Celebrity Photographer Breaks Down His Iconic Shot Of Björk
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- This video harry talks about his photoshoot with Björk. The legendary Icelandic Singer.
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To shoot someone as beautiful and unique as Bjork must have been amazing.
A gripping story! I cut corners once... trying to use my chemistry past its efficacy. Never again.
Also, I have been listening to Björk all my life, and at the age of 33, I finally know how to pronounce her name correctly. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing! And yes how to pronounce her name from her team itself! 😅
Metro was the cntre of the photography universe. Evryone used to meet at about 7pm and hand in your films to Arnold and then see each other at 10pm to edit. Those were the days of a real community of creatives. eally supporting each other. I can still smell that E6 bath as you open the door!
Yes, completely agree Simon. Love Arnold. I actually used him as a model for a fashion shoot for an Italian magazine! 🙂
What an amazing, and stressful, story. You’re right, she is a special individual.
Great story. Loved the added drama! I used to use Joe's Basement in Clarkenwell. I don't miss the dropping off, picking up, scanning, removing dust and scratches. What a hassle!
Glad you enjoyed - Small world as well! 😁
Wow you just mentioned a place I’d actually not thought about for decades. Brings back good memories trying to get worked processed before deadlines and using couriers sometimes. Thanks for the memories.
This would be a dream assignment. Stunning imagery and words of wisdom.
I always loved Björk for her generosity/spontaneous/raw.... Her heart is fully there.
Musically, and behind cameras.
❤ amazing
There is almost always a great story behind a great photograph.
Being a photographer in the late 90’s and 2000’s was very interesting. We definitely rode the wave of technology.
Enjoyed this on two levels. As a fan of Bjork and as an amateur photographer.
Oh my so glad that worked out in the end
Great story, glad it worked out in the end. Had a lab ruin a wedding roll many years ago, luckily it was just 1 of 12. Although the WPP winning portrait is great, I actually really like some of the environmental portraits more, especially the one with the orange objects in the window behind Bjork.
I agree!
Harry ….. Always remember the adage: ‘Buy cheap, pay twice!’.
Excellent image of Bjork, deservedly a winning image!
Wise words of wisdom for sure! 😁
This UA-cam channel is a goldmine. Thank you so much for producing these videos!
Thanks a lot!
That was a great story. Really cool to understand where these famous images come from and how they were made.
The dodgy negative would have made me just about cry. Still, thank God for the emerging tech of the time.
Fantastic story, Harry. I love the flextight and still shoot film from time to time.
Awesome story and fantastic images. ❤
What a fascinating and entertaining memory!
Great picture of the wonderful Bjork - who is incredibly photogenic. We still have 2 Flextight scanners at the university. Still have a good few students shooting film and, if printing big on digital, the Flextight is still a necessity.
It's a really cool machine 😁thanks for the comment.
Curious, which university are you at? City College in San Diego has a nice bw film program. I took the beginning class last year. My first rolls were not exposed correctly, but since I took them to the local public library and scanned the negatives on their printer, I could see that I had photos and could edit them in LRC. I kept scanning the rolls I took, because I like seeing my photos before I spent the time in the darkroom trying to print them. (Contact sheets are too small!)
Glad to hear METRO imaging still going strong. Took film to them back in the 90s and their turnaround was fast. Always remember the white plastic bags with the logo down the side with your trannies or whatever inside
Great branding!
love your stories!
That was awesome, I love hearing stories about portraiture and process.
These are nice. Glad to see it is schott on film.
wow you were an early adopter.! I was working on magazines in the 1990s and scanning film was the repro house drum scanner thing. Buying a proper scanner to scan hi res from negatives then... wow impressed! KEEP THE VIDEOS COMING... making me remember the peak of the print era.
Thanks a lot! Many many more to come 😁
My new favourite photography channel! Love your work as well as your way of telling these wonderful tales.
Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed 😁
Fantastic story great photos im sure we must have rubbed shoulders in the 90’s I’ve subscribed. As I have just returned to my passion of photography as my children have now all left home. I’m still shooting on 5x4 and Medium format exclusively respect from Northern Spain.
Thanks a lot! 😁 Any name I should run past Harry?
Amazing video! I loved watching how you broke down your process throughout your quick photoshoot with Björk. I only recently got into film photography, and appreciate how the medium forces you to add more intention and care to each photograph. I appreciate your work so much and am currently binge-watching all your videos, hahaha. Keep it up! :)
Thanks a lot 😁- We have plenty more to come!
20 mins to create award winning photographs amazing
😁 Thanks for the kind comment!
What a fantastic journey you took us on with this. Definitely have to put this one down to “all’s well that ends well” and lesson learned. But I can only imagine the names you were calling yourself when you first saw those poorly developed negs. My question is…..did that assistant get fired?? lol.
I wish all of these tales were documented into a movie
Who would play Harry ? Jason Statham ?
Best channel out there right now. So great. Thanks Harry & Fred!
Thank you! 😁
Huge Bjork fan!… I deffo would've messed it up!… 😆
You would be one of my selections in the ‘which five people would l.you like to have at a dinner party’.
Thank you!
Fantastic video, stories, and photos. Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom--including the missteps; it's invaluable.
I just found your channel recently and I'm addicted. Thanks again!
Thank you so much! Means a lot 😁
Jeepers, saying with all reverence but what a plonker thing to do with anything apart from a test role first. Had XP1 processed in a Paris pro photo lab which went through B/W processing, even though it was very clear it had to go through C41, nothing on film at all! Worked at exhibition printers in SE1 for a while and assisted many great photographers, including Sarah Moon and Albert Watson, never got to work with my fav photographer, Arthur Elgort. Went on to shoot portrait and fashion in Milan, then got a break in film industry in UK and made two feature films. Great photos and thanks for sharing experiences. I really prefer today when we have so much more control ourselves. God, I remember many times bringing back 200-300 rolls back on planes and fighting with security NOT to X-Ray the film. Usually saying the would be liable for quarter million pound reshoots did it, not niw though. Regards, Charles
You have a tremendous way of telling stories. Thank you. You can evoke the past quite magically. I suppose it's an obvious observation but did you think about the Icelandic landscapes as a backdrop? Maybe there was no time.
Thanks! That could of been good for sure - but actually, from seeing Harry's work over the years he rarely goes for big landscape backdrops come to think of it! I wonder why...
LOVE Sarah Moon!
Been there. Done that. I don’t mean taking a grat portrait. Rather, saving a couple of bucks on developing. When I got the negatives back on a concert I photographed, there were tiny marks across them. Too many to try to touch up. The only good news was that when I later got a scanner with Digital Ice I was able to salvage some of them.
It's a nightmare! Glad you could recover them
Such a great channel Fred, thanks so much for getting your Dad's stories out there as they're beautifully told and reveal so much about the personalities he's photographed. Does Harry still use Photoshop for the bulk of his editing or has he now transitioned over to Lightroom or Capture One?
My pleasure! We love to make the videos I'm glad you enjoy them 😁 I know Harry still uses photoshop. I will ask about light room and Capture One and let you know! 😊
PhotoShop is still the gold standard and it can do a lot more than either Lightroom or CaptureOne.
cool video
I love your videos as they are a great insight to another world. I bet you can laugh now but how bad must it have been at the time. Thank you
Thank you!
Still use a flextime II for everything from 35mm to 4x10 the results are wildly good.
Great story! And lol that Imacon should be worth a *wee bit more* than £25!
Artists like Bjork were helped tremendously by skilled photographers like Harry who could capture their individuality and make their image iconic to the World. Today, there are many talented artists with striking looks but we very rarely see the type of iconic photos we saw in the 90's or 00's. By all rights, I think people like Aurora or Anya Taylor-Joy should be as iconic as Bjork, Sinead O'Connor or PJ Harvey were, but I don't think the new ones are, because there are too many generic images of them.
I hadn't thought about, quite interesting. No modern artist comes to mind which has that same icon status as the three you mentioned!
We will definitely do videos on PJ Harvey and Sinead as well in the future!
If you still have your flextight, it is worth far more than 25 quid! Even the earliest models sell for several thousand euros here in France. They're wonderful, I had the luck to digitize about half my archives on one during my post graduate degree, as my school had the X1, a Hasselblad-branded model. Id love to own one but i doubt I'll ever be in a position to do so. Excellent video, youve got a new fan in me!
Thanks a lot - I will let Harry know about the price! Not sure where he got 25 quid from 😂
Is there any chance to purchase these shots of Björk? I saw there is a small retrospective of selected photos available through the site, but the glimpses shared here of those 20 minutes worth of shots are breathtaking.
At the moment sadly no, unless you look through getty or snap galleries. I am currently rebuilding Harry's website however, to be more accessible for people who want to buy prints. We will offer all the pictures featured on the channel in a variety of sizes :)
As a photo assistant in those years in London to people who I know you know personally, it used to pain them and myself that partners were preferred over working assistants. I mean lets be honest, anyone know her copy for the shoot? EErrrr no.
They’re still worth thousands.
Did Robin Bell try to print them?
I'm not sure. I will ask Harry!
Hi Jamie, Yes, I think it was. He was the best around at the time.. 😅
@@fredandharryborden Thank you Fred
You are oh so wrong about the imacon scanner price and it hurts me deeply
I searched it up after this comment. Oh how Harry got it wrong haha 😅
@@fredandharryborden If you want to get rid of it and make sure it goes to a good home. 🤠
Another great one.... shame on you :D
😂👍Thank you!
How long has this been around ?
Which part! The pictures?
@@fredandharryborden sorry I ment to say how long has this singer been around.
I only heard about a couple yrs ago when she went after someone in airport for getting to close to her child.