Destroyed: Moby's first photography book [video interview]

Not really comparable

It may be easier to get a photobook deal than getting a record deal but at the same time it's much easier to get rich with a record deal than with a photobook deal.

Low note

Well done BJP for having the fire place sticking out of Moby's head on every shot. A great advertisement for photographic craft from the industry's leading magazine.

Naive Photography

Don't give up your day job, mate. You've got that fantastic flat in New York from which you could take some truly cool, and unique images, and yet you give us this naive, newbie rubbish. If fact, just thinking about it, your music is also quite watered down just like these images. What happened to you dude, you used to be a PUNK?!!!

Stick to the music

I like Moby's music, so it was with great interest that i looked at his photos, they are as dull as his music is interesting. Really average if not worse.
Very disappointing.
Nail on the head, was Musician wants to be something else, keep looking

Stick to the music

I like Moby's music, so it was with great interest that i looked at his photos, they are as dull as his music is interesting. Really average if not worse.
Very disappointing.
Nail on the head, was Musician wants to be something else, keep looking

Good idea

A great idea to release a book of photos with the album. The photos might be abstracts, but at least there are no photos of tranvestites shooting up,etc, and overall a good idea and he should do it again.

Off theme photos

He is in the best possible position to photograph a Moby tour, but instead he has teased us with the unmemorable aspects - the road tunnel, a corridor here, an airplane window there. My favorite photos are ones which are on theme - the crowd and TV studio photos.

Moby's a photographer ?

Moby is not a photographer who is launching a photo-book, he's a musician selling a new cd.
This photo-book is a great way to launch & sell his cd as he explains in the interview... " People don't buy music CDs anymore, musicians have to find new ways to connect.. blah blah... did I mention my cd comes with my photo-book?"
If you previously paid for his music why wouldn't you buy this book to get his album ?
Some may feel his photographic offering would have been stronger if he wasn't 'giving away' his new album with it. It's a good day for the music industry but not necessarily so for the photographic one.
I could be wrong, the photographic project could be the main focus of his energy and the music is the afterthought, I haven't heard the album.
His photo's are good, his music is good but his marketing skills are amazing.

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amped when i saw the cover, but i hate to say it, the rest of his stuff is pretty boring, and boring in a bad way, not boring in the good way, no context or even a hint of narrative. just my opinion though i guess.

thumbs up

Love the photos, he maybe in the postion to take the best photos of the tours he does, but to me it appears he photographs what he sees the mundane everyday, passing moments. He photographs what he sees the most of, airports, hotels, corridors. Love it

Shame

Such a shame the idea of an interview on film becomes such a mess. Just goes to show that even with all the technology of DSLR cameras being able to capture video, it doesn't mean you can become a film maker. I am now using this film on how not to conduct an interview.

Bitter

Destroyed? It should be... Looks like the work of every gap year student I've ever met. Damn right I'm bitter... With justification I'd say...

Cameraman

Next time bring a real cameraman please?
Unbelievable....

Plain and Pretentious

Plain and Pretentious. Like a photography student trying to impress. If one of my students handed this in, they would get a very bad review. It's way too easy to mix strange snapshots from life randomly together and call it art.

amazed

I'm really amazed by the comments. These photos look great to me. Perhaps I'm not as talented a photographer as all of the people leaving negative comments?

Fascinating.

Boring? Really? Maybe if random Joe took a bunch of pictures of empty tunnels. But thematically there's a sense of loneliness, sterile scenes with no people, contrasted with the crowds. I'd say it resonates well even with older Moby music like the Heat album. It's fascinating if it journals his life, the contrast between the empty hotel hallways and the packed concerts. I wonder what his life is really like.

Sounds like sour grapes to me...

From an non-professional photographer & artist, I like Moby's photos a lot! He is very brave to put himself out there and it's a brilliant concept to link his separate interests in one theme.

I'm also surprised by the negative comments - especially a photo instructor that sounds close-minded. Genuine critiques meant to help improve an idea or technique are great, but there's nothing wrong with 'simple' everyday images!