Three band members in classroom, School Museum, Glasgow

Music Photography at the School Museum, Glasgow

I have my various photography portfolios on my phone, because you just never know who you might meet on a given day.

I was assigned to photograph a flat tenanted by music students and we started a conversation. I whipped my iPhone and showed them my music portfolio while mentioning how much I love doing photo shoots with musicians.

Three band members in classroom, School Museum, Glasgow — We chose the 1950’s classroom as our location. The first set up: band looking bored. From left to right: Ross, Sam and Rohan.

Three band members in classroom, School Museum, Glasgow — Second theme. Distracted and bored.

Three band members in classroom, School Museum, Glasgow — Can’t do a school photoshoot without a paper airplane fight. I’m sure these behaviours were totally out of character and that Ross, Sam and Rohan were very attentive students

Sure enough, one of the students present said he was forming a band with two other Napier University students and that there were going to look to get some promotional photos.

Drummer at the teacher's desk with other band members as students, School Museum, Glasgow — This was our second set up. Rohan, the drummer at the desk trying to knock some sense into his band mates.

Drummer at the teacher's desk with other band members as students, School Museum, Glasgow — It doesn’t appear to be working

Drummer at the teacher's desk with other band members as students, School Museum, Glasgow — I had wanted to hide behind a textbook a few times when I was a University lecturer.

Not only were Ross, Sam and Rohan a lot of fun to work with on the shoot. They are all very talented musicians. You can check Ross’ YouTube channel, Sam’s Soundcloud page and Rohan’s website.

Ross Campbell, Samuel Cracknell and Rohan Bumbra at the School Museum, Glasgow — For the third set-up we went for photos with less of a school theme (apart from the background obviously)

Ross Campbell, Samuel Cracknell and Rohan Bumbra at the School Museum, Glasgow — I really like the interaction between the band members in this photo. As far as I can tell, it reflects their different personalities quite well.

Ross Campbell, Samuel Cracknell and Rohan Bumbra at the School Museum, Glasgow — This was our last group shot.

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