The Pretenders, Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan 1982 by Blaise Hayward

An avid music fan and admirer of typography and graphic design, Hayward began making Tickets Please in March 2023 after walking by a concert hall and noticing people simply displaying a QR code on their phones to enter the show. Serendipitously, he had also just reconnected with a friend who collects concert ticket stubs. The series presents a combination of those stubs and vintage tickets he has since sourced and purchased himself.

For Hayward, the tickets represent a vanishing analog art form and a nostalgia for an iconic era of rock-n-roll. “I look at these tickets as mini works of art: the font selections, the layout, the color, the copy. All done with careful consideration to detail.” the color, the copy. All done with careful consideration to detail.” Each stub is a fragment of history-their haphazard tears and distinctive creases emblematic of what is considered the golden age of music.

These works are printed on Canson rag photographique paper. The project is ongoing.

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