Print Store Now Open!

At long last, prints are now available through the online store. 

This is a long time coming and I’m really excited to launch with this first set of photos, and see what comes of this. 

The first set for sale is a selection of six wildlife photos taken while on tour with Bastille in South Africa. I displayed this set for the first time in a physical exhibit as part of a popup restaurant night in Dublin on Friday. The positive response has encouraged me to push forward with selling my prints—they look absolutely amazing when printed on this high-grade paper, and I truly want to see my work getting out and ending up in people’s homes. 

These are fine arts prints, printed by a great Dublin company called Inspirational Arts, by a team who are insanely committed and proud of their art. So far they are available only in the UK and Ireland while I figure out issues of international shipping further afield. If anyone is desperately excited to purchase a print elsewhere, get in touch and I’ll figure things out faster. 

This is exciting timing as there are some developments coming to sell music photography as well. Keep an eye out for announcements in the VERY near future on that front. 

I have wanted to sell prints of my photos for years now. I can’t wait to get a music set up as well. For now, I’m really excited to share these photos from the Bastille safari days—I loved photographing the animals and the landscapes. I looked for the same kinds of emotion and stillness in the wildlife photos as I try to capture with bands. 

I look forward to feedback from you, and hope you enjoy these photos as much as I do. Here’s to a big step forward for me! 

Pop into the store here!

Frank Turner At The O2 Arena, London

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls have just finished their most recent tour: a circuit of arena shows around the UK. They performed for over 40,000 fans last week at shows in the largest venues across the country: Edinburgh, Manchester, Nottingham, Plymouth, London, and Portsmouth.

What is most impressive about the O2 show is more than just the fact that Frank has now played the largest indoor music venue in the country.

It’s that he did it with as much joy and connection with the audience as he had in the early days in Nambucca. He can play “The Ballad of Me and My Friends” and while he’s outgrown the lyrics the crowd is still right there with him, singing along. It’s a real testament to him as a musician and performer. He knows his fans, and man—an arena show like this really proves that his fans know and love him and have stuck through his journey from tiny pubs to the arena floor.

For about half the show he had Cahir playing guitar, which meant I got some awesome shots of him dominating the stage—he’s really gotten the hang of performing without a guitar in his hands.

As if all this wasn’t enough, this show also had pyrotechnics. Talk about a flare for the dramatic.

Bastille In South Africa

It’s not too often that I get to test my photography skills against wildlife or landscapes. I grab the chance when I get it, but unfortunately that’s far too infrequent. You just don’t go around as a music photographer thinking that a safari is part of the job. No elephants, no rhinos, no lion cubs crawling on the lead singers.

And then Bastille went to South Africa

The safari and hanging out with the animals at the sanctuary were absolute highlights of the trip. I can’t believe how awesome it was to be in the midst of truly wild places. We even got locked into our rooms at the hotel one night since there were leopards prowling. The banter and stories with the group when they’re together and off the beaten track like that is awesome as well. As usual, hanging with the Bastille crowd is such a fun way to spend time—any opportunity for either genuine passion for what we were witnessing or a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour… and that’s what we had.

Of course the point of the trip was the shows. And there were some huge ones. They had two great performances in Cape Town in an outrageous  setting. Between being right there alongside the forest and the mountains and the enthusiasm of the fans just blew me away. It’s very cool to get so far from home turf but see a similar attitude in the crowds. Then the show at Johannesburg was absolutely off the charts: 15,000 and their biggest show ever.

This was quite a tour. Start to finish I might even call it one of the best.

Bastille UK & Europe

This tour with Bastille has been one of my very favorites. Seeing the energy and the showmanship of these UK and European shows just blows my mind. I'm really looking forward to the upcoming tours, and to their next album. Absolute legends.