{"id":2842,"date":"2013-12-12T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qgp.ykq.mybluehost.me\/cinephiled\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2013-12-13T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:56:50","slug":"julian-lennon-set-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinephiled.com\/julian-lennon-set-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Lennon’s New Gig: Set Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rankin_JL_01_Color\"<\/a>Julian Lennon is known for his music — his excellent new studio album — and first since 1998 — ‘Everything Changes,’ is out now, along with a newly issued DVD documentary, video and acoustic tracks package called ‘Through The Picture Window’ — but many people do not know that he is also a burgeoning photographer<\/a> with a growing portfolio. He has shot many striking landscape and portrait images, and he recently began a new side career as a set photographer working on a film where people did not knew who he was. That is a humble way to reinvent oneself. But Lennon is a mature, down-to-earth individual who relishes the chance to challenge himself. He spoke to Cinephiled \u00a0about his photographic passion\u00a0prior to the release of his DVD.<\/p>\n

Bryan Reesman: I presume this new documentary goes beyond the standard questions people have?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Julian Lennon:<\/strong> I think what was more important was not to have necessarily specific answers given, but just a greater general understanding, and I think that indicates where one’s head is at these days as opposed to where it might have been 20 years ago. I believe there are things that should remain private, that shouldn’t be discussed, that are my thoughts and my thoughts alone. With the lyrics on the album and the documentary, this is a way of putting it out there and putting on the table and going, “That’s me, take or leave it. There we go.” And on.<\/p>\n

BR: You got the opportunity to photograph U2 in the studio, but I really love the photos of Ch\u00e2teau Lacoste<\/a>.
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\nJL:<\/strong> Thank you. I literally haven’t had time to work on the website or the collections because I’ve been shooting stills on a film all summer. It was something else. It’s a film called ‘Price of Desire’ that is about probably the first female modernist designer and architect the world ever saw, a woman called Eileen Gray, and it’s an incredible story, little known, about her. I’ve known about a relationship she had with a French architect called Le Corbusier, who was renowned and had a state funeral when he died, but he actually stole the credit for a lot of her work, and this film tries to set her life story and many of the stories about that straight. Although it’s a bio, it’s being shot in a very artistic, indie, foreign film way, but stylistically it’s incredibly beautiful. I was brought on board not just to shoot regular stills but artistic stills that will eventually become a book, box set and an exhibition in its own right about Eileen Gray, which is phenomenal. Working on a film set for the first time was a real experience. It was in Europe, and I swear on my life that none of the people who were on the film set knew who I was. I kid you not, so I was being shoved and kicked around and out-of-the-way left, right and center, and it was the first time I’d been in that position for a long, long time, but let me tell you it was a good reminder of where you have to come from to succeed. There was a lot of hard work involved in making this project work and work beautifully and proving yourself to the other people that you’re working with. It was almost like a new beginning for me and a great experience. I guess onwards and upwards with all of that really.<\/p>\n