120 LOVE (Collective Medium Format Street Photography & Wear)

People, Check this out.

Medium format photography just got a new face.

Here - 120 LOVE

Cool to be part of my friend Paul Del Rosario's  'medium format' Tokyo born brainchild.

Check this out as well, Yoroshiku - Mattias Westfalk

FDMM - Apocalypse in Flatted Fifth

Check this article I wrote for CVLT NATION here!! it kind of explains what I was doing in Finland and what the Finnish Death Metal Manaics Fest was all about from my perspective as the self proclaimed underground cultural attaché, photographer as well as event supporter and helper.

Here are some images I personally liked from the festival, see 'em and weep...

 Press Release

6X6 PURGATION MAYHEM 

/ Mattias Westfalk (Zine)

Swedish photographer Mattias Westfalk's photo Zine published by galeria de muerte / September 2014.

"6x6 Purgation Mayhem", a photo collection of people involved in the Tokyo underground scene.

28 page / black&white / 257x364mm

First print : 200 copies

published by : galeria de muerte 2014

artist info

www.mwcpjapan.blogspot.com

www.the35mmeye.blogspot.com

www.mattiaswestfalk.com

Retail price : 666 yen +tax

Wholesale : 400 yen  +tax

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Tokyo 110-0015 JAPAN

                                  MATTIAS WESTFALK | CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Allans House in Berlin

My friend Allan moved to Berlin from Copenhagen about a year ago. The house in the heart of Schoneberg is one of a kind. If I lived here I would never wander out, each room held a story and a mood of it's own. So uplifting and positive to have the chance to hook up with these guys in their new home and spend some time in a city that for me always has meant freedom and openminded clarity, however dark and troubled past. 

From the same trip, check out my aimless Berlin street photography on these pages :

uber-overload-aus-berlin-part-iii

berlin-overload-part-ii

berlinbesucher-part-1

At The Gates, Parte Due

Tokyo - At The Gates, the Gothenburg sound does Ebisu LiquidRoom. 

 Haven't seen ATG since their last show in May 2008 ( See link to this gig here ). Then I was lucky enough to have these images displayed as part of a real cool documentary about the band and how they become ( That blog post is here ). Last night ATG played Tokyo again after a couple of shows in Korea and China. This one being a smaller but kinda cooler venue, great sound and a ripping tight slam-dunk Gbg sound once more could be experienced for the fans. I was shooting with my old-by-now-but-still-my-new camera Canon 5D MrkII with a 16-35mm and the 580EX strobe as well as Lumix GX1 for all black&White. When I shoot digital monochrome I set the camera to B/W, then shoot with this setting only. An image that was shot in color and color only in mind will seldomw turn out very good when converted afterward. The 580EX is a tool I love working with and you guys who follow my stuff knows that when it comes to getting a loud sounding and moving mean images I like wide angled slow shutter photography with a dash of quick fill light to freeze whatever is the main element or key to get the main subject/object in there. This setting works real well on in the traffic street speed cycling as well. I have since the beginning of this year slightly shifted in ways and likes within my photography. Have started shooting primarily film again,  monochrome, both 6x6, 6x7 and 35mm. Last show with Japanese heavy weights Coffins I shot all in B&W and think this suited the mood I got from the music and what these images were representing for me that day. Funny how stuff slide towards certain points from time to time and even if the core is still intact the way around it may differ. Has to do with personal life, what and how you feel as a man and also tending to just go with your own ways and experimenting with the roots of your photographic upbringing et cetera. Anyways, this more documentary style is very rewarding as a photographer, to be able to spend time with the guys both before and after the show to see how things play out as well as for the fans to see some of the laid back and down to earth personalities the real ultra heavy metal scene is built up by. 

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