{"id":751234,"date":"2026-08-27T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751234\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:58:11","slug":"blur-drummer-david-rowntree-gives-pupils-insight-into-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751234\/","title":{"rendered":"Blur drummer David Rowntree gives pupils insight into photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blur drummer Dave Rowntree gave primary school children an insight into his love of photography when his photography exhibition was held in Brighton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rowntree taught the children about traditional methods of photography and how to develop pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He started taking photographs at the start of the band&#8217;s career as he believed Blur wouldn&#8217;t be that successful and he wanted to document their journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One child, who had been hearing from Rowntree on how to take and develop images, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s really cool&#8221; but it &#8220;takes longer&#8221; than expected to see the finished product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It must be really exciting when it comes out,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another child, referring to Rowntree&#8217;s camera, said: &#8220;I&#8217;d use it lots of times if I was patient, but I&#8217;m just like 1% patient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rowntree said: &#8220;Indie music was incredibly unfashionable, and so I thought: &#8216;We&#8217;re only going to get 15 minutes of fame. I want to remember every second of the 15 minutes.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After growing popular, he stopped taking photos before returning to capture the band in a different phase in their career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blur drummer Dave Rowntree gave primary school children an insight into his love of photography when his photography&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}