I did an installment exhibition this year (2023) that was made up of nine 12 foot panels of my photos on site. I pitched this concept to Bonnaroo back in February as a possibility for 2024 and they decided to start it this year.
It’s all shot on color film with more of a portrait style lens, and I use a diffused flash for a soft fill.
#Gorilla tattoo series#
It’s a more refined portrait series in comparison to the I am Bonnaroo Project.
The I am Bonnaroo Yearbook series is a new, official collaboration with Bonnaroo which kicked off this year. This year a guy showed up at the Yearbook shoot with his girlfriend and asked if he could get naked for his portrait and proceeded to disrobe in front of a line of people waiting to have their photo taken! I saw a dude walking around mid-day one year wearing nothing but a Dunkin Donuts apron. LZ: What have you experienced at Bonnaroo that made you laugh the most?ĭB: Oh, there are so many moments. It’s a modern Woodstock ’69, with laser lights, but organized much better. The Bonnaroo culture is very modern hippie. So my camera and film choice for Bonnaroo was deliberate. I couldn’t imagine what being there must’ve been like. Back when I was 14 years old and living in Nebraska I came across a book of photos from the ’69 festival. So I bought a 1969 Nikon F and brought a few rolls of Kodak Tri-X to the Farm. When I first thought about how I wanted my images to look before heading to Bonnaroo in 2011, I immediately thought about the original Woodstock Fest. But I’ve never made the comparison to how I dress for Bonnaroo. And I’ve dressed up like Dennis Hopper’s character in Apocalypse for Halloween.
#Gorilla tattoo movie#
Do you think you were searching for a peace and love vibe that you may have missed, being too young to go in 1969? If so, did you find it?ĭB: Ha!! That’s wild because Apocalypse Now is my favorite movie of all time. LZ: I’m interested in the idea that you’re suited up like Dennis Hopper’s character in Apocalypse Now, with Vietnam-era camera gear attending a communal gathering like the original Woodstock festival. Then I realized that I was missing something at Bonnaroo-specifically, color is a big part of the festival.
Typically I feel that unless color plays a role in making an image better, it can be a distraction. I just started incorporating color film a few years ago. The I am Bonnaroo project is full-on street-style photography, shot mostly on black and white film. Shooting film is an expensive labor of love, but it’s the only way I’ll ever shoot my personal work. Having said this, if I were shooting events for publication or doing commercial photography, it would make sense to shoot digital. And I love being able to point to a film frame on my light box and think, “That’s it that’s the original capture.” To me, that makes it more substantial from an art photography standpoint. More and more moviemakers are shooting scenes (and whole movies) with film again for this reason. David Bruce: Images captured on film have a look and feel that is unique.
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