Mick Rock shooting ingenue Sky Ferreira

Video: Legendary music photog Mick Rock shooting ingenue Sky Ferreira

By Claire Butler on September 7, 2011

ContentMode, the quarterly online style magazine published by stylist Deborah Ferguson, is launching its latest issue tomorrow, featuring a fashion shoot shot by legendary music photographer Mick Rock. The subject: Pixie-faced Sky Ferreira, the L.A.-bred singer, musician and up-and-coming fashion muse.

The fashion-forward mag captured the magic with this great mini-film that includes interviews with Rock and Ferreira. Good stuff.

As seen in The Spell

Contentmode – Sky Ferreira and Mick Rock from DreamPlay Productions on Vimeo.

For my sins in a former life, I’ve been forced to spend an inordinate amount of time with musicians in this life. Of course, I love them.

A camera is a wonderful ally. It requires minimal maintenance and provides entry to a world of endless imagery.

My ambition was not to be a great photographer (though that certainly would have been a worthy stance). It was a lust to embrace anything that startled or energized me.

I am not in the business of documenting or revealing personalities. I am in the business of freezing shadows and bottling auras.

Without the rock ‘n rollers, I would not have developed as an image man.

You want to shock people with a bit of mystery and beauty. That’s my favorite kind of shocking.

I’ve never felt like a voyeur, although I’ve certainly done plenty of looking!

There’s an art to looking back - how to celebrate the past without being entrapped by it. Photographs provide the great physical link.

My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn’t owned by a magazine or a record label.

I smell pictures more than I see them and I hear pictures more than I can smell them. It’s very habit forming.