Portraits: The Great Escape Festival

Well The Great Escape Festival certainly brought us sunshine and good tunes when it hit Brighton this month for it’s yearly celebration of great new music. With major headline sets from the likes of Maisie Peters, Arlo Parks, and The Murder Capital - we were certainly spoilt for choice. Our photographer Richard Mukuze ran around the city centre to take a number of intimate portraits of some of our favorite artists.

Cuurls

Lake Malice

RORY

Saiming

Shelf Lives

Sun June

Whitelands

Bambie Thug

Katie Gregson-Macleod

October and The Eyes

Hallan

Human Interest

Paris Paloma

Yuke

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