Sarah Frankie
Linder
On The Bright Side
Fans of live music know Sarah’s work across a wide range of regional and national outlets, including Pitchfork and BrooklynVegan, but the Austin-based Photographer’s new “On the Bright Side” collection shines a light on the high-speed art of live music photography.
Using photos taken at music festivals and venues, Linder allowed the elusiveness of a blurred, auto-focus effect to create the foundation of each image. The color of each was manipulated, while retaining selected elements of the original, resulting in a new, fresh atmosphere captured in time. By revitalizing these archived photographs in "On the Bright Side,” Linder invites the eye to explore a unique representation of the live music experience that is vibrant, curious, and thought-provoking.
“Having fulfilled my photojournalistic assignment, I realized I had a further set of images from these shows that appealed more to my personal aesthetic. Inverting the darker tones to lighter tones, as I started to build the collection, it became apparent that with this alternative process, I could communicate the visual side of the show on a more evocative and emotional level. The images remind me of the energy of the show I had seen through the lens of the photographers’ pit.”
