The famous musician photographing a life of rock'n'roll:
. Watching black-and-white films by François Truffaut, Federico Fellini and Jean-Luc Godard, Andy not only saw a world far beyond small-town England — he discovered a way of seeing all its own."When I was 16, I wanted to be a film director," he says."Of course, my circumstances growing up, it didn't seem like much of a possibility. I was so passionate about being a guitarist that it never occurred to me to go to film school in London.
But the forces of fate have a curious way of coming full circle with the passage of time. With a new exhibition, at the Ernst Leitz Museum and a one-man multimedia concert series at Leica, both in Wetzlar, Germany, Andy explores the cinematic qualities of his work. For the concert series, which tours Europe this fall, Andy will perform live alongside a number of self-directed videos that feature his surreal images morphing, drifting, floating, and melting into each another.
While touring the US with The Police over the years, Andy used photography to navigate the curious extremes of American life."Our eyes were filled with the fading industrial cities, the unbound and unceasing road, the black ribbon of an airstrip, the prairies vanishing between cumulus, the viperous Everglades, the deathless Mississippi, and the payola man in the corner of a seedy bar with hookers, booze and cocaine," he writes in the 2019 monograph, .
When the band dissolved in 1984, Andy faced what he describes in his book as"a psychological black hole where the reality and intensity of a life so full was suddenly torn away, and you had to make a fantastic and painful adjustment to new strange conditions — like everyday life." Blessed with his own vision, Andy continued forth as a solo artist while the legacy of the Police took on a life of its own.
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