Another photo from the Kevin Westenberg session https://www.instagram.com/p/C9fo5dYtf1G/

PJ HARVEY. LONDON. ENGLAND. September 27, 2000. Photo: ©Kevin Westenberg.

(...) Ending in a really funny meeting, an interview, a nipple rubbing, and an excellent final photo. (...) - photographer Johnny Riggs

It took a long time to earn enough trust, or respect, or whatever it was, so I could shoot her.

Beginning with my approach backstage in England as she's trying to get into her Jeep and drive home from Reading 1994 where I was shut down cold,

and finally ending in a sweet meeting right down the street from my house in Columbia Maryland, which ended in her rubbing my nipples 'til they were hard and allowing me some lens time.



God, how I love her music.

That first album completely blew me, and most anyone reading this probably, away.

Seeing her in that period was unearthly. Such charisma, power, talent, and yearning onstage.



I got to be in her vicinity a lot over the years, and there are a couple of songs you may have heard (including a famously-bootlegged acoustic Bob Dylan cover) where she's playing my acoustic guitar. So I have a wonderful aural document that'll live forever of her playing these brutal, amazing versions of songs on MY FUCKING GUITAR!



I had her sign lots of things over the years, but for some reason didn't even think about having her sign it. At the time she borrowed it for that session, it had signatures from Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs, everyone from Teenage Fanclub, some Archers of Loaf...

and then at one point during my fabulously glamorous addicted life, I pawned it for about 1 day's worth of dope. Never got it back.

Somewhere, hopefully someone's very happy with it.

If you read this, and you own it, I'll buy it back offa ya!



Ok, enough rambling.

Here's Polly Jean Harvey, smiling, on a temperate Spring afternoon, sometime in the 90's.

It took a fucking LOT of work to finally get her to pose for me. Sweat, worry, begging, mewling, whining, whinging, tears, sleeplessness, crying, farting, loaning guitars.
Okay, only part of that is true. There were no tears, sleeploss, or farts.

(...) Ending in a really funny meeting, an interview, a nipple rubbing, and an excellent final photo. (...) - photographer Johnny Riggs

It took a long time to earn enough trust, or respect, or whatever it was, so I could shoot her.

Beginning with my approach backstage in England as she's trying to get into her Jeep and drive home from Reading 1994 where I was shut down cold,

and finally ending in a sweet meeting right down the street from my house in Columbia Maryland, which ended in her rubbing my nipples 'til they were hard and allowing me some lens time.








source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyriggsisdead/4831863739/in/photostream/

PJ Harvey, Johnny Riggs, skyful of steps
black and white holga shot closeup up with new closeup lens she is in focus as she should be because she is 2o years my junior and looks like a hot PJ. I am old

good find, thanks for sharing

any idea who took that one? must be from 1995?

Ian Olliver
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A rare photo of the first ever Pj Harvey band gig at The Quicksilver Mail pub, Yeovil, Somerset. Not alot of people know that The PJ Harvey Band started life as a 2 piece!

PJ Harvey is born in a Dorset village in 1970 [ wrong ]. Since she was little she develops a passion for art and music

she debuts in 1991 with 2 singles. Her first album is from 1992, Dry. In 1993 she publishes "rid of me". the Rolling Stone magazine awards her with "best female author" and "best singer".

from 1995 to 2019 she publishes 8 albums ---- awards. Collaborations: Nick Cave, Tricky, John Parish, Thom Yorke, Josh Homme, Mark lanegan, Marianne Faithfull. She appears in two movies. She wrote a poetry book. she's a sculptress ( like her mum)

A peculiar talent. A polyhedral artist. Firmly avant- garde . " it's important for us, as human beings, to move to unknown grounds". " I don't wanna stay on any plan". "I think of myself more like an explorer than a music maker"