What can I say, Movement 2024 was one for the books.
Movement is undoubtedly one of the best electronic music festivals in the entire world. As a photographer, I am often conflicted about how to best cover events of such magnitude. You can never shoot every set that you want, there’s always something that you’ll miss, and for someone like me, my trusty Nikon D5300 can’t stack up to some of the rigs that other photographers are using. On top of that, one of my SD cards somehow got corrupted, so I am left to work with what I could scrounge up from my backup.
So let’s just say that I will admit, these aren’t my best photos. But I still do believe that they represent some of the best aspects of the experience at Movement 2024. Some of them conjure specific moments, but mostly these images capture the floating ambiguity of a crowd lost in the music, regardless of who is playing or what stage they are on. In this way, I might suggest that my photo review this year (by circumstance, but also in some ways by revisionist intention), is an abstract representation of the beautiful experience that is a week-long journey into the heart of a genre of music that was born in a city that some of us are lucky enough to call home.
