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Informal Photograph Session With Artist Roger Dean

Richard Haines — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:34:52 +0000

Roger Dean is an English artist, designer, architect, and publisher. He is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in the late 1960s. The covers often feature exotic,fantasy landscapes. His work has sold more than sixty million copies world-wide.

He is possibly best known for his Yes band album covers. Here are some examples of his work:

Roger kindly agreed to an informal photo session in his studio in Lewes and here are some of the results….

Roger Dean – Studio 3

Roger Dean – Studio 2

Roger Dean – Studio 1

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Photo Session with Steve Hackett of Genesis in His Studio

Richard Haines — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:57:22 +0000

When I put on an exhibition of the Genesis photographs at Trading Boundaries last year to coincide with the Steve Hackett unplugged concert being held there, I got the opportunity to meet Steve again – after 37 years!

I asked Steve if I could take some candid photographs of him at work in his studio, either recording or rehearsing. Steve kindly agreed despite having a really hectic schedule of writing his own music, recording and producing Genesis Revisited II, an excellent double album, as well as guesting on other musicians recordings and extra live gigs.

So just before Christmas I visited Steve and his wife Jo at Steve’s studio in Twickenham and took some photographs of Steve – here are some of them….

Steve Hackett – Studio 1

Steve Hackett – Studio 2

Steve Hackett – Studio 3

More of the photographs from this session will be added to www.GenesisPictures.co.uk website soon

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Steve Hackett Acoustic Concert and Genesis Pictures Exhibition – Together at Trading Boundaries

Richard Haines — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:01:15 +0000

The exhibition of the Genesis Pictures I took in the 70s were on show at Trading Boundaries last week culminating in it coinciding with the Steve Hackett concert on the evening of Saturday 30th June.

Trading Boundaries was packed with Steve Hackett (and Genesis) fans who all enjoyed a brilliant evening of music. Steve had his nylon strung classical guitar for the evening, not his more usual famous Les Paul electric guitar.

Steve was accompanied by the hugely talented Rob Townsend on flute and saxophone as well as his brilliant jazz solo on a penny-whistle!

Roger King supplied great keyboards and the trio played a wide selection of music from Steve’s albums as well as some of the gorgeous melodic compositions he co-wrote with Genesis.

After almost two hours of music,Steve stayed afterwards and spent almost an hour talking to people from the audience, many of whom had travelled considerable distances to see the concert.

I met lots of people from the audience before and after the concert who were fascinated with the Genesis pictures that they’d never seen before and shared Genesis stories and my experience of taking the photographs of Steve Hackett and the other members of Genesis while they were rehearsing and recording The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in July 1974 – a mere 38 years ago!
For lots more exclusive Genesis Pictures see www.GenesisPictures.co.uk
For more information about Steve Hackett see www.HackettSongs.com

One of the areas of Trading Boundaries where the Genesis Pictures exhibition was held

All photographs on this post taken by Richard Haines

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