NEIL MASSEY PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG — ROMEO SO SOLID
SO SOLID CREW 2001 - THE FACE - VIRAL WAVE
One of my favourite series of photographs from my archive has got to be when I was commissioned by The Face magazine to photograph So Solid Crew in August 2001. They had just gone No.1 in the UK charts and were on top of the world. We went shopping down Oxford St in central London.
Last week this series caught a mini viral wave on Instagram; Accounts it was shared on were @dametalmessiah, @linkuptv, @imjustbait, @grmdaily and @harveyoffical from So Solid.
This then caught the attention of @thefacemagazine who interviewed me and...
ROLLEI + BLOODY CHUNKS
I'm really excited to share a collaboration I’ve been working on with Rollei. This weekend Rollei launched their new website where you’ll find my work ‘Bloody Chunks’ - The Vietnamese Underground Metal Scene. This body of work was photographed between 2012-14 when I lived in Saigon, Vietnam. Shot using Rollei’s ORTHO 25 Plus medium format film. It's extra special to me as I have been using this film and its earlier incarnation for over 20 years.
In the late 90’s I shared a photography studio in Mount...