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.
