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ASH – LIVE@5

...Ravi Panchia Photography — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:32:26 +0000

Ash are currently on tour in South Africa supporting the Parlotones, they’ve been playing a few gigs for television and radio while they’re down here. On Saturday they played the Live@5 at the Openroom Studios. It was really rad to see a band that I grew up listening to in the nineties. They played a short set but played my favourite song, Girl From Mars and a few other classics like Shining Light and Burn, Baby Burn.

They’re playing at Montecasino tomorrow which should be a rad show, hoping the lighting will be good. Will post photos of the show before the end of the month.

LUCKY FONZ III

...Ravi Panchia Photography — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:43:39 +0000

Lucky Fonz recently toured South Africa playing around the country including a slot at this year’s Sexy.Crooked.Teeth Oppikoppi music festival. He has been a regular visitor to South Africa for the past three years and his following has been growing each year which is really great to see as he is an amazing performer. We shot a few promo photos just before he played a gig at Cool Runnings in Victory Park, in shooting these photos I wanted to capture the fact that despite his jovial and at time comedic persona on stage his lyrics are often more serious than one would think at first listen. I am already waiting for his next tour… Check out his Myspace page.

ZEBRA & GIRAFFE – THE INSIDE

...Ravi Panchia Photography — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:10:50 +0000

The super talented guys from Zebra & Giraffe are busy recording their second album and I was lucky enough to join them during a few of their recording sessions at Darryl Torr’s Openroom Studios. Their first album, Collected Memories, is one of my favourite records so I am super excited to get my hands on this album once it is released in a few months. Based on the few tracks I’ve heard while shooting the guys in studio I can already tell that I am going to enjoy this record. Without going on about it too much the most interesting part of shooting this was seeing how dedicated and passionate the guys are about what they’re doing. I hope to be joining them for at least one more recording session so keep a lookout for the next Zebra and Giraffe post.

If you want to follow their progress check out their Myspace, Blog and Facebook pages.

TREEFINGERS

...Ravi Panchia Photography — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:59:47 +0000

I shot this photograph this morning just before having that first cup of tea… People often ask “How are you?” or “How is everything?” I always say what everyone says which goes along the lines of “Pretty good thanks…”

So back to my point, I was in the garden on a not too bad Autumn morning and my girlfriend pointed out this tree in the neighbours garden which had lost all its leaves, my first thought was that this is exactly how I feel… so I grabbed my camera and shot this photograph, if you look at this photo and listen to Treefingers by Radiohead you get a pretty good idea of how I actually feel most of the time.

TAXI VIOLENCE LIVE @ 5

...Ravi Panchia Photography — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:13:32 +0000

A few weeks back I went to check out Taxi Violence at the 5fm studios in Auckland Park. These are the photographs.

ALEXANDER THE AWESOME

...Ravi Panchia Photography — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:15:25 +0000

A few months back I was invited by my very good friend Sven to a dedication for his son Alexander. This was my first dedication and volunteered to shoot a few photos. It was a really good day out and was good to spend some time with his family and friends. I shot everything with natural light(how unlikely is that?) and converted them to mono and tried out a few processing techniques but decided on a classic black and white feel. in the end. The photos didn’t turn out exactly as I initially planned but I still really love these.

Oh, that last photo is not of Alexander but is one of my favourite portraits to date which was shot at the dedication so I thought I would post it anyway…

DEAD ALPHABET

...Ravi Panchia Photography — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:17:19 +0000

I’ve been a bit lazy, okay a lot lazy and therefore have not been paying attention to my blog, so here goes… a few weeks ago I shot a few photographs with the guys from Dead Alphabet, they are an awesome bunch of guys and one of the best bands around. If you’re looking for some good old fashioned rock and roll then Dead Alphabet is definitely worth checking out. We were supposed to shoot at Top Star drive-in as well but I had some difficulties getting the generator working so we just ended up shooting at Justin’s place. There only idea I had was ‘negative space’(whatever that means). These are the photos…

THE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING LARK

...Ravi Panchia Photography — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:59:37 +0000

So Lark’s Ramfest performance was my first Lark gig. All that I am going to say is that is was phenomenal. Inge Beckmanm’s performance this weekend was the best performance that I’ve seen in ages… WOW!

RAMFEST – DIE HEUWELS FANTASTIES

...Ravi Panchia Photography — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:01:30 +0000

This weekend Ramfest finally came to Johannesburg, the lineup was a bit disappointing but I was really keen to watch four bands(Die Heuwels Fantasties, The Narrow, Boo! and Lark) on the lineup because I had either never seen them or it had been a while since I last saw them… Die Heuwels Fantasties falls into the former category.

So I get to the venue at about four in the afternoon and the Jo’burg sun is directly in front of the stage beating down on aKING and I am already dreading shooting anything while the sun is up. I hate shooting bands in daylight and with direct sun on a band it just makes things all that more difficult to get interesting shots…

In the end I decided to shoot Die Heuwels Fantasties as if the sun was a huge spot light and hope that some post production would take care of the rest…

Also, they’re a band worth watching…

Photos of The Narrow, Boo! and Lark coming within the week…

DEAREST READER

...Ravi Panchia Photography — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:58:14 +0000

Last week Thurday I went to see one of my favourite bands Dear Reader play at the Rustic Theatre… The Rustic Theatre is not my favourite venue in terms of shooting photos as the lighting is always pretty atrocious. These are few of my favourites from the night.