Freedom Rave by Jason Ting

29.11.2008

Once again Freedom organized another rave to follow up the other 3 parties from the Freedom Series. Upon getting the news that I would be shooting it and knowing there will be 4 of us photographers there that night, I knew it will be vastly different from the Freedom Events at Red Cap Square and Momo which i shot recently.

On reaching the location it became instantly clear the scale of the rave that Freedom has organized. In the last 2 events they brought a tiny megaphone and this time they brought one that is maybe 20 times the size for the scream your way to an IPOD stand. Besides that the photo wall was slightly different as it provided some added excitement when people emerged mysteriously from the back of the wall.

When things started to pick up boy it was busy! There was a line at the photo booth of eager people waiting their turn to take pictures. I was clicking away non stop from 9pm till about 2am and the amount of people didn’t seem to dwindle.

Everyone was enjoying themselves to the free flow of alcoholic drinks and some enjoyed it too much as the crowd became a little rowdy after 1am and there were people lying on the floor passed out everywhere.

All in all it was a really tiring shoot but super fun to see the freaked out faces of people when the “people” emerged from the wall.