Denmark Street

Portraits before the albumLondon

An album begins before anyone presses play. These portraits were made for a musician ahead of its release, on a street already crowded with other people’s music history. She is not borrowing Denmark Street’s mythology. She walks through it as someone about to add her own.

Musician in a leather jacket and black hat standing in a London street, a red double-decker bus behind her

Musician in a leather jacket in front of an astronomical clock shop window

Woman with a leather rucksack glancing back against a dark blue wall

Woman at a guitar-shop grille, hand at her cheek, yellow guitars behind

Musician holding her hat brim on a London street, black cab passing behind

Black and white close portrait under a hat brim, eyes straight into the lens

Close portrait under a black hat, jaw set, guitar-street windows behind

Close portrait of a musician in a wide black hat and leather jacket, looking level into the lens

Close portrait of a curly-haired woman, bare-faced, city blur behind her

Woman lifting her black hat by the crown, ringed fingers, curls loose

Very close portrait, stray curls across a pale face, dark eyes level

Woman applying red lipstick into a pocket mirror on a lamplit street

Musician standing in front of a guitar shop window lit by a chandelier

Portrait in a black hat with a stray curl across the cheek, jacket collar up

Musician in a hat against a dark red wall, lipstick run down from her lip

Face half-hidden under a hat brim in green streetlight, red lips catching the glow

Musician in a leather jacket and hat standing before an astronomical clock shopfront

Very close portrait with red lipstick smeared across the cheek, fingers at the mouth

Woman carrying a black hat walks past guitar shops on Denmark Street, London

Musician with smeared red lips in front of a red London bus, hat tilted

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