Iggy Pop

All the photographers at the festival wanted to photograph Iggy Pop, but there were too many! So we had to be ‘considered’ by the PR Company. Somehow I was one of the chosen 15. I wasn’t... read more too fussed, I have never cared much for Iggy Pop’s music, I don’t dislike it, It just doesn’t do much for me. No mistaking though this was a photo opportunity not to be missed.

Iggy was rehearsing in this place. The film had got stuck in the camera and when I got the processed film back some of the images were overlapping - this is a partial frame. We love accidental art! ’Sweet’... read more is not a word assosiated with Iggy but there is certain innocence to those pictures.

All the photographers at the festival wanted to photograph Iggy Pop, but there were too many! So we had to be ‘considered’ by the PR Company. Somehow I was one of the chosen 15. I wasn’t... read more too fussed, I have never cared much for Iggy Pop’s music, I don’t dislike it, It just doesn’t do much for me. No mistaking though this was a photo opportunity not to be missed. The pit was tiny and I managed to get centre stage right in line with Iggy. It was frightening! Being inches from his boots with the aggressive show he puts on made me fear for my teeth. This photo to me sums up the raw energy and passion he has for what he does. Lust for Life? He has for his.

"Who's that girl?" the two old ladies on Sunset Boulevard asked the journalist, Roy Wilkinson, standing on the pavement, as I shot Iggy Pop in the very middle of the road with cars whizzing past... read more on either side. This was my first trip abroad for a Sounds cover shoot and Iggy did not disappoint. He is 'Iggy' 24 hours a day. Shame about those bloody car insurance ads though.