| Peter William Hill | |
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| Born | 9 October 1981 London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Field | Portrait photography |
Peter Hill (born 9 October 1981) is a photographer and journalist who lives in London, England. He is best known for his live photography of rock bands and his work on Rocklouder.co.uk.
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Hill was born in Shoreham-by-Sea. His professional full time photography work began in 2004, working with The Ordinary Boys, whom he toured with across the UK, in an interview he stated "It got to the point where I just thought that's it, and put all my efforts into the photography. It was pretty heavy going on my credit cards for a while, but I managed to make it work and sell enough shots to just about keep my head above water. This was all in late 2004 and I haven't looked back!", since his professional beginning in 2004 he has had his work included in such publications as NME, Kerrang!, Popworld, Rolling Stone, The Independent, The Observer, Rock Sound, Music Week, The Guardian and FRONT.[1] His work has also been featured on a number of DVD's and CD sleeves including that of Enter Shikari's debut album, David Gray's live DVD Slow Motion, Do Me Bad Things single Move In Stereo, amongst others.[2]
He was involved in the creation of Rocklouder.co.uk an online music music magazine covering rock music which he currently edits, in 2009 the site expanded into a record label, also created by Peter Hill, Rocklouder Records the record label was created for the release of Welsh band Viva Machine's debut album.[3]
On his touring with various artists Peter Hill particularly with The Automatic he has documented all of their travels, in photo and video, such as the bands 'Making Of Steve McQueen' music video,[4] and many of the bands webisodes, and in 2008 Peter could also be seen at many of the bands live performances playing bass guitar in album title track This Is A Fix, during some their 2008 and 2009 touring Peter Hill also acted as a tour manager for the band.[5][6][7] He currently tour manages a number of other bands including The Noisettes and 3OH!3.
Through using Canon cameras; particularly with 24-70mm f/2.8L lenses, as well as 17-40L f/4.0 and 50mm f/1.8 he captures the energy and vibrancy of the subject he is shooting, he often uses wide crowd scenes "as this is one of the ultimate way of capturing the whole energy of a show". For editing his photographs he uses Apple Mac computers and photoshop.[2]