TEN - A Decade In Images
Best known as a rock photographer, it will come as a surprise to many that renown snapper, Nick Elliott, will be launching a photographic collection that will become a guide to the last ten years of the Cambridge Folk Festival at the festival this year.
It will come as significantly less of a surprise to his fellow pit ponies (as the regular Cambridge Folk Festival photographers are known) who have stood camera to camera with Nick merrily shooting away at the artists over that period.
Indeed I first met Nick hanging around outside the media caravan at Cambridge waiting to be lead down to the main stage for the obligatory first three songs, no flash, more years back than I care to remember. For a number of year's Nick was one of the Fatea team putting in the hours rushing around the site making sure we got absolutely everything we needed and then some.
"TEN - A Decade In Images" is celebration of the artists that have fallen under Nick's lens during those years. As Nick himself says, "Having worked the Cambridge Folk Festival for over ten years, I count some of the images I have taken there to be amongst my best work and wanted to celebrate that fact with this book."
The Co-operative Cambridge Folk Festival is renowned for its eclectic mix of music and a wide definition of what might be considered folk. The best traditional folk artists from the UK and Ireland rub shoulders with more contemporary acts, the finest American country, blues and roots artists, acclaimed singer songwriters and even the odd pop star, Nick has captured them all.
Neil Jones(aka Jonesy), Marketing manager at Cambridge City Council, comments, "This book will take you as close as you can to the action, across an entire decade, celebrating some of the most-loved musicians from around the globe."
"TEN - A Decade In Images" is a collection of the very best photographs Nick has captured over the years at the festival, one of the longest running and most famous folk festivals in the world, with many images never seen before.
The book it's self(published by Rufus Stone Ltd Editions) comes in two editions, a standard edition(1000 copies) costing £40 with a choice of covers, Robert Plant or Joan Baez and an extended Hardcase edition limited to just 200 signed copies at £175, complete with their own flight case.
The book will be launched at this year's Cambridge Folk Festival and Nick will be there to sign copies, for more information about how to order in advance, go to www.rslimitededitions.com/cambridgefolkfes.html
Neil King