Reflections of a Music Photographer is a new, visually stunning exhibition from Adrian Boot - one of the UK's best-known music photographers.

The exhibition spans Adrian's thirty-five year career and includes some of his legendary photographs as well as many previously unseen images.

A reflection rather than a retrospective, the exhibition is extensively captioned, giving true meaning to the images and the context in which they were taken. The stories told are revealing, informative, poignant, sad, sexy, humorous and macabre, and provide another perspective of the fleeting moments of reality represented by the images.

Through the exhibition, Adrian shows us how perceptions of famous identities can be misleading, and how the camera glimpses but does not always show their true nature. There are rare photographs of Marley relaxing at the height of the messiah mania that surrounded his life; photographs of Marvin Gay and his son which barely mask the drug induced bleakness of the situation; and shots of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates in the throws of an argument.

The exhibition also considers how the meaning of images changes over time - such as a completely innocent 1979 publicity photograph of Pete Townsend and a schoolgirl walking hand-in-hand in Hyde Park - and explains why some of the photographs in the collection were never previously exhibited or published.

This intriguing and revealing exhibition contains over 70 colour and black and white framed photographic images. It is available for touring from August 2006.

Adrian Boot: Reflections of a Photographer is produced by Adrian Boot and
Shelley Warren, ExhibitZ London

To find out more about Adrian Boot: Reflections of a Photographer or make a booking, please contact Fiona Drury at Write Angle on 61-3 9534 3101 or by email to fiona@writeangle.com.au

About Adrian Boot

Adrian Boot is one of Britain's best-known music photographers. His exhibitions have toured worldwide including in Australia and New Zealand, where Jimi Hendrix Exhibition (1991-2), Bob Marley Exhibition (1994), Punkulture Exhibition (1997), and ReggaeXplosion Exhibition (2001-2) broke venue attendance records and attracted widespread media coverage and acclaim.

Adrian's books include Babylon on a Thin Wire and Jah Revenge (both with Michael Thomas). With collaborator and friend Chris Salewicz: Bob Marley - Songs of Freedom; Firefly - Noel Coward in Jamaica; Midnights in Moscow - in the USSR with Billy Bragg; Punkulture - History of a Music Revolution and ReggaeXplosion: The Story of Jamaican Music. Adrian has also worked for the EPE organisation at Graceland Memphis on the Elvis Presley photo archive.

Adrian left university in 1970 and moved to Jamaica to teach physics, returning to Britain to freelance for the NME, Melody Maker, The Times, The Guardian, and The Face. By the mid-1970's Adrian had become staff photographer for The Melody Maker. Moving on, Adrian has been chief photographer for Live Aid; for Nelson Mandela - Freedom at 70; for Roger Water's The Wall in Berlin; for Greenpeace in the Soviet Union. Adrian has also worked with ORBIS, the flying eye hospital, in Africa; the British Council in Iraq and Jordan; for the Grateful Dead in Egypt and for Island Records in Jamaica, Colombia, Algeria, Nigeria and many other parts of the world.

Over the last ten years, Adrian has become more involved in the fusion of computer technology, photography, film, DVD and internet technology and has worked closely with Palm Pictures on various DVD, Internet, Film, and CDR projects. Today Adrian Boot works with Palm Pictures on various film, video and photographic projects in Africa, South America and Jamaica, including the ReggaeXplosion gallery in Jamaica.