Jazz Images by Mike Jackson

Sep 17

Jazz Images by Mike Jackson

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All images © Mike Jackson 2007-2009

http://www.mjimagery.com

The gallery above contains a selection of images by photographer Mike Jackson. Mike's work is being exhibited this year at the Scarborough Jazz festival. According to the photographer, his current body of work is based on 'performance portraiture', a style that endeavours to capture the essence of the artist/performance in such a way that the viewer can empathically connect to the subject.

Mike Jackson was born and educated in the historic city of York and attended Canon Lee SchooI. He went on to study Graphic Design and Photography at the York College until 1982. Mike moved to Scarborough in March of 2002 with his wife and two daughters to help run the family business, a small hotel overlooking Scarborough's North Bay.

Mike Jackson

In 2006, Mike was asked to photograph the four-day free music festival 'Beached' held in Scarborough's South Bay. This oportunity rekindled his passion for photography and his love of live performance. A chance meeting with the photographer William Ellis at the 2006 Scarborough Jazz festival was to change and inspire his work photography forever.

These days, Mike is a veteran of four 'Jazz' and three 'Beached' festivals, two 'Acoustic Gatherings' and a 'Musicport' festival. For over a year, Mike has also been photographing performances at the Scarborough Jazz & Blues clubs; many of his images have appeared in the local press such as the Scarborough Evening News, to promote gigs and reviews.

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About 'Just Like Jazz'

'Just Like Jazz' is a collaborative project between Interactive Cultures, a research unit at Birmingham City University, and the Scarborough Jazz Festival. We're media academics who happen to be jazz fans and we're working with the Scarborough Jazz Festival to explore the ways in which jazz festivals can be portrayed online.

Rather than creating a brochure website around the festival, or simply filming the festival and putting that online, our goal is to capture the spirit of the festival using a range of techniques such as photography, text and handheld, personal digital video. We have given small, cheap, portable video cameras to select audience members, musicians, backstage staff and the festival organisers and asked them to capture whatever they think is interesting: the buzz of the audience, the surrounding environment, snippets of the music performed, and any discussions that take place around jazz.

The Just Like Jazz team
Left to right: Prof Tim Wall, Andrew Dubber, Dr Simon Barber, Jez Collins.

We're gathering together all of this video, photography and text from our contributors and publishing it live on this website as the festival happens. We're also tagging the content in order to experiment with the ways in which the characters and stories that are captured can be navigated by you, the visitor. This process gives audiences the opportunity to experience the festival in their own way and makes the event accessible to those who may wish to attend the festival in future years, or who may never have considered visiting a jazz festival at all.

Although we've worked on projects like this before, with Aftershock in Italy and with the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, we don't have a fixed idea of what we're going to end up with. We're working with a loose structure and quite a lot of improvisation - in a way, it's just like jazz.

Do come and say hello if you see us around. We hope you enjoy exploring the festival online with us,

Tim, Andrew, Simon and Jez.
http://interactivecultures.org