Published by Punch and OOM Gallery, Birmingham based photographer Pogus Caesar is releasing a book entitled ‘Musik Kinda Sweet‘, which collects his iconic photographs of black performers over the last twenty five years.
This evocative and nostalgic book captures candid snaps on the city streets, along with the contrasting vibrant energy by the stage, including photographs of Stevie Wonder, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Grace Jones and Jay-Z. All of his images were shot on 35mm black and white film, with each negative developed by hand – a far cry from today’s heavily digital performance photography.
The book launch will take place as part of Birmingham Book Festival on 15 October on 6.45pm at mac‘s Terrace Gallery.
Signed copies of the book will be available to buy via the Punch website from 16 October.
This book looks great, now that’s what I call cultural collaboration!
I’ll second that statement, earlier this year Pogus donated one of his prints for charity. Got the opportunity to chat with him, not what I expected as he was really friendly and jokey – funny how you can build totally false images of people you don’t know. Anyway I’ll be there on Friday.
Brill night at Pogus Caesar’s book launch on Friday.
Still wondering how they produced the book way under the radar – then blast!