Music portrait photography - 2 artists

The first music portrait photographer I have chosen to look at is Ross Halfin, who is a famous and well known music photographer. He started off studying fine art at University and soon realised it wasn't for him. It was when he started to sneak cameras into gigs and taking photos that he realised what he is good at. His photos have been published in Kerrang!, newspapers all over the world, rolling stone magazine and many more. He currently takes photos travelling the world, but his early work is incredible. http://www.rosshalfin.com/
Some examples;


Bob Marley


Rob Zombie


Korn


Stone Sour

His extensive list of clients and bands that he has shot for is very impressive, he's done a lot of work live at shows and then on location also. Amongst all of this he has also done studio shots but prefers locations. If you can think of a band..he has probably taken atleast one photograph of them!

My second photographer is Fin Costello, who is one of Ross Halfin's inspirations. He's an Irish photographer, his career started off when he moved to London and began shooting sports photography for magazines. Over the years Costello has worked with some impressive and influential names in the music industry including Kiss, Mick Jagger, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix and so on. Fin's photograph of Duran Duran was featured on their album Duran Duran in 1981.
biography - http://duranduran.wikia.com/wiki/Fin_Costello
Website - http://www.fincostello.com/menu.html


Mick Jagger


Duran Duran


Robert Plant


Aerosmith

I really love Costello's work because it is all shot on film and has a really grungey, raw feel to it. I think it capture the essence of rock and roll all together very well.

Another type of music photography i'm really interested in is festival photography. When people think of music photography they think of 'rock n roll' and pop stars on stage. When i think of music photography I think of festivals, summer time and everyone having a great time. These photographs are from Paul Underhill who is an event photographer and shot pictures for many festivals.

These are just some examples of his work. Underhill shot photos at a festival that I went to in the summer, Global Gathering. Here are some of my photos from the festival.

Left to right: Nicole, Me, Sarah

About 4am

Face paint

At the main stage