lightroom Archives - Tom Munday

David Bowie: You’re Not Alone

There are great projects and then there are dream projects. David Bowie: You’re Not Alone at Lightroom definitely falls into the latter.

Working with a brilliant team from 59 Studio, I had the humungous privilege of creating several different chapters for this show, concentrating mainly on the Creative Curiosity and Characters sections.

Using a variety of techniques, these largely leant on a tactile aesthetic: paper weaves, flip books, Bowie paper puppets, stop motion glitter and flying books. There’s also a tromp l’oeil journey through an art gallery and a collaged Bromley of the 1950s and then 70s, and even a trip to Bowie’s childhood bedroom (with my kids hiding under the duvet there).

But the star of the show is always Bowie, whether photographed by Brian Duffy or Terry O’Neill, or captured for the Dick Cavett show looking deathly thin but still belting out the finest version of Young Americans, he remains completely magnetic.

Might be a few Easter Eggs in there too – wonder how many people have spotted the laughing gnome yet?

Moonwalkers with Tom Hanks

Working for 59 Studio, this was a Lightroom production co-written by Tom Hanks and Christopher Riley telling the story of those who have stood on the moon.

Towering 12 metres high and with fully immersive projection, Lightroom is the perfect place to get the scale of all this across. My work was largely concentrated in the opening ten minutes of the show, from JFK’s speech in 1962, through NASA’s incredible engineering in the following years, to the launch of Apollo 11 in 1969. It was an honour to get to work with this team and the original NASA footage to create a celebration of the still unbelievable achievement of getting mankind to the moon.