More Related Content More from Gary Marlowe (20) 1. IMAGES OF
THE WAR OF THE
WORLDS
IN BRIGHTON
gary marlowe IMAGES OUT OF THE ORDINARY DECEMBER 2012
2. IMAGES OUT OF THE ORDINARY
ABOUT THESE IMAGES
THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME I’D SHOT ‘THE WAR OF THE WORLDS’, JEFF WAYNE’S MUSICAL VERSION OF THE
H.G. WELLS NOVEL ABOUT A MARTIAN INVASION OF THE EARTH. THIS TIME, IT WAS THE SO-CALLED NEW
GENERATION WITH A NEW CAST AND LIAM NEESON REPLACING RICHARD BURTON AS THE NARRATOR.
WHILST I WAS ABLE TO SHOOT THE WHOLE SHOW, I AM NOT ALLOWED TO REPRODUCE ANY IMAGES OF LIAM
NEESON, WHICH IS SOMEWHAT IRONIC AS HE IS THE ONLY MEMBER OF THE CAST WHO WASN’T REAL! IT’S NOT
AN EASY TO SHOW TO PHOTOGRAPH: THERE’S A LOT HAPPENING AND THE FIRST TIME I WAS SEEING IT WAS
THROUGH THE LENS. I WAS ALSO SHOOTING IT FROM A FIXED POSITION AT THE BACK OF THE VENUE BY THE
LIGHTING DESK. WHAT’S MORE, WITH A GIANT SCREEN, A BAND AND AN ORCHESTRA IN THE BACKGROUND, IT
WAS EXTREMELY HARD TO GET ‘CLEAN’ SHOTS OF THE CAST. IT WAS ALSO NIE IMPOSSIBLE TO GET GOOD
SHOTS OF JEFF WAYNE AS HE HAD HIS BACK TO THE AUDIENCE THROUGHOUT THE SHOW. DESPITE THOSE
CHALLENGES I THINK I MANAGED TO GET SOME GREAT SHOTS OF THE PERFORMANCE, INDEED I HOPE SO
BECAUSE I WAS THE ONLY PHOTOGRAPHER SHOOTING IT! OF ALL THE PERFORMERS, THE ONE THAT STOOD
OUT MOST FOR ME WAS RICKY WILSON, BEST KNOWN AS THE SINGER IN ROCK BAND, THE KAISER CHIEFS.
APART FROM HAVING THE MOST PROMINENT ROLE, HE WAS ALSO THE MOST ANIMATED CAST MEMBER AND
THE MOST PHOTOGENIC. WITH THESE IMAGES I’VE TRIED TO CAPTURE THE SPECTACLE OF THE SHOW, EVEN IF
THERE ARE NONE HERE OF LIAM NEESON. I HOPE YOU LIKE THEM AND THE LOOK I’VE GIVEN THEM.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NOTICE
THE IMAGES CONTAINED IN THIS PRESENTATION WERE CREATED BY GARY MARLOWE AND, WHILST BEING
AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ON SLIDESHARE, THEY REMAIN THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF GARY MARLOWE
© GARY MARLOWE | 2012
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38. IMAGES OUT OF THE ORDINARY
ABOUT GARY MARLOWE
WITH A BACKGROUND IN MARKETING AND GRAPHIC DESIGN, GARY APPLIES HIS HIGHLY DISTINCTIVE VISUAL
STYLE TO CREATING IMAGES OUT OF THE ORDINARY ACROSS A DIVERSE ARRAY OF SUBJECT MATTER, FROM
ROCK MUSIC, FAST CARS AND FASHION TO FLOWERS, FOOD AND ANIMALS. WHATEVER THE SUBJECT, HIS
WORK IS INSTANTLY RECOGNISABLE, BOTH IN ITS COMPOSITION AND ESPECIALLY WITH ITS PLAYFULLY
ILLUSTRATIVE GRAPHIC STYLE. INVARIABLY, HE USES HIS IMAGES TO TELL STORIES AND IMAGINATIVELY
CAPTURE A ONE-OFF EXPERIENCE.
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