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Flamingo Flame

The black tablaeu

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Final editorial composite

I have always been a big fan or horror movies and specifically revenge movies. I was always a sunny child. For this piece, Greg Haynes, a local musical artist I had aways admired, gave me the title 'The Black Tableau' to work with and I decided on a birds eye view of this awful scenario of electrocution.

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ep cover art

I also designed the artwork for the cover of Flamingo Flames first EP. Greg (Flamingo Flame) wanted the artwork to draw heavy inspiration from album artwork popularised in the 1980's. 

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Behind the scenes

The difficulty with photographing someone in a bathtub from above without a budget is finding a room with a tub that's connected to plumbing, with enough room above the tub to shoot without using a super wide lens. In the end, I had to set up lights and the camera in my mothers guest bathroom