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Full Name

Robert Singleton

City

East Molesey

State / Province

Surrey

Country

United Kingdom

Experience Level

Part-Time Professional

Web Site URL (must include "http://")

http://www.rockgigphotos.co.uk

MySpace or Facebook URL (must include "http://")

http://www.myspace.com/rockgigphotos

Occupation

I run an entertainment agency.

Biography

I first picked up a camera when I was eight and had learnt how to develop b&w film by the time I was ten. Over the years I learnt how to develop and print in colour and had a full colour darkroom at home until a house fire in 2004 destroyed most of the equipment. That's when I switched to digital, picking up a couple of hardly used Nikon D1x cameras from a retiring studio pro for a knock down price. In the late 70s and early 80s I was booking bands, some well known, some not so. The first band I ever booked was The Boomtown Rats in 1977 for Esher College's first ever Sixth Form Conference. At the time I booked them nobody had heard of them, but by the time they appeared at the school "Looking After Number One" had got into the top 20 and the Rats had made their first Top Of The Pops appearance. I later booked acts such as The Jam, The Police, Squeeze, Black Roots, The Pretenders, The Gang of Four, The Ramones, Punishment of Luxury, Aswad, Fischer Z, Sad Cafe, Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Tourists, Paul Young & The Q Tips, Lene Lovitch, Blondie, Hawkwind, Talking Heads, OMD, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Teardrop Explodes etc. for the Student's Union at the University of East Anglia from 1978-81. I also gave The Higsons and Capitalist Music their first ever paid gigs and helped manage Zorro, a local Norwich band, for a while. In late 2008 a girl who worked for me as a dancer invited me to a gig where she and her band were playing. I took my camera and got bitten by the live music photography bug. In that 13 or so month period I've learnt a lot (mainly through making mistakes) but know I still have much more to learn. I now work closely with two independent promoters in London, Flag Promotions and Monsta Ents, and have been commissioned by many bands to cover their gigs. I have been published in Metal Hammer and Time Out, and acts such as iMMa, Achilla, GMT and Dope Stars Inc have used my images on posters, flyers and official websites.

Equipment

2 x Nikon D90 with MB-D80 Battery Packs
Nikkor 24mm f2.8 (selling as don't need it anymore)
Sigma 30mm f1.4
Nikkor 50mm f1.8
Nikkor 85mm f1.8
Sigma 18-50mm f2.8
Sigma 28-70mm f2.8
Nikkor 80-200mm f2.8
Sigma 135-400mm f4.5/5.6
On order is a Tokina 11-16mm f2.8
Nikon SB-800 Speedlight + Gary Fong Lightsphere
Medium sized 30 year old + Billingham bag for local gigs (2 bodies, 3 lenses + flash)
HAMA Defender bag for festivals (2 bodies, all the zooms, flash etc + 12" Mac Book)

History

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2 years 2 months