Don’t You Want To Be Free?
"When I'm on my own, I'm lost in space, my freedom's a delusion" Teenage Fanclub, Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From
Don't You Want to be Free? is an art project by British photographer Johnny Green, shot between 2008 and 2012. The work investigates notions of freedom and the ties that connect us with others, as well as exploring our own individual, collective and social consciousness.
Don't You Want to be Free? (Remix 2015) by Johnny Green (47'11)
The film was produced in 2013 and remixed in 2015 by Johnny Green & Fabiola Simonetti. All music copyright lies with the song's creator(s) or third parties.
Johnny Green is a photographer from Leicester, based in London. He retains the copyright to most of the photographs in Don't You Want to be Free? except for some owned by the Press Association.
Don't You Want to be Free? is Green's third major body of work, adding to Those eyes are enough to take this heart of mine (2007) and God knows how I adore life (2008).
A pop-up gallery, J. Green & Son, opened in Bloomsbury, central London, in 2010/11 with a retrospective of his career to date entitled It has often been my dream, which also became Green's first international show in spring 2012 at Trementina Artes in Bogota, Colombia. More recently his work has appeared in an exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan in 2014.
In November 2012, his series of 20 photographs exploring questions of identity and belonging were included in Tracey Moberly's LABEL special event at Tate Britain, London.
Green has also given talks at Leicester College in 2014 and at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2015.
Transience is the latest work by Johnny Green and again the film was mixed with Fabiola Simonetti in Spain in May and June of 2015. Work has now been completed on a photo book for Transience, with the launch date expected by the summer of 2017.
Cat Power - Babydoll / Johnny Green - Don't You Want to be Free? (Remix 2015) 1/10
All music copyright lies with the song's creator(s) or third parties.