From 13th October, critically acclaimed music photographer Sebastian Edge will be presenting a new exhibition of ‘Unseen Works’ at London’s Metropolis Studios, including photos of Radiohead. Edge is a leading exponent of the 19th century Wet Collodion photographic process, a long and often arduous technique that involves using sheets of treated glass in place of film in the camera. Word of Edge’s method reached Radiohead, who then got in touch with Edge, leading to a collaboration in 2011.
As Edge explains: “In January 2011, I received a call from Radiohead HQ, they’d heard about a photographer that was making pictures with this early Victorian process, with a camera built from Hurricane timber, and wondered if I was still making pictures having disappeared from the music scene for a while.” He continues: “Within a few weeks I arrived at their studio and spent two separate days making the pictures for their King Of Limbs campaign. A day in the woods and a day at their studio. Colin, loved it, being a photographer himself. And after a while I think they realised these weren’t just photos they are works of hard crafted art and as analogue and as hands on as it could possibly get!”
The exhibition will provide a rare opportunity to see the portraits of the band, as well as images of other groups such as The Mars Volta. Some of the proceeds raised from the exhibition go to support Proactiva Open Arms, an NGO from Barcelona who are dedicated to saving lives at sea.
