLIFE PORTFOLIO 2017
Unless otherwise stated, images contained within this portfolio are from 2012-2017, taken in or around the LGBT scenes in Belfast and Glasgow.
“People fascinate me; who they are, what they look like, where they’re from and why they do what they do.” Simon Crawford is a photographer, currently based in Glasgow’s West End, specialising in portrait and nightlife photography with a style consisting of colourful and energetic imagery. While he specialises in portraiture, his work also includes fashion and documentary styles - all of which have a connection to the main themes within his work. He worked for a decade in Belfast, documenting the LGBT scene and working with a wide variety of creatives throughout the fashion, art & performance sectors. He’s been published internationally, in Beyond Man, Gay Times, Pink Mince, Crotch!, GNI Magazine & What White Elephant. As well as his own publication, BAKE, in 2014. As part of Outburst Queer Arts Festival in Belfast 2012, he produced an exhibition titled “F.Q.U.: Framing Queer Ulster”, a collection of LGBT portraits from 2009-2012 His subjects have included drag queens, artists, actors, musicians, freaks, jedi knights, party boys and glamorous creatures. Capturing this has always been what he aims to achieve within his work, using aspects of the subjects personality and own creativity to influence the outcome. As well as working on his first coffee book of portraits, collected from over a decade of work, he is currently documenting Glasgow’s LGBT scene as resident photographer for both “Sickening Glasgow” and weekly night “Trigger” at AXM Glasgow. If you’d like to commission or collaborate, please contact Crawford via: phone: email: web:
07518384750 simon.crawford.photo@gmail.com simoncrawford.tumblr.com
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NIGHTLIFE PORTFOLIO 2017
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