London-based sports and music portrait photographer Tom Oldham has shot some of the world’s biggest and best names in music including, Paul Weller, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Elbow, Prodigy, Tinie Tempah, Plan B, Ed Sheeran, M.I.A., Rudimental, and Primal Scream, among many others. For his unique portrait project ON/OFF (to raise money for War Child UK) he photographed artists the moment before a big gig and immediately after.
‘Choosing one single image from this astonishing book full of absolute bangers was, I admit, a challenge, but it had to be this one for me. There isn’t a rock fan in the world who doesn’t know this portrait, and not a music photographer alive or dead who doesn’t wish they’d shot it. To capture iconography like this, graceful, noble, bold and –…
