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.
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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.
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Amber Gray
Amber Gray focuses on photographing people, and specializes in conceptual, beauty, fashion and editorial photography. Amber has also recently turned her attention to film. Her photographs appear to take place in a world more whimsical than our own. Women are used to show strength and beauty, and one can see the photographer’s sense of humour and love for glam-rock peek through from her subjects.
Amber Gray’s Clients include:
Maybelline NY, Mont Blanc, Verizon, MGM, Splenda, Sony,
McDonald’s, Discovery Channel, Orly Cosmetics, CND
Penelope Cruz, Beyonce, Selena Gomez, Maria Sharapova, Roisín Murphy, John Turturro, Nina Hagen, Tyra Banks
Marie Claire US, Mare Claire – China, Madame Figaro, Elle Germany, DANSK, S, VISION, Trace, Vibe, Brides,
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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.
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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.
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Max Vadukul
Max Vadukul is a leading image maker best known for his portrait photography. He follows in the tradition of what he calls “art reportage” photography, which he describes as “taking reality and making it into art”. He has also had a lifelong affinity with grainy high contrast black and white, a foundation of much of his early work. He has long standing relationships with magazines such as The New Yorker, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue, and Rolling Stone. He shoots regularly for W Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue China, and others.From 1996 to 2000 he was the New Yorker’s staff photographer, a title previously occupied by Richard Avedon. He photographed hundreds of subjects for the magazine, including Mother Theresa, Al Gore, Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, 40 Nobel laureates at once. In 1997 he photographed much of the magazine’s celebrated Indian Fiction issue. After the New Yorker, he became photo Editor-At-Large for Tina Brown’s Talk magazine. He established himself in the 1990’s with a large body of work for French Vogue – a large portion of which was created with his wife, the eminent fashion editor Nicoletta Santoro. They have collaborated often through the years. In the mid 1980s Max photographed several prestigious Yoji Yamamoto advertising campaigns, introducing many to his signature dynamic movement-filled black and white images for the first time.