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INDIE / SEEN
THE INDIE ROCK PHOTOGRAPHY OF PIPER FERGUSON
BY PIPER FERGUSON • FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARR
Featuring photos of Beck, Modest Mouse, Interpol, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers, Kim Gordon, Richard Ashcroft, Juliette Lewis, The Black Keys and more
Take a visual trip through indie rock with this stunning photography collection jam packed with intimate snapshots, late night club gigs, and exclusive portraits by renowned music photographer Piper Ferguson.
Indie, Seen (Weldon Owen; November 7, 2023) is the timely journey through the alternative music scene via the lens of music photographer Piper Ferguson. Beginning her career in the late 1990s as a woman photographer in a once male-dominated field, Piper is known for telling dynamic and intimate stories from behind her lens. The results are beautiful, enthralling, and truly original photographs.
Indie, Seen presents Piper’s most personal and exclusive works curated in one volume, from her first portrait sessions with artists like Joe Strummer and Richard Ashcroft, to festival performances, behind-the-scenes photoshoots, editorial portrait sessions, and wild nights out.
Enjoy vibrant images of iconic indie rock performers, such as Interpol, The Strokes, Coldplay, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. With more than 200 images, Indie, Seen is a must-have for every rock and music history fan to indulge and explore the moments behind the music.
She was there—now you can be, too.
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“Piper’s work is about the moments. The moments happen and she can make a moment, and no matter where or what’s happening, she always manages to fit in like one of the band. That’s uncommon, and one of the reasons why you see what you see in the pictures.”
AUTHOR BIO
Piper Ferguson’s work is defined by an electric relationship between high style and pure spontaneity. A Northern California native living in Los Angeles for two decades, she has been photographing musicians for twenty-five years, finding unique ways to capture the energy and essence of whoever is in front of her camera.
Piper’s photographic journey began with her Brit pop club Cafe Bleu in Hollywood, where she booked the acts and documented every artist who stepped onto the stage. Beyond the vast array of indie musicians in her book, she has also photographed legends such as David Crosby, Merle Haggard, and Billy Idol, and pop stars like Usher and Haim.
Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Filter, Mojo, and FLOOD magazines, and many other publications. She has directed several music videos for artists including Josie Cotton, Hepcat, Placebo, Radio 4, and Rita Coolidge.
Piper originally came to Los Angeles in 1995 to work in the film industry, and in 2020, she and her husband, Will Dearborn, formed the production company Noonday Underground to produce and direct their own projects. They are currently developing two narrative feature films, and Piper is also working on a documentary passion project that looks at the early indie scene through the lens of memoir and personal discovery.
She lives in La Cañada, just north of Los Angeles, with her family and two dogs, Joey and Little Guy. They hike to a tipi regularly and still go out to see as many shows and concerts as humanly possible.
“Originally I planned to do something that was my ‘best of’ photos, everyone from Tom Petty to Merle Haggard to Billy Idol. But then during the pandemic I worked with Pulse films, sending my photos and video footage for Meet Me in the Bathroom. I spent months going through my images, watching and digitizing hours and hours of old tapes I’d shot.
Then, with so many indie bands doing reunion tours, anniversaries, and festivals together, the 20-year mark of that time (which feels like it went by in a heartbeat) felt like a good time to explore a project of my own. My entire book isn’t all from the early oughts, but a good portion of it is.
I hope this book means something to people who were/are part of the scene, the movement, and didn’t give up on what we love. With so much disappointing news [these days], I would love for this book to be something to encourage people to take a time-out and remember the crazy nights dancing at clubs and festivals to these artists as something to be celebrated from now til forever.”
INDIE/SEEN PRESS
Photographer Piper Ferguson’s ‘Moments’ Define the History of Alt Rock
The Strokes, Amy Winehouse, Killers, More Get Star Treatment in Piper Ferguson’s ‘Indie/Seen’ Photo Book
Rock Photographer on Capturing Amy Winehouse on Stage at Coachella: 'She Seemed So Vulnerable'
Capturing the wild days of early-2000s indie rock
A Look Back at Music’s Burgeoning ‘Indie/Seen’ Era
Shots of Sound: Photographs of the Indie Revolution
Piper Ferguson Announces New Indie Rock Photo Book
Britpop and the Music Photography Of Piper Ferguson
An Interview with Piper Ferguson