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My Chuck Brown Photo on the Grammys

Posted on February 12, 2013

Here’s a blurry photo taken with my iPhone of my photo of Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go Music and one of D.C.’s favorite sons, being featured on the 2013 Grammy Award telecast during the show’s “In Memorium” segment . It’s by far the biggest placement of my career. The Grammy production office contacted me two weeks ago asking to license the image and I was happy to make that deal. The pricing is done on a…

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Concerts Fillmore Silver Spring

Ellie Goulding @ Fillmore Silver Spring

Posted on February 12, 2013

I didn’t know a whole lot about Ellie Goulding before covering this show but I came away impressed. She has a great voice and a commanding stage presence. I also had no idea how popular she was, but the kids LOVE HER. It’s easy to see why, her music straddles the line between Robyn and Katy Perry so it appeals to fans of both. Lights for this show were only OK, which was a surprise since they…

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Concerts DAR Constitution Hall

fun. @ DAR

Posted on February 12, 2013

I am totally in the tank for fun. They were great guys when I met them last year and they really impressed me with the way they carried themselves. Very down to earth. I think we could all do much worse as far as popular bands go. They write great songs with KILLER hooks and those songs deserve to be big hits. They are also a blast to photograph. My only issue with this show is that…

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Blog Portraits

Portraits of fun.

Posted on February 5, 2013

Last year before the doors opened at the Sweetlife Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion I tagged along for an interview with Jack Antonoff, Nate Ruess and Andrew Dost of fun. They were very nice guys, you’d have never known that they had the #1 single in the country at that time. I had roughly three minutes for a few quick snaps before  their soundcheck, so I didn’t have time to do much of a lighting set up. Just a…

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9:30 Club Concerts

Purity Ring @ 9:30 Club

Posted on February 4, 2013

This was a pretty challenging gig. There was no photo pit so I had to choose my spot in the crowd carefully. I chose the stage left, just off the center of the stage because I knew the keyboardist in the band would be stage right and also I found a enough real estate to squeeze into to get a spot right at the stage. Since I couldn’t move around at all, I ended up basically getting variations of…

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9:30 Club Concerts

Datsik @ 9:30 Club

Posted on February 4, 2013

After taking 2 weeks off at the beginning of January, I eased back into shooting shows in the new year with this Datsik gig at the 9:30 Club. I never know what to expect at EDM shows as far as the conditions go. Lots of time we’ll get pit access but the stage set up is so large it does no good and I have to go shoot from the crowd. Luckly that was not the case…

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Concerts featured Fillmore Silver Spring

2 Chainz @ Fillmore Silver Spring

Posted on January 29, 2013
2 Chainz Based on a TRU Story

It’s not everyday that you get to cover a show by the hottest MC in the game. I don’t think anyone can argue that 2 Chainz was the hardest working rapper in the land with his incredible 2012. It seemed like every club banger had a “2 Chainz!” refrain in it somewhere last year. The crowd at the Fillmore was as hyped as any show I can remember seeing there. It was absolutely packed from front to…

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Best Concert Photos of 2012

Posted on January 19, 2013

I’m a bit late on this post because I was shooting assignments right up until the end of the year and I also moved apartments in the middle of December. I’m still not fully unpacked but I’m getting there. 2012 was a great year for me. I had photos in Rolling Stone and SPIN along with a ton of other online placements. I also got the chance to shoot many of my favorite artists like Noel Gallagher,…

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