PJ Pic of the Day #10

[TheNightingale]

What a neat handwriting from fresh-out-of-school PJ, compared to her nowadays chicken scratchings lol

[Romario11]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7j_nUcIn_i/

[lepetitlord]

Not sure if this one got posted back in 2021

PJ Harvey 4/1/95
I just found this c-type print of Polly Jean whilst clearing out my garage.
Born in Chris Cook's darkroom at Metro, it traveled to Los Angeles to be used in LA Option, the magazine that commissioned the shoot.
After, it arrived back and was 'stored'.
I have thousands of these 'work' prints. Relics from an analogue age.
This one escaped from its box and spent 10 years on the floor of a barn before winding up in my garage.
An extremely un-archival environment.
I'm glad its acetate sleeve offered so little resistance. It's possible the elements made it a more interesting picture...?

From Harry Borden 's instagram posted on the 21st of March 2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CMriGgZpEXr ... BiNWFlZA==

[bruise]

It looks like the flags were spelling "Welcome to Louse Point"

[Sebastiano Boina]

PJ during "The Desert Session vol. 9 & 10" recording, 2003:















And this is Barcelona sound festival, one of my favourite moments, unfortunately i couldn't find a professional photo of it, so i took a screenshot:

[Romario11]

https://www.dagsavisen.no/resizer/0uoYM ... MCFVG4.jpg

[Orange Monkey]

Aha! Now we know where her twitter picture is from.

[simonvdl70]

what happenned to Stephen Vaughan? I wonder how he's doing, he was a really good bassist.

In 2013 Rob Ellis said ‘nobody hears from him at all or knows what he’s doing. I think he lives a sort of hermit-like existence’, and that he hadn't spoken to him for ten years (https://www.spin.com/2013/05/pj-harvey- ... ve-albini/). That wasn't quite true, as he appears on Spleen which was made in 1996 - so it was just seven years!

(In fact, checking, everyone appears on Spleen - John Parish, Charles Dickie, Sammy Hurden, Jess Upton ... Has anyone else here actually listened to it? Or just me?)

Asked John Parish last year and he doesn't know. A bit of online snooping suggests Steve might still live near Yeovil, and the postcode ends in... PJ, lol.

[moon_]

[Romario11]

[Romario11]

Another photo from the Kevin Westenberg session https://www.instagram.com/p/C9fo5dYtf1G/


PJ HARVEY. LONDON. ENGLAND. September 27, 2000. Photo: ©Kevin Westenberg. I had my dig through those NME/MM/VoX archives in Kent a few weeks ago and thought I had found all the prints I was ultimately going to find. However there must have been a box I missed. The great and powerful Dean Chalkley contacted me to say he had some of my prints which he discovered while looking through it all himself last week. It was a mix of prints from all those magazines listed above which included most of the prints shot of Polly in 2000 for an NME cover story including this one. This shot occurred not long after the famous BW Polaroid shot of her holding the white porcelain tea cup. Instead of it being a Polaroid, this is the real deal shot on film with the Mamiya RZ that I used for 25 years and now a new favorite! Mood! Now…Some juicy backstory: Polly was here to promote the album: ‘Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea’. Her image and demeanor had fully matured to brilliant refined mode now. She looked healthy and was chatty. Her quiet confidence was a glorious thing to observe and be a part of. The first set-up was always traditionally to see where we’re at with lighting levels and all the other details as a reference so all involved can see ‘the look” and if we’re all happy or not? Once everything was settled we got 5-6 great setups, which I’m happy with to this day. As a photographer on the day, you’re watching all the tiny minutia of details to do with lighting, shudder, stop and depth of field but….the fan inside is tuning in to the soul and essence of the subject to see any moment of pure uniqueness which will show their inner beauty and uniqueness. Showing a side that nobody has seen previously which was high on my goals list. Setting the technical palate was a no brainier but digging deeper was something that happened only when the technical became second nature during prime time. Photo: ©Kevin Westenberg.

[Romario11]

Loren Haynes photography

[Romario11]

Hi-res version

[bruise]

I first met PJ Harvey at Glastonbury 1995. She was raised fairly close to that area, and unlike most of the bands I knew or saw arriving, she pulled up on her own, driving herself in a little JEEP type of vehicle.
After a staggering performance in a strange greenish coloured one-piece outfit that grabbed your attention, carrying and beating the stage with a cane that definitely grabbed any attention she or the onesie didn't command, she absolutely wowed the crowd. I mean seriously , it was big. It was cool. You still see photos of her in that pantsuit from that performance over a quarter of a century ago. And after, she made her way through the grass to her car again.
I couldn't believe it. PJ Harvey. Near me. In the real world.
That's where I interrupted her worn-out trudge back to her vehicle and home, and said "hi. My name's Johnny. I'm a huge fan and I'd really love to take a quick picture of you before you go. Or would you rather I just go away?"
To which she replied "Could you just go away?"
I said " yeah yeah sure, I'm sorry I interrupted. I know this is a weird place to ambush you" and she said something about " maybe we'll do this again sometime " and I thought "I will never see her again in my life".
But oh, I did. At least a couple more times. Ending in a really funny meeting, an interview, a nipple rubbing, and an excellent final photo.
(This was a warm up pic to see how the light was going to look on this day and this box of film). - photographer Johnny Riggs

[Orange Monkey]

Not entirely sure I would employ a photographer who described PJ's 1995 Glastonbury outfit as "greenish coloured"!