Nice to see the gothic results of a book cover collaboration for Random House with designer James Fraser coming out this month. The Mark of Cain is a new book by author Lindsey Barraclough.
It’s a story that moves back and forth between the middle ages and present day for a teenage audience and James asked me for something “HAUNTING, but not too scary….EERIE….ENGAGING…ETHEREAL….CREEPY ...
During the filming of my recent feature documentary about the Irish band The Frames : ‘The Frames In The Deep Shade’ they ended their 20 year anniversary tour in Whelans in Dublin. Whelans was, and still is possibly, the best small music club in Dublin and I knew it well. In fact I shot my first ever live music photography there watching The Davy Spillane Band in August 1991. It was a nostalgic visit coming back and seeing that it is still a thriving venue. It also made me think of the book I produced when studying photography in 1992. “Rock Seen”.
The book that I made as a graduation piece was called ‘Rock Seen’. I cringe now at the naked ambition of doing a book on the Dublin Rock Scene and ...
Conor is a photographer and film maker based in London. His images can be viewed on his website on the PHOTOGRAPHY and FILM links above. This blog is a good place to see all sorts of personal work and general projects in progress.
