A few weeks ago the guys over at Quint Magazine contacted me about featuring my work in their next issue which would be known as their music issue. I flipped through a few copies of the magazine and really liked what they were doing so I agreed and today the magazine hit the shelves. Currently the magazine is only available in Dubai (stocked in all Virgin Megastores) but is also available to read for free online.
I answered a few questions about what it is like working as a music photographer here in London and you can read all about it from page 56 of issue 12. Read it for free here. The rest of the magazine is very cool too so give it a full read. I feel really grateful for this so “thanks guys”.
I photographed Face to Face playing the Kingston Peel on Tuesday night and the guys over at Banquet Records have used one of the images on their flyers to promote upcoming New Noise evenings that they run. Great band, Great show and amazing Records Store. Check them out. You can also see a few more of my shots from the night HERE.
My friends in Young Guns have their biggest tour coming up next month and it’s going to be incredible. They just sent me the artwork for their tour poster / flyer featuring the new logo and one of the photos I shot with Gustav when they played at Brixton Academy last time round.
I can’t wait for this. Make sure to get on down. They are explosive live.
The guys from The Spindle Sect have just relaunched their website and have used a few of the photos that I shot of them recently and I think it looks really cool.
The boys from We Are The Ocean have just release their first single (What It Feels Like) off their 2nd album which is dropping soon. The track is amazing and free to download from their website so do that now.
They used a photo I shot of Alfie that I took during their show at Kings College from the end of last year and I love how it came out.
Keep watching these guys, album two is going to be epic.
My friends from Zebra and Giraffe are endorsed by Fender and have just become a featured artist on their site. They used a bunch of my photos of the guys and it looks really cool so check it out here.
I work with the guys from Young Guns quite a lot and it’s always a good time for me. Gustav is their front man and he is currently endorsed by Dead Heroes Clothing which is the brainchild of Mike from the band Lostprophets. Anyway, I shot a photo of Gus wearing one of the new range tees and the guys from Front Magazine used it in a feature. This is the page.
I have been working really hard lately but having a lot of fun at the same time which is always good news but unfortunately I battle to make time to keep my sites up to date and blog as much as I would like to but that’s just how things go. I finally had some time to go through my portfolio site and update a few of the galleries on their although I have to admit I still have a lot of shoots to go through so I will keep updating it.
If you have the time you should check it out and let me know what you think. The band / music galleries I have just updated include Group Portraits, Individual Portraits and Live Music.
So I have been working like crazy lately which is a good thing but I hate that I have so much new work to show and no where to show it. I mean, I really liked the way my old website looked but it really just was too much distraction as apposed to just showing off the photographs. It’s always hard to think of the best way to showcase online because I do not like Flash based websites purely because I have seen so many people having issues using them and in the end I think I wanted to make sure that mine would be as user friendly as possible. The website I had also never allowed me to put the photos up at a decent size so with all this in mind I have created a new one from scratch and although I am still filtering through photographs and updating the content, there is a good amount up so that I can release it.
If you have a chance, make sure to check out www.marcusmaschwitz.co.uk and have a look. As I said I am still busy uploading content so keep checking back.
This is a screen grab of the home page, hope you like.
Earlier this month I was booked to shoot Bloc Party’s live show in Brighton and seeing as they are one of her favourite bands we decided to make a day of it. We rented a smart car (which ended up being a ton of fun on its own) and then drove down for a day in a place that we really love a lot. Later that afternoon we made our way to the venue for one of the best shows that I have worked at this year. It was a good time.
Below is a photo of my girl with our smart car in Devils Dyke and then 3 of my most liked images from the show.
Wow, I just double checked and it has really been a long while since I updated on here the live shows that I have been shooting of late. I am trying to do them in batches purely because I have a whole blog dedicated to my music photography and you can check that out on www.londonbandphotography.co.uk and I will do my best to update that as I go along.
The last few weeks have been amazing and have really reminded me why I love music so much. I have shot some really cool promo photos with bands that are definitely on their way up and I will be releasing those photographs when the bands are ready with those. In the mean time, here are a few photographs from some of the live shows that I have shot for either print / online magazines, band pr or the actual bands themselves. All were amazing for sure.
I hope that you are all well. I just have to add that I went to Marks & Spencers and Sainsburys earlier today and I am SO excited at how much stuff they already have for Halloween. Bound to be a good time.
A little earlier this year I shot photographs and wrote a live review of The Gaslight Anthem’s show at the HMV Forum in Kentish Town and I just noticed now that they have quoted me on their MySpace which I thought was really cool because I love these guys and it was so cool working with them. Below is a screen grab of the piece on their MySpace and then a photo of Brain Fallon rocking out during the live show. Check them out if you don’t know them. Like I have said before, they will make you want to roadtrip right now.
Currently listening to : Feist and Benjamin Gibbard – Train Song.
I am currently working with a really cool company that is going to represent my band photography specifically in Germany after they contacted me a few weeks back. They are busy uploading some of my passed work but I have a bunch of new and exciting projects that will be going up as time carries on. I am quite excited about this.
You can check out their site on www.zwei-kameraden.de. Below is a screen grab that I just pulled from the front page of their website and it has one of my photographs that I shot with the guys from Papa Roach as well as one that I shot live of Andrew from Jack’s Mannequin.
A few weeks ago, the editor from Bluntmag regarding my photograph and the work that I am doing in the music industry here in London. I always feel weird with stuff like this because I don’t ever want to come across arrogant or anything like that because I don’t think I am “cool” for doing what I do, I just love it so much.
Anyway, you can read the interview (please do) online for free at http://www.bluntmag.co.za/people/features/?article_id=2317. I think it came out pretty cool and it contains some information about how I started out. It was fun thinking back to those days.
Below is the front page of the article as well as some of the band photographs that feature in the article (including Bloc Party, Papa Roach, Rise Against, Swivelfoot, Zebra and Giraffe, Taking Back Sunday, Nofx, Juliette Lewis and The Gaslight Anthem). I hope you like it. Please let me know what you think.
I shot a few portrait press photographs for Clink Music Magazine with the guys from Papa Roach last month at Oxford Academy and it was super easy to work with them. Honestly not knowing much about their music I decided to stay for the live show which really was one of my favourites this year. The band has an onstage presence that is almost engulfing and they all make you feel like it means the world to them that you are there. It’s weird but in a really cool way.
Anyway, I am telling you all of this because during the time they were being followed around by the guys from Pocket TV filming a tour diary of sorts during their Oxford stay and I just got sent the video which came out really rad. You can see me shooting with the band in the rain on the roof (around 2min35) and then again snippets of me shooting the show during their live set.
If you are at all a PR fan then you should watch the video so you can get to know them a little bit more and if you aren’t you should watch it anyway and see me hard at work, I think the video will interest you enough to want to give them a listen which will be worth it in the end. Some people say they are arrogant but I never saw this during the time we spent with them. It wasn’t long but don’t always believe what you read.
This is one of the portrait shots (see more here) that I shot and below is one of the live shots (see more here). You really need to see the portraits high resolution to appreciate them because it was raining quite hard and you can see each of the drops. If you care to see a higher res image, contact me and I will send it on to you.
As some of you may notice, I have returned to my old layout for this blog because I actually like it a lot because it is so simple. Things here have been quite busy of late which is always good. I have shot and worked with a bunch of amazing bands and shot a lot of press and promotional portrait stuff that I unfortunately cannot show yet until I get the go ahead but I will make sure to get this stuff up as soon as I can. In the mean time here is some of the work I have shot live in the last few weeks.
I shot a bunch of photos of Brand New and I like them a lot. The photos have been used in a review for Clink Music Magazine so check them out on there too if you have a chance.
Going to try another blog post today.
These are my favourites from the show although it was one of the hardest shows I have ever shot because it was SO dark.
Well I have just added an update on the portraits that I have shot in the last week or 2 so this is an update with some of the live shots that I have taken recently which have all been really amazing. I will be adding more soon and you can read more about the shows as well as see more photographs from each of the shows on my band photography blog on www.londonbandphotography.co.uk.
Yesterday I shot a few portraits with Senses Fail as well as a few during their live set and it was an all round good time. Always a pleasure meeting decent people in the music industry.
I will update and add links to the magazine review and interview when they go live so check this post again soon.
In the mean time, here are a few photographs during the time I spent with them. To see more you can visit my Band Photography Blog. Hope you well. Marcus
Last night was the last day of Give It A Name 2009 and it was the best night of the two. I photographed Thursday, Underoath and Taking Back Sunday and all in all it was a super night. I have to say again that the lighting really was weird and by weird I mean (not good). Not only as a photographer but as a fan, I didn’t understand how all the lighting was focused between the front guys and the drummer and that there were no front lights so every one was a silhouette. Never before have I seen a setup like this, not even at a super small club where they only have 5 lights at their disposal. Anyway, I appreciated the fact that I was working with a D3 so that I could atleast boost the ISO up a little more than I ever have.
These are a few of the shots that I took during the day. If you want to see more, have a look at my Band Blog by CLICKING HERE.
Last night I photographed The Blackout (black and white photos) and Give It A Name which was at the Brixton Academy. It was the first night of two and a super night out. I am most excited about sunday though but these are a few of the photographs I shot already. If you want to see more, click here to see my Band Blog.
The lighting was quite hard to work with because the stage is mostly back-lit and I don’t really enjoy shooting in that condition but I made do with what was available and feel there are some good shots.
Last night I shot photographs with Cassette as they played here in London to launch their new album. As always it was a super cool show and a fun time out. These are a few of the photographs from the show but you can see more on my Band Photography Blog by Clicking Here.
This weekend is a really busy one shooting for me so I will update a lot as I go along. I hope you are all well. Marcus
Last night I photographed Bloc Party which was really amazing. When we moved to London just over 3 months ago I bought tickets for the Wife and I to go because it is one of her most favourite bands. I didn’t think that 3 months later I would be commissioned to go and shoot the show so it was an absolute honour and I gave my ticket to our sister and the 3 of us went to party.
They were amazing and so super humble and that makes me like them even more. I love it so much when bands remember where they came from and thank their listeners for getting them to where they are because without them bands would never get big. These are a few of the photographs that I shot during the show, I have a whole lot more and will try sort through them later and try add a few more if I get a chance. In the meantime enjoy these and if you would like to see some more, you can do so by visiting my Music Photography Blog by Clicking HERE.
On saturday night I photographed two really amazing bands at The Royal Albert Hall, being Bullet for my Valentine and Fightstar. The event was in aid to raise money for a really cool charity, Teenage Cancer Trust and I really hope that it went well for them and that they received the support that they were hoping for.
This was super fun job to work on and I met some really nice people that I hope to see and / work with again. I have to also add that The Royal Albert Hall is one of the most amazing venues I have ever been to and probably the best live venue if I really think about it.
Here are a few of the photographs that I shot on the evening. To see more visit my music blog on www.londonbandphotography.co.uk
My friends Byron contacted me today to tell me that some of my Zebra and Giraffe photographs are available as desktop downloads on the Coke Fest website and I thought that I would post them on here. They are 1280 x 1024 pixels so click on the thumbnail to open up the larger size and then save as you please.
Last night I got to shoot one of my most favourite bands and it was out of this world. I really wish I could work with these guys more. Rise Against played at The Roundhouse and I feel sad that it is over now. They will be playing again in August so I am already counting the days.
These are just a few of the shots I took. You can see more on my band blog
