<p>Guardian/Observer staff photographer <a href="https://sarahmlee.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sarah Lee</a> first watched Dont Look Back whilst perched on a crowded bed in a Camden flat with a struggling rock combo called Coldplay. As she’s now a <a href="https://sarahmlee.com/behind-the-curtain" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BAFTA</a> photographer, Sarah checks plenty of other names in this episode, including <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/may/09/double-agents-007-elba-and-hiddleston-bond-at-the-baftas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston</a>, <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/austin-butler-and-cate-blanchett-during-the-ee-bafta-film-news-photo/1467946062" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Austin Butler and Cate Blanchett</a>. On celebrity photography: “I like having no control. I like pressure. I’m always terrified”. On Dylan album cover photography: “He knows why it works. He doesn’t need Christopher Ricks to write 4000 words on it.” We also focus our telephoto lens on Sarah’s love of Joan Baez and her admiration for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/04/my-heart-is-racing-im-terrified-cat-power-on-recreating-bob-dylans-infamous-1966-electric-gig" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cat Power’s recreation of Dylan’s 1966 gig at the Royal Albert Hall</a> (“It felt like witchcraft”).</p><p>Sarah Lee has been a photographer for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sarahlee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Guardian/Observer</a> since 2000, specialising in portraiture, features and the Arts. Her work has appeared on the covers of <a href="https://content.time.com/time/covers/europe/0,16641,20050425,00.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Time magazine</a>, Weekend and <a href="https://art8amby.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/coldplay-for-billboard-magazine-august-20th-2011/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billboard</a> as well as in Rolling Stone, The Sunday Times and Vanity Fair. Commercial clients have included <a href="http://leicagalleryla.com/gallery-view/sarah-lee/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Leica</a>, Visa, Apple and Transport for London. In 2012, she shot most of the portraits for Coldplay’s <a href="https://www.coldplay.com/release/mylo-xyloto/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MX</a> album. Sarah is a fellow of the British American Project and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. With the writer and broadcaster Laura Barton providing the introduction, her photography book <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/west-of-west/sarah-lee/laura-barton/9781783527694" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">West of West</a> was published in 2020.</p><br><p><a href="https://sarahmlee.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Website</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SarahMLee47" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp-pb_2fKTw&list=PLs7QaQ865qkopyF1GyG14LFPxMZJulA1y&index=79" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trailer</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/12j7MnQ98bCuuQplRaTTja?si=026a690278744238" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Episode playlist on Spotify</a></p><p>Listeners: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">please subscribe and/or leave a review and a rating.</a></p><p>Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/isitrollingpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@isitrollingpod</a></p><p>Recorded 21st April 2023</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
