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Stephen Wright writes:
Its about 29 years ago this week that I shot the Smiths at the Salford Lads club. A really cold winter day and hardly ideal for photos!
Shot with my first Nikon and the "wrong" wide angle lens I processed the film in my bedroom/darkroom. There was no make up artist or hairdresser-it was simple shoot to put it mildly.The club was shut in the day and we all shivered outside it and then shot more image at the end of Coronation street and in the Arndale shopping centre.
A few weeks later Morrissey sent me a thank you postcard – written on Boxing day – something to treasure!
Little did I realise that those photos would become quite well known. It was all pretty nerve racking, as I'd shot them live several times and yet had never met them. I was lucky to get this chance and of all the musicians I shot, these are the ones I'm most proud of.
It was another 19 or so years until I went inside the Lads club and found out about it's intriguing history – I'm allowed to make my own cup of tea there now when I visit. I've reshot "that" photo with fans in aid of various charities and the people at the Lads club were just so helpful!
I've just given them one of the Smiths images to produce a T shirt – available for one year only. Which they should be putting on sale soon.
With Christmas around the corner…
There's a 15% discount on Smiths and other musicians signed Limited edition photographs
http://wrightphotolimited.zenfolio.com/smiths
Main site http://www.smithsphotos.com/
There's the Smiths, Prince, PIL, Miles Davis, James Brown, U2, etc
Apply the discount code xmas2014
right at the end of checkout
Treat yourself or give as a gift…
Stephen Wright writes:
Its about 29 years ago this week that I shot the Smiths at the Salford Lads club. A really cold winter day and hardly ideal for photos!
Shot with my first Nikon and the "wrong" wide angle lens I processed the film in my bedroom/darkroom. There was no make up artist or hairdresser-it was simple shoot to put it mildly.The club was shut in the day and we all shivered outside it and then shot more image at the end of Coronation street and in the Arndale shopping centre.
A few weeks later Morrissey sent me a thank you postcard – written on Boxing day – something to treasure!
Little did I realise that those photos would become quite well known. It was all pretty nerve racking, as I'd shot them live several times and yet had never met them. I was lucky to get this chance and of all the musicians I shot, these are the ones I'm most proud of.
It was another 19 or so years until I went inside the Lads club and found out about it's intriguing history – I'm allowed to make my own cup of tea there now when I visit. I've reshot "that" photo with fans in aid of various charities and the people at the Lads club were just so helpful!
I've just given them one of the Smiths images to produce a T shirt – available for one year only. Which they should be putting on sale soon.
With Christmas around the corner…
There's a 15% discount on Smiths and other musicians signed Limited edition photographs
http://wrightphotolimited.zenfolio.com/smiths
Main site http://www.smithsphotos.com/
There's the Smiths, Prince, PIL, Miles Davis, James Brown, U2, etc
Apply the discount code xmas2014
right at the end of checkout
Treat yourself or give as a gift…