“If the camera has some light to shine, why not shine into places that perhaps have been neglected”, he tells me. These themes of neglect, of hidden histories and of giving voice to the suppressed are key to his work. ” In a radical move, it also gave plenty of space for the musicians themselves to offer their own stories, it gave them their own voice. It’s Not About A Salary was unique in that it told, as mentioned in Ghostnotes, “the hidden stories of musical genius, police brutality, racial segregation, political resistance, and gang violence that defined. I don’t think of myself as the photographer’s photographer, I’m more of someone with some ideas that happens to use a still camera but I also use moving images and sound.” “To be honest I’ve always thought of cameras as a tool, I never really had that epiphany moment. I asked him whether there was ever a moment when he saw his future as a photographer. to study photography, with Allan Sekula as one of his professors, and it was there that he would make his name, publishing the book It’s Not about a Salary: Rap Race and Resistance in Los Angeles in 1993, which brought him a heap of praise. “I mainly used it for rephotographing I moved from that to landscape photographs at Art School in Ireland and from that to photographing in Los Angeles.” It was 1990 when he moved to L.A. So where did he first get the taste for photography? “I first picked up a camera in Ireland”, B+ tells me. In many ways his photos have illuminated these figures in exactly the same way as he would treat Ice Cube, Eazy E or Q-Tip. Often this spirit has been applied to lesser-known musicians, the ‘unplayed’ of the title, figures such as Axelrod, Arthur Verocai, Wilson das Neves, the Colombian greats of Ondatropica, as well as many other anonymous participants. If there is one theme that runs through his work it’s that of finding the everyday in these musicians’ lives, of stripping the spectacle from their persona. B+ shot to notoriety for his photos of hip-hop luminaries such as The Fugees, The Pharcyde and Jurassic 5 (to name barely a few) as well as taking that iconic shot for DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing album, but he has also worked on many other projects, including a catalogue of work in Brazil and Colombia (where he has frequently collaborated with Quantic) as well as profiles of Brian Wilson, Yusuf Lateef, Mulatu Astatke, David Axelrod and a whole reel of other eclectic names (all of whom feature in Ghostnotes). It seems Ghostnote's visions of what they want to be are getting more clear, but it's still hard to say what will come out after refining it some more.Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed is the title of a new book, an extended photo essay if you will, featuring the photography of B+, and it couldn’t better sum up the musical characters that fill many of its pages. With their first album released at the early 2010, Getting a great female vocalist from his fiancée, picking up more guitars and a drummer shouldn't be too hard.Īnd practically that's how Ghostnote was born. Read Full Bio There is more than one band by the name of Ghostnote:Ģ) Ghostnote is a five-member rock-pop band from around South Ostrobothnia, Finland.įormed in summer 2008 from the bassist's idea to try create something to blow up some spare time. They have 3 singles so far, the new & 3rd single is the 11th Ending theme for the anime Gintama.Ģ) Ghostnote is a five-member rock-pop band from around South Ostrobothnia, Finland. Ghostnote is a Japanese band Formed in 2003 in Okayama, Japan.The band has 3 members : There is more than one band by the name of Ghostnote:
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