NEIL MASSEY PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG

LORD SPIKEHEART LIVE ICA | NOVEMBER 2024

LORD SPIKEHEART LIVE ICA | NOVEMBER 2024

I had the pleasure to meet Lord Spikeheart this year, a highlight for sure. A true original artist who you've got to see live to fully appreciate. He leaves it all out there, genuinely connecting with his audience. I photographed Martin at The No Bounds Festival in Sheffield and again at the ICA in London. 

As Ammar Kalia described him in his Guardian piece "Over the past decade vocalist Martin Kanja, AKA Lord Spikeheart, has become a figurehead of the burgeoning Kenyan metal scene: first with frenetic speedcore...


ARSENAL PHOTOGRAPHY 24/25

ARSENAL PHOTOGRAPHY 24/25

A new personal project to photograph outside and around the Arsenal stadium for this 24/25 season during home and sometimes away games (the local pubs). This set are from the opening home game of the season.

ORLANDO BLOOM 'THE CUT' FILM 2024

ORLANDO BLOOM 'THE CUT' FILM 2024

Photography of Orlando Bloom for new film 'THE CUT' (2024) by Neil Massey. Shot on the film location in a portable studio.

THE BEGINNING (P.1) 1984-87

THE BEGINNING (P.1) 1984-87

It only seems right to start at the beginning around 1984. I was 13 and at secondary school in Fleet, Hampshire. My older sister Andrea had just started Farnborough 6th form college in the neighbouring town. Her new friends were a bunch of punks, much to my mum and dad's dismay. I was into BMX’s / Arsenal and listening to Electric Dreams and Ghostbusters.

BARACUTA AW/23 FASHION CAMPAIGN

BARACUTA AW/23 FASHION CAMPAIGN

Commissioned by COLD ARCHIVE Productions and Baracuta to photograph the New BARACUTA AW23 Campaign. Shot in 4 locations in East London, for this Campaign we worked with non-models; Boxers at Repton Boxing gym, footballers at Hackney Wick FC, Barbers at Brick Lane's 'Thy Barbers' and an afternoon with the locals in the east end - Birkbeck Tavern.