East African Creative Portraits :: Kenyan Musicians Drummer Artist
James Malack Drummer Artist :: Kenyan Musicians Portraits Photographer
Model: James Malack Malachi KE
Location: Goodrich Kindergarten Academy
Photography: Antony Trivet Photography
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We always forget the drummer in most events especially on a live music shoot because they are often poorly lit and trashing about behind a cage of obstructive metal. When one can get over the preening singers and over-socialized guitarists, some of the most dynamic rock images to be made are of a drummer in full swing, arms’ a go-go…basically picking up individual members aside from the obvious targets can result in some of the most rewarding great images like the ones below…..
East African Creative Portraits :: Kenyan Musicians Drummer Artists
“She would be asked to climb a low wooden platform in the hall and hold an expression for a class. Students would shuffle their gaze quickly, back and forth from her to their easels to get the details. She felt hugely self conscious to begin with, with two dozen eager eyes gazing at her, taking in her every detail, warts and all, her cheeks flushed and her folded leg trembling involuntarily. She would make an extra effort to cover her front teeth by pulling the lower lip over them. This and her self consciousness would tire her. But a few sessions down and she became used to the attention. And then, also she had also never known such leisure. This sitting idle had its benefits. She realised she would find solution to many a pending question. She would make little budgeting of her savings in her head. Her mind would move from matters of the canteen to Pali’s problem. At times she would so overcome with wretchedness that she would have to deliberately snap out of her thoughts and begin to inaudibly recite the mool mantar. However, all in all, she began to look forward to this. Like zero hour. At the end of what was a fortnight or twenty days of sitting, she was overwhelmed, looking at a studio full of her portraits.”
― In The Land of The Lovers