✮ ABOUT ✮
Jade Connor is a multi-stylistic concert, concept portrait and editorial photographer working in London, Brighton and surrounding areas.
Primarily revelling in capturing the chaos of performance in concert photography, Jade utilises brushstrokes of light, harsh overexposure and visceral editing practices to curate an ethereal tenor to her work.
At my first concert, I felt enveloped. Pressed against bodies I had queued with all day in the hopes of getting a spot at the barrier, and seeing both my Mom and my friends flown over the crowd to escape the crush left me not alone, but in my element.
I came away from that concert with pictures on my phone. I had spent hours tuning them on my rudimentary gallery app. The silhouettes and the stage design striking up against the forms of the band, all caressed in illuminated smoke. Only recently have I been truly realising that taking pictures might be what I am supposed to do.
Even in the earlier years of my twenty-two, I was always brought to the lens. Infamously adoring being both in limelight and pressed up against the viewfinder, it is fascinating to me that like many life-defining realisations I have been having in the past few years, I am only recently finding myself learning a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of photography.
Leaning as far as I can into this, I aim for my photography to help me experiment with the relationship I have to myself and others. In testament to this, my photography so far has been pivotally collaborative and intentionally melodramatic : blown out portraiture, mastubatory stylistic choices and a (hopefully) short-lived obsession with the bowl of a fisheye lens.
It is an unequivocally uncertain time to be an aspiring creative. However, through these first few years of practicing, I am basking in the heat it has given me. I hope that newfound softness I am showing myself reflects to you in my work.
