A Life Style

Considering I ride BMX and have done for nearly 6 years now, I don't shoot nearly half as much as I would like to, I ride for a small company called H I D E O U T B M X, they produce limited hand made apparel from t-shirts to bags, hats to jumpers, and stickers. We produce videos as and when we can and we always get a lot of good feedback off them. Here is some of my work from a sport that has turned into a life style.

A New Religion

There has been a new night start up in Leicester on a Tuesday, in a room that has been freshly refurbished at the back of Rockafellas, the night is called Religion, it is all about cutting out the crap and cheesy music and playing what people want to hear, going in hard with a mixture of grime, hip-hop, dubstep and drum and bass, along with a few fruity numbers to mix things up. Guy contacted me and asked if I was up for being resident photographer as he wanted to have the photos shot with a fisheye, so I accepted and shot from the start, it's going really well and the guest list has been maxed out for the 7th week running now.
Here are a few from Religion Tuesdays.

To The Studio

Following the home coming gig at SUB91 By The Rivers saw the photos and got so stoked on them Nile contacted me and asked if I wanted to be the bands photographer, I said yes of course! So they then had a few weeks in a studio in Leicester to record their new album, they asked me to document the ins and outs and general banter from the coming weeks so here is a few shots that I picked out from the best part of a months recording.

By The Rivers

My friends Jordan and Nile have been in a series of bands though the years and as I have grown up with them I have supported them at gigs and things like that, recently they formed a group called By The Rivers, they have been going for just over a year or so now and are flying, they were asked to go and support The Specials on their full UK tour! Anyway when they got back they played a home coming gig at SUB91 in Leicester with support from Elephant and Park Bench Society, I asked jordan if I would be able to shoot it and without hesitation he said yeh no worries mate. The gig was incredible and everyone was stoked on it. Here are some of the photos that I selected form the night.

Getting Up To Date

I have been snowed under with editing and other work that I haven't really had time to upload anything but I had bait of time at work this morning to gather the best of my past work to show to you. To come is two model shoots one with Bex and another with Ellen, some of my night club photography as I have been made a resident photographer on a Tuesday night for a night called Religion Tuesdays also with this is some band photos from By The Rivers who have made me their band photographer so I will be uploading a gig they played and also some studio work they have been working on, and another band called Park Bench Society who have also asked me to photograph them. I will be uploading some of my BMX photography that I have gathered over the past year or so too and that should be me all up to date!

I have also made a Photography page on Facebook, so if you would like to view more of the work you see on here you may do so by clicking the link below.

http://www.facebook.com/JoeWhitmorePhotography

Editing Update

Again, sorry for the lack of posts, here is what I have been working on over the past month or so, I haven't had time to update this as editing has taken over. 

Here is a series of previews of the work that I have been producing, this is a model shoot that I and Ellen have been working on, she contacted me asking me to help her build her portfolio.

Another modelling shoot that I have just recently done is with Bex, we got together and discussed a few things and she said that a Sweedish band she went to see asked her to model in one of their t-shirts for there website among other stuff, so we shot this the other day.

Everypeoples is an event that is held be a tight group of friends over in Hinckley, they hold the night at The Music Cafe in Leicester, I got the chance to shoot the DJ's playing their sets just so it helps me build my portfolio.

Here is another night that was held at The Music Cafe, called LCMC, one of my friends Speeds aka Nick Rai played a set and asked me to shoot him so that he could use the shots to promote his music and put them forward to producers and labels.

I have been working closely with By The Rivers, a band from Leicester, these guys went on tour with The Specials and played a smashing home coming gig down at Sub91, they have also asked me to shoot them in future gigs and work with them when they are recording there new album in the studio.

Sorry

Sorry for the lack of posts at this time of year, I got all sucked up in the whole christmas and new year thing and ended up being pretty busy. I have 2 DJ sets that I need to upload, a gig from a local Leicester band called By The Rivers who got back from there tour with The Specials as well this there is my best of 2011 photography to be uploaded and a model photo shoot, so I will get this up to date as soon as I can!