not blogging enough i guess

homeless summer

Shot with disposable cameras.

pâles et nerveux

Je déteste la musique française. Que ce soit la variété française, la pop ou pire le rap français. Il y a même eu du rock & roll français et de la disco française, et je déteste ces trucs de la même façon. Je trouvais la culture musicale française vraiment super pauvre, et absolument éloignée de tout ce que j'aime.

Sauf que j'ai découvert que de 1979 au milieu des années 1980, il y a eu des groupes vachement biens. La plupart des gens n'ont connu que les plus médiatisés à l'époque (Indochine, Lio, Taxi Girl...), mais il y avait une scène underground incroyable. Des groupes qui ressemblaient beaucoup aux groupes indie d'aujourd'hui : fauchés, perdus et humbles. Pas de messages politiques, pas de lyrisme, pas de chaleur mais beaucoup de mödernité : la new wave française. Y en a qui vont dire que ça sonne ringard, moi je préfère écouter ça à des groupes soit-disant actuels comme The Drums ou Two Door Cinema Club. Vive la France et vive les années 1980.

Une sélection de mes morceaux favoris issus de cette vague éphémère et glacée:

Performance - Idéal Présent

Liaisons Dangereuses - Etre Assis ou Danser

Mathématiques Modernes - Disco Rough

Moderne - Electronique

Deux - Game and Performance

Elli et Jacno - Les Nuits de Pleine Lune

Modern Guy - Electrique Sylvie

Ruth - Polaroid Roman Photo

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Larousse Baron Bic

Pour télécharger les chansons, cliquez ICI.

La plupart de ces morceaux sont durs à trouver aujourd'hui, mais vous pouvez les acheter via des chouettes compilations.

BIPPP [acheter sur Amazon.com]

Minimal Wave Tapes [acheter sur Amazon.com]

So Young But So Cold acheter sur [Amazon.com]

abandoned soviet buildings

In april, we shot a fashion series for Vice magazine in Warszawa. The day we arrived was also the day the president (and most of the government) died in the plane crash. Special thanks to Szymon.

Mathématiques Modernes - Disco Rough [buy]

(french synth-wave band from the 1980's)

concerts

The Drums at La Maroquinerie (Inrocks Indie Club), Paris



Turzi at La Flèche d'Or (French Made Rock party), Paris

upside down song

I discovered Bathcrones on Platform, through one their Jookbox mixes. This song is perfect for party endings, when the sky is getting brighter. Kind of a druggy electro track that doesn't sound digitalized or synthesized at all.

Bathcrones - Vineyard Of The Sea

tess roby

Where have you been lately? Do you travel a lot?

In the summer I went to England with my family. I spent a lot of time there growing up, so it’s quite a close place to my heart. I went to New York City in October, for the second time in 2009. I guess I do travel a lot, I love it.



Do you watch a lot of movies? Are there any films that you really feel close to?

Yeah, I suppose I do. I feel really close to movies I watched a lot when I was a child. “The Secret Garden” especially. Every scene in that movie could be a photograph, it’s all so beautiful. I cry every time I watch it.



Is there a period of history in which you would have loved to live?

Super hard question! The way Robert Frank photographed America in the 1950’s is breathtaking. Possibly there, or Paris in the 70’s.



What kind of music do you listen to? Did you discover any bands that amazed you in 2009?

There’s so much, really. 2009 was a great year for music. I really liked Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors. 



Do you feel that you belong to the indie photography scene that has developed mainly through flickr ?

I started taking film photographs long before I joined flickr. I think it’s really cool that a whole group of photographers are getting decent exposure for their work, just from flickr. I don’t feel as if I belong to it, but it’s nice to think I’m a part of what’s going on. 



How old were you when you started to take photos ?

I was really young actually. My parents bought me a 35mm Minolta point and shoot for Christmas when I was about three years old. I still use it.



- Do you study photography?

Yes! Hopefully I’ll continue to do so in university as well.



What do you think of today's fashion photography ? Are there fashion photographers that you like ?
I don’t pay a lot of attention to fashion photography. I like what I see though, for the most part, if it’s well done!

Tess Roby on flickr / myspace

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