Photo series: LGW24 artist portraits by Melanie Marsman & Juri Hiensch

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At Le Guess Who? 2024, residential photographers Melanie Marsman and Juri Hiensch captured a stunning series of artist portraits surrounding their performances at the festival.

Part of the series features, among others, Ghanaian-French producer and vocalist PÖ and musician, producer and composer Jowee Omicil, who both performed as part of Chromesthesia, a 13-hour durational performance that tracks Afro-diasporic rhythms and explores the history that undergirds Afro-descendant electronic music.

"All the way from Haiti via Montreal, Jowee Omicil brings the found sound of Port-au-Prince and a rumba-like beat. “Freedom is at the door,” he tells us. “Grasp it.”" - MOJO

PÖ and Jowee Omicil by Juri Hiensch

Japanese psych-rock band Bo Ningen, who returned to the festival both as a curator and performer. Their curation was dedicated to representing the Bo Ningen community, with lots of collaborative projects and with a strong focus on audiovisual performances.

"What were the stories from Le Guess Who?’s 2024 edition? One is that Bo Ningen, one of this edition’s curating acts, are one of the most interesting and powerful bands on the planet. Over the weekend they fused sound and vision in three remarkable shows, each different and surprising, and often spectacular." - Louder Than War

This is a black-and-white portrait of Bo Ningen. The faces of the four band members are partially overlapped, blending into each other.
Bo Ningen by Melanie Marsman

And musician and poet Elias Rønnenfelt, who presented his first solo album after 16 years as frontman of Danish band Iceage, and hybrid artist Natisa Exocé Kasongo, who created all choreography for Chromesthesia.

Elias Rønnenfelt and Natisa Exocé Kasongo by Melanie Marsman & Juri Hiensch