SCOTT ARCHIBALD
Things you're
looking forward to
I look forward to a few nights of wild abandon. London is going to be alight this summer — full power after the isolation. We owe it and each other some love.
I also urgently need to swim in the ocean.
Creative process.
This year.
What changed.
Technically, I like to play with lighting and speeds. Romantically, I like a mood — a shoot that feels like a happening or an event.
A year in lockdown may have had a freeing effect on my creative process. I feel I work with more joy now, less fear. It was wonderful to create and collaborate in a homegrown style with my partner, Maggie Maurer.
Greatest
Inspirations
The Observer Effect — the act of seeing veils the true nature of reality. It almost sounds like art theory. It does sound like art theory.
Was a card. The drama, the darkness, the nerve. Light as a weapon. Trouble as a lifestyle.
The hand of God. The goal of the century. Flawed, brilliant, impossible. Peak human.
An era that rewired everything. Music, visuals, culture, consciousness. You had to be there — or maybe you didn't.
Currently scorching his slippers. Curtis dismantles the stories we tell ourselves about power, emotion, and history. A filmmaker who works the way a photographer should — making you feel before you think.
Apart from Maggie Maurer?
Greta Thunberg should be leading the UN.
The BLM collective are all heroes.
CARDI B is queen.
I urgently need
to swim in the ocean.
I work with
more joy now.
Less fear.
