SoundZ - photographs of musicians - © Lloyd Godman

Artist Journal - Information - Lloyd Godman - SoundZ

From 1969-73 I photographed many live acts performing in New Zealand - Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath to name a few.

Unfortunately, many of the best images that I took were never returned by promoters, publishers and agents - the images on this site are a few of the remaining images in my archive. In the late 1990s one of my students discovered I had this archive and suggested I should put some of this material on line for others to enjoy.

While the highest rating of colour film at this time was 100 ISO, the images I shot in this period with 35mm transparency film rate as high as 860 ISO and pushed processed or 1800 ISO and cross processed. Many of the image were shot on a Nikkormat with a f2.8 - 135mm lens.

Since 2005 I have begun to shot more material mainly at Womad with a 13 mega pixel digital camera to add to this archive.

This image is from within the inflated tunnel in the restricted area for bands etc. out the back at the Ngaruawahia Music Festival - 1973 - It was a place where performers etc could chill out - while I was walking through the tunnel I met these two naked in the tunnel. Ngaruawahia was a fairly wild time, but it was also a time when my consciousness of good organic vegetarian food and the environmental movement was fueled further.