photo:
Nitin Vadukul
sources: Bang / RollingStone / Dig (LA) / American
Photo magazine / tumblr
scans/edit by qwerrie. tnx
2 lotta 4 the staff!
story: I shoot Radiohead for Rolling stone magazine,
when the band was really taking off. I felt like doing a layered
image, shooting each one individually and double-exposing them
on the same piece of film. What you are looking at is from one negative,
no retouching. The shot was done with Nikon F4 on Tri-X film in
natural light; a black-velvet background
minimized exposure of unoccupied parts of the frame so they could
clearly record additional heads and faces. I would run a whole roll
of film, 36 frames, on one band member,
then rewind the film back into the cassette and shoot the same roll
again on the next guy. Of course, I bore in mind where I was positioning
them relative to the unexposed areas
of the frame, to create a composition. It's like a tapestry. |