Tales on Film

When we were in London a couple of months ago, we kind of bumped into an exposition of rock photos taken during the 60′s and the 70′s. That would mean off course that they were taken during the film era. So we decided to check it out as it was a free exposition. Immediately I started to recognize some pictures of rockstars and celebrities.

Turned out we stumbled upon an exposition of Philip Townsend, you may recognize his work with the beatles and the rolling stones. Later on I learned that the exposition was for the 50th celebration of Carnaby street. When we went in, there was a older man sitting at a table selling some prints, after a while we started talking and it turned out to be Mr. Townsend himself. That was rather cool. I bought one of the limited edition and signed Lambda prints he was selling there for 20 pounds.

After that I boldly asked if I could take a picture of him between his photos. He agreed, when I took out my Rolleiflex standard 622 he was even very interested why I still shot film and which camera I was using. So that made the portrait even better. I have to say, although I’m a professional photographer I was pretty nervous taking a picture of a photography legend with an analog camera. But it all turned out pretty well and the result is on the top of this post.