By Lina Bhambhani
Photographer, Francesca Allen was given the opportunity to do a photo series of some London-based female artist who many have not recognized. Allen is part of a series called “Snap Judgement” where they gave Allen a Huawai P9 to shoot as she pleased and she chose to work with EE in recognition of Women in Music.
“A few months ago I was looking for a girl band to play a show I was helping to organise, and that turned out to be a lot harder than I thought,” stated Allen to noisey.vice.com. “I reached out to a few record labels, and sadly they were a bit embarrassed about how few female groups they represented.”
It is still astonishing on how the music industry, internationally and nationally, are typically male dominated today. Though we believe we have overcome the gender’s generation of equality, it seems like the music industry is still not up-to-date yet. Allen took up this opportunity with EE to celebrate the focus of women in the music industry, who she felt were breaking the music industry barriers for women.
Some of the bands and artists Allen worked were Dream Wife, an English-Icelandic three piece girl band, Yaya Bones, who is a recent graduate from Central Saint Martins within the medium of music and visual arts, and Eleanor Hardwick, who is also a photographer, visual artists, musician and DJ.
ELEANOR HARDWICK
YAYA BONES
DREAMWIFE
Images by Francesca Allen
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