Photo Photography

Category: Music Photographers

  • Todd Owyoung

    Todd Owyoung

    Todd Owyoung is a freelance photographer based in St. Louis specializing in live music photography and band portraits. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis magna cum laude with a BFA in Visual Communications. Throughout the year, on average, Owyoung photographs four to six bands a week and drinks tea everyday.

    His work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, the New York Times, SPIN, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Alternative Press, The Wallstreet Journal, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice and Harper’s Bazaar. From sold out stadium shows to smoky basement gigs, compelling band portraits, or creative for a national campaign, if it rocks and rolls, Todd Owyoung can photograph it.

  • Joseph Cultice

    Joseph Cultice

    Describing himself as a rockstar photographer with a minors in actors and fashion, Joseph Cultice has been a leading name in the world of music photography. After graduating from ASU in his home town of Phoenix, Arizona in 1990, he moved to New York City. His career was given an almost immediate kickstart when he began working as the official photographer for Nine Inch Nails. His works are predominantly portrait based, however also include the photography for album covers including Marilyn Mansons “Mechanical Animals” and Korns “Remember Who You Are”. His works have been featured in magazines including Vogue, Revolver and FHM to name just a few.

  • Ross Halfin

    Ross Halfin

    Ross Halfin had originally intended on becoming a painter, studying fine art at the Wimbledon School of Art in the 1970s. It was during this time that he bought his first camera, a Pentax Spotmatic, and would sneak it in to various concerts to photograph the shows. He would send his images of bands such as The Who and Led Zeppelin to various London music publications. This inspired a writer from Sounds to form a new music magazine focusing on rock music only. He photographed AC/DC for the first issue of Kerrang magazine in 1981, and since then has spent the last three decades touring with many of the worlds biggest bands, including Iron Maiden and Metallica as the official tour photographer.

  • Ami Barwell

    Ami Barwell

    Ami Barwell ome of the leading Rock n Roll Music Photographers. Album covers, live shots, promotionl pictures and tour photography for all major record labels. Having shot some of music’s biggest artists to worldwide critical acclaim, she is known for her iconic intimate portraits of Thom Yorke and Ian Brown through to Motorhead, Foo Fighters, The White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Iggy Pop, REM, Lenny Kravitz and Iron Maiden.

  • Anton Corbijn

    Anton Corbijn

    Anton Corbijn (born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for almost three decades. Some of his works include music videos for Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence” (1990) and Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” (1993), as well as the Ian Curtis biopic Control (2007), George Clooney’s The American (2010), and A Most Wanted Man (2012) based on John le Carré’s 2008 novel of the same name.

    Corbijn has photographed Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Tom Waits, Prāta Vētra, David Bowie, Peter Hammill, Miles Davis, Björk, Captain Beefheart, Kim Wilde, Robert De Niro, Stephen Hawking, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Morrissey, Simple Minds, Clint Eastwood, The Cramps, Roxette and Herbert Grönemeyer, amongst others. Perhaps his most famous, and longest standing, association is with U2, having taken pictures of the band on their first US tour, as well as taking pictures for their Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby albums (et al) and directing a number of accompanying videos.