Photographer Jason Unrau does a lot of waiting at gigs. He glues his eye to the camera and anticipates the moment when it all comes together. If it does, he can create a picture which, as he likes to put it, "has sound."
Often it simply doesn't and he spends the entire set waiting for a pre-imagined scenario only to go home with an unused roll of film. On other occasions everything is right and he comes out with a classic.
"I like the way some Continental Europeans stalk about, making a picture," he says. "I think there's something in that." Like the rest of the Chain-Whipped fanzine team, Unrau isn't interested in hanging out backstage. That means seeing musicians for what they are -- ordinary folk. He prefers to remain starstruck, over-awed by their stage presence; it allows him to capture the drama of their performances in his shots and endow the artists and the zine with a larger-than-life personality.