Really happy to be joining Yushy and Jak Hutchcraft this Sunday at Sound Affects, Brighton.
Sound Affects is a long running series of talks around rave culture and dance music and I’m super happy to be part of the program.
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A request to support a brilliant London music college, LCCM, with a visual refresh turned into one of my favourite commercial projects of last year.
The brief: document daily life, environment and equipment at their Waterloo campus, plus two of their increasingly popular live jam events at their in-house venue Music Box.
Leaning into my 20+ years of experience photographing London music scenes and events, plus my training in documentary photography and photojournalism, I came up with creative ways to gently light the learning spaces to match the energy of the students and music within them.
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When writer, broadcaster and fellow Hastings resident Michael Smith told me a few months ago about visiting St Clements caves, underneath the West Hill, it was quite a story. He’d visited the caves as part of a feature for the brilliant independent magazine Get Hastings. Fast forward a few months later and he and Beth King (the editor of the magazine) had come up with a whole 45 minute film inspired by the caves, but which delved further into the wider “esoteric underbelly” of the town.
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A big thanks to Richard Akingbehin and Resident Advisor, for giving me the space to talk about some of my favourite music related photos & a little bit about my history with photography and music.
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A big thanks to Richard Akingbehin who wrote this really well researched and thoughtful feature about the Dubstep forum and its impact on the evolution of Dubstep. It’s illustrated with 5 of my photos of the early Dubstep scene, from my Drumz Of The South series.
I was happy to be mentioned in the feature for my contributions to Dubstep Forum in the form of links to my Flickr Albums of events like DMZ, FWD>> and Skull Disco.
I was an active user of the forum from 2004 onwards and it was very important in building my network and growing an audience for my music photography. I made friends through the forum that I am still in touch with today and while as Richard points out, the forum went from being something fairly intimate to an absolute beast, it’s still very close to my heart!
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A couple of weeks back I had the pleasure of capturing some event photography for Boiler Room x Ballantine’s True Music In The Round. This was the first proper socially distanced live music event that I’ve documented since the pandemic so it felt really exciting to be in among the action again.
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Here’s the video from my conversation with Lisa Der Weduwe at Youth Club Archive about my photography, blogging + ‘00s technology & social / digital media, diy & grassroots community & much more.
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Photos from the 2nd SOUTH CIRCULAR at LIGHTBOX, MARCH 2020 by Georgina Cook
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GIF of Skepta, unknown MC and Hatcha at FWD>> at Plastic People, 2005, by Georgina Cook. From my Drumz Of The South archive.
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Portraits and location shots of GD4YA records in and around SW2, Croydon and DnR Record Shop; captured last week. Felt quite emosh taking the train into Brixton and walking up Brixton Hill, past St Matthew’s Church and other old hang outs.
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A night with Steam Down
Thanks again to the Steam Down crew for giving me their blessing to document the night which was not only the release of their brilliant single Free My Skin, but also the first time keys player Dominic performed his own music under the name Doom Cannon.
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I will be showing some music photography from my Drumz Of The South archive as part of Boiler Room Festival 2019: Day 3 - Bass THIS FRIDAY EVENING (11th October).
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Here’s a photo that I captured of Skream pulling up a track that Loefah’s playing, taken at DMZ in May 2005.
©Georgina Cook 2005
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Last week I was invited by writer and now broadcast journalist Clare Considine to talk about my relationship to London music for her new show on Radio Primavera Sound “London Scenery.”
The show is on air at tonight (16th Jan) at 9pm UK time and 10pm Spanish time.
LISTEN HERE: https://www.primaverasound.com/radio/shows/london-scenery/london-scenery-1x01
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I am delighted to have been invited by Youth Club Archive to London’s V&A museum this Friday, to talk about my experience photographing the early Dubstep scene alongside a projection of my images. The talk is part of a brilliant evening programme that celebrates electronic music in youth and subculture.
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I was very excited to hear that Mala (DMZ / Deep Medi) will be joining The Outlook Orchestra + guest vocalists at The Royal Festival Hall (Southbank Centre) this coming December.
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In the run-up to Red Bull Music Odyssey event which happened on the 30th of June - the platform published a series of articles focusing on the photograph's and photographer's that helped to tell the story of some of the key genres and movements that in contemporary UK Music History. I was honoured to have some of my photos included.
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Some photos from Full Flow event at Corsica Studios last month. Portraits of ERSATZ, East Man and A.G plus a few of the vibes from the club. I tried to capture some of the essence of what makes a club a club. I also captured some portraits of some of the LCC students in attendance at the event - they'll be posted at another time :).
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Here's a moment from the Who Want's A Rewind? installation at Tate Modern last week (Jan 26th). A moment when I looked up to see lots of people dancing in a dark room to amazing music playing on a solid PA.
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