When looking back at iconic musicians and their styles such as Joy Division, U2, Radio head and New Order when growing up , it was hard to find a photographer who captured this bleak, eerie, urban sound in their photography and when visiting Manchester I came across a book about Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. These photographs were by Anton Corbjin. Anton Corbjin is a Dutch photographer, film maker and writer, who was drawn to the British pop music. Taking him to England, Anton Corbjin started photographing the early days of David Bowie , U2 and Depeche Mode. He started out his career when photographing a local musician in a Dutch Café in 1975. He took a lot of photos of the 'rising star' Herman Brood & His Wild Romance and so the exposure of Anton Corbjin rose very quickly. He was the creative output behind Depeche Mode and constructed not only promo shots and sometimes, though more rarely live shots, but album art including U2’s Joshua Tree and Mettalica and Rolling Stones’ album art. I was drawn to his high contrasts between black and white and rather than just shooting in black and white he shot in blue, brown and even red (as well as colour) one of his own creative trademarks,. Anton Corbin's work is celebrated all over the world today and is a great influence on my work because of its sense of photojournalism and documentary photography, his work emphasises the importance still of film within not only music photography but popular culture.
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