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Lyra Holt standing in a black studio void, drifting smoke lit by one warm tungsten beam

Lyra Holt

Client
Lyra Holt
Discipline
Portrait
Year
2024
Location
The studio, Ancoats
Usage
Album, press, tour

Lyra wanted the record to look the way it sounds: one voice, a lot of dark. We used a single tungsten head, a smoke machine borrowed from a theatre, and four hours of tape. Everything on this page is from the last hour, when she stopped performing for the camera and started singing to the room.

Tight profile, her face half-lost in shadow, tungsten light on jaw and lashes
Take 31
Hands and a ribbon microphone in a pool of warm light, everything else black
The Coles, on loan
Lyra small on a stool in a wide black void, one pool of light, smoke at the beam edges
Between takes
Lyra laughing mid-take with her eyes closed
Not used on the sleeve. Should have been.
A vinyl record, blank sleeve and glass of whisky on dark boards in tungsten light
Wrap
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