Amber & Indigo - Rebelicious Magazine

Back at the beginning of February I headed back home to Birmingham to shoot some of the gorgeous pieces from the Amber & Indigo collection (all the way from Australia) with BethyKoo.

I've had to keep the photos from this shoot secret until the issue of Rebelicious Magazine that they were featured had been released, which is now! Here's a sneaky peak at the opener, but you can read the full issue here.




Big thanks to my amazing hair and make-up team Amy Murray and Heffy Wheeler.

I'll be posting more photos from the set at a later date!

2014 - A look back

As 2014 is about to come to an end and I start to plan out what I want to achieve in 2015, I thought a starting point would be to look back on what I had achieved this year, and in all honestly I have to say 2014 has been a pretty good year for my photography. I won't mention every shoot, but here's a few highlights!

Practical Photography Magazine

Firstly at the beginning of the year, having been an intern for Practical Photography magazine for just a few months, my contract was extended and I've now been working at the magazine for over a year! All of this came from doing a one-day work experience through GoThinkBig, and my role has dramatically changed since I first started - I even do a bit of writing now! I can also now finally reveal that the next issue of Practical Photography, on sale the 30th December features a video interview with the amazing Rankin, an interview which I arranged and got to go along to! Yes this was mega for me!

Rebelicious Magazine

After having some of my photos published in Rebelicious Magazine at the end of 2013, I started 2014 with my own feature Frock N Roll. The feature includes an interview with female members of rock bands and also photographs that I've taken of the artist.I also had a 6-page editorial featured in the September issue! I'll be planning more work with Rebelicious both on an editorial basis and also for Frock N Roll so if you're a model or female in a UK band and want to be featured get in touch!

 

Music Photography

Looking at what I've achieved within my music photography this year seems ABSOLUTELY MENTAL. Not only did I get to shoot my first TWO big festivals for Hit The Floor Magazine (Sonisphere and Leeds Festival), but I also won the NME Photography Awards live category. I still can't believe it to be honest and have to keep reminding myself (in a non-ego way) that it's pretty damn amazing. NME editor, Mike Williams actually said at the awards evening that my photo was "f**king amazing" and I will definitely never forget that!

 (credit Jordan Hughes /NME)

I wonder what will happen in 2015...

Frock N Roll - Escaping Vendetta

Escaping Vendetta are this month's band featured in Frock n Roll.

For this shoot I headed back home to Birmingham, to work with the lovely Klee Jane and Ren Byers. This shoot was so much fun, and we used the car park under Ren's flat to shoot in. I loved the yellow and blue sections in the car park and think the colours added a bit more vibrancy to the location. As I love my flashes and there was very little natural light I used 2 flashguns on stands, and rearranged the setups as I moved the girls.

A massive thank you to the amazing Disorder Boutique in Birmingham for lending the girls some t-shirts and dresses for this shoot. (First 8 images). The dresses are stunning! You can check out their store here.

Here's the shots and the feature in the latest issue of Rebelicious Magazine.

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Check out Escaping Vendetta's latest single!

Frock N Roll - Rebecca Need-Menear

The latest installment of 'Frock N Roll' features Rebecca Need-Menear from Anavae.

For this shoot I headed to Rebecca's hometown of London and shot around Greenwich Uni. It's an amazing location that I'd love to shoot at again. I'd definitley recommend that every photographer visits it atleast once. The day turned out to be a really, really lovely sunny day, and as there was no need to rush we had a really chilled out shoot.

For this shoot I thought I try out a new lens so borrowed a 14-24mm f/2.8. I've been wanting to use this lens for gigs so thought I see how I work with a wider lens. Here's a few behind the scenes shots taken by Lizzie on my phone.

Massive thanks to Sanctus for lending us clothing, my awesome assistant Lizzie and of course Rebecca. Here's a selection of my favourite photos from the shoot and the feature in Rebelicious.

To see the feature in Rebelicious follow the links:

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Digital Download

Print

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Frock N Roll - Kayley Busby - Follow You Home

Have you seen the latest issue of Rebelicious Magazine yet? If not read it here.

This month's 'Frock N Roll' features Kayley Busby of Follow You Home. For this one I headed up to Derby and shot in the band's practice room. Kayley was amazing to work to with and I'm super happy with these shots. A massive thank you to Alice Takes A Trip for kitting Kayley out with some clothes too! Visit their website here.

Here's a few of my favourite shots from the shoot and the opener of the feature...

All images © Jemma Dodd Photography

Frock 'n' Roll

At the end of 2013 I had some of my photographs of the lovely Scarlett Ward featured in Rebelicious Magazine, alongside an interview with myself, Scarlett and MUA Amy Murray. I'd wanted to submit to this magazine for a while, so I was mega excited when our set was selected to be featured.

After seeing the photos published, I wanted to get straight back out shooting to submit more. For a while I'd been wondering how I could combine my two main focuses within photography - music and fashion. And what better way than photographing female members of bands and getting them to talk about their style. Having suggested the idea of a feature to the awesome Dominique Marshall (editor and owner of Rebelicious) a few emails later and the idea of Frock 'n' Roll, a monthly featured was created.

So here it is my first Frock 'n' Roll feature for Rebelicious Magazine featuring one of the loveliest and most lively ladies I've worked with Jessica Calvesbert of Aurora...

As a special treat for the first feature, this month's Frock 'n' Roll also featured an interview that I did with Taylor Jardine of We Are The In Crowd...
(Note: the images in Taylor Jardine's feature were not taken by me.)

To see the full issue and read the interviews click here.

Look out for next month's issue of Rebelicious for my interview and shoot with Kayley Busby of Follow You Home!


The full set of photos from Jessica's shoot will soon be uploaded.

Rebelicious Magazine - Girls in music

Having submitted some work to Rebelicious Magazine last year, I've been in discussions with the lovely Dominique on a new feature for the magazine. We decided to take some of the best and upcoming bands and find out about the styles of their female members.

I'm super excited to be able to work with Rebelicious on this AND to get to work with some awesome talented ladies. The first shoot (and my first shoot of 2014) was with the lovely Jessica Calvesbert of Aurora Last weekend we headed over to the band's lockup and took advantage of this wonderful sofa and the band's amps.

The photos will be featured in an upcoming issue of Rebelicious magazine alongside an interview with Jess herself. Be sure to check out the magazine to see the photos first!!

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Rebelicious Magazine Feature

A few months ago I did a shoot with two lovely people that I love working with, Amy Murray and Scarlett Ward. None of these images had been seen until yesterday when we could finally announce that they were being used in the latest issue of Rebelicious Magazine!

I've been a big fan of Rebelicious Magazine since I first came across it and had always wanted to submit work to be featured. I'm still super excited that we got this feature and all had an interview featured as well.
The magazine is available to read for free online here and will be available for purchase very soon.

A massive thanks to Amy and Scarlett again for their work on this shoot and a big thanks to Dominique Marshall for featuring us!