Working: How to Photograph a Hardcore Punk Show
Slate Books
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3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of my friends at the time would say, |
| 0:12.0 | leave your camera at home, just come and dance and enjoy the show. |
| 0:16.0 | But I wasn't not enjoying the show when I was taking pictures. |
| 0:20.0 | And the times that I did leave my camera at home, I kind of felt like I had always regret it, you know? |
| 0:29.7 | Welcome back to working. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm your host, Ronald Young Jr. |
| 0:33.3 | And I'm your other host, June Thomas. |
| 0:36.0 | June Thomas, it's wonderful to be here with you once again. |
| 0:39.9 | Tell me whose voice was that to be here at the top of the show? |
| 0:42.7 | That, Ronald, was Jim Saw. |
| 0:44.9 | Jim is a photographer who specializes in capturing live musical performances, |
| 0:50.4 | particularly from the Washington, D.C. punk scene. |
| 0:53.3 | Ooh, this is of interest to me as a DMV resident. |
| 0:57.8 | So I know why I want to hear from Jim, |
| 1:00.0 | but why do you want to speak to Jim right now? |
| 1:02.9 | Well, a couple of years ago, Jim published a book |
| 1:05.6 | that showcased some of the concert images he took |
| 1:09.2 | between 1982 and 1997. And that book, in my eyes, |
| 1:14.6 | sold out really quickly, but it has just been reissued. I was really curious to hear about |
| 1:20.8 | that scene and especially to talk to a photojournalist who is still working today about how much the profession has changed |
| 1:28.6 | in the last 40 years. And in short, the answer is a lot. |
| 1:32.9 | Yeah, that would make sense. I feel like the punk scene is something that continues to evolve |
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