Magazines that celebrate indie rock music often photograph bands outside in locations like fields or back gardens to portray them as cool, quirky, and down to earth. Images taken outside of a studio or of bands performing on stage help show artists in their natural habitat doing what they do best and create excitement, making the audience want to be like them and share in the experience. These kinds of images present bands as cool and celebrate British music.

3. In magazines such as NME that celebrate indie rock
music, outside locations such as fields and back
gardens are often used to photograph bands, you
may see a band sat on a wall or a gate. This helps to
show the band as cool, quirky or down to earth.
Images taken outside rather than a studio show the
artists as down to earth. Typically British locations like
pubs and cafes often also feature. The use of this, a
look of pure quirkiness is, again, achieved, whilst the
suggestion is that these bands are completely British
and that the music of our great nation must be
celebrated.

5. Images of artists on stage performing at a gig are also often
used. Within these images, we see classic indie rock
iconography, such as guitars, amps, drums, mics and the
artists themselves ‘rocking’. This shows the artists in ther3e
natural habitat and shows them doing what they are best
at, performing. Again, the use of such locations creates a
representation of the artists as cool, making the audience
want to be like them and perform themselves. Images that
are taken on stage of the artists performing are usually
taken mid action, so a certain amount of the electricity and
excitement of the performance is captured too, this causes
the audience to perhaps feel that they are ‘there’, sharing in
‘the moment’.