The Garden, a PJ Harvey Discussion Site

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Valerie Phillips “I feel like with PJ Harvey I won the lottery, because she’s my favorite all-time artist, singer, writer, and musician. I worked with her a bunch of times and this shoot was in L.A. She actually taught me a really good life lesson. I had two ideas for a shoot — one set in the desert, and the other in a downtown motel. She picked the desert and when I told her we had to pick her up at 5 a.m. she said, ‘But my work hours are nine to six.’ I thought she was joking. I’d shot her so many times and was like, ‘Polly, it’s me! What are you talking about?’

“I realized that she’s taken a huge amount of control over the way she works so that when she’s there and you’re doing a shoot with her she’s on fire and she’s 100 f–king percent, but she’s doing it within her boundaries. At the time, I didn’t have any boundaries. I was working 24/7 and saying yes to everything but when I realized she was serious about not getting up early to drive into the desert I thought, ‘You know what? I really think about my life differently.’ Not long after that I stopped working on the weekends. I didn’t travel for a year. I not only took a leaf out of her book, I went really far with it. And by the way, we ended up staying in L.A. and they’re my favorite pictures of her that we ever made.”

Denmark's hottest rock photographer Søren Solkær Starbird is going to make a cover for Gaffa with British Arctic Monkeys. But the band hates photo shoots, they have a hangover and don't smile just because they have to be on the cover of a Danish music magazine. The program follows Søren Solkær's work and zooms in on rock photography that can kick-start careers and transform musicians into icons. Also meet the singer PJ Harvey and her photographer, who for many years have created PJ's very special visual expression.

Carla Azar i just found this < polly harvey sent this to me before i went to bristol to record 'A Woman A Man Walked By" with her and john parish. I got to witness polly (literally) barking into a microphone during one of the takes. lucky me.

bruise wrote:Thank you Romario, and thank you for all your uploads. Do you know if this polaroid has a background story?

Romario11 wrote:

bruise wrote:Thank you Romario, and thank you for all your uploads. Do you know if this polaroid has a background story?

it was saved to my desktop, Can't remember where I found it..

On the Road PJ Harvey, Big Day Out, 2001. Polaroid from my book ‘Peace Love and Brown Rice A Photographic History of the Big Day Out’ Plus others appear there too. Behind the scenes with curator Bridget Purtill @squeekywheels at @glasshousepmq - so much work ..but PJ always finds her place. My current exhibition is jam packed into the Glasshouse..in a breathable way ! Thanks to @kenwest_kenfest for having me along on the road. #bigdayoutfestival @bigdayout #hottest1002001 #hottest100 @triple_j @doublejradio #doublejradio #goodtimes #womeninmusic #musicfestivalphotography