How To Become A Rockstar Photographer Podcast with Matthias Hombauer

Today’s guest is Mississippi based music photographer Jennifer Devereaux.

We’ll talk about how she manages her concert photography job with three kids and venues more than 2 hours away from her hometown. Jenn will explain how she balances her music and wedding work on social media and what challenges she has as a woman in the photo pit.

Today’s guest is Melbourne based Hip Hop photographer Michelle Grace Hunder. Michelle, a former model picked up her first camera when she was 31 and is now considered one of the most revered Australian Music Photographers.

Michelle has been invited as the official tour photographer for international Hip Hop acts and has been the Official Festival Photographer for "Come Together" at Sydney's iconic Big Top at Luna Park for 4 consecutive years.

After shooting with literally every major player in the Australian Hip-Hip scene, Michelle has spent the last three years on a personal project called "Her Sound, Her Story" celebrating Women in Australian Music, across all genres,

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In this interview, we’re talking about her career as a successful hip-hop photographer, how Michelle is using Instagram and Twitter to build relationships with artists and her approach when it comes down to shooting portraits in the studio.

Today’s guest is music photographer Roger Navarro.

We’ll talk about the music photography scene in Barcelona, how he found his own style, and why he loves shooting festivals.

Today’s guest is Sarah a music and portrait photographer born and based in Reading.

Her clients include Upset Magazine, Rolling Stone, Kerrang! Magazine, The Guardian, and The Observer to name a few. She also regularly works as an in-house photographer at the renowned O2 Academy Brixton.

In this interview, we’ll talk about Sarah's approach when it comes down to shooting portraits of Rockstars.

After Paul Miles in ep 30 and John Raptis in episode 34 we’re back in Australia!  This time my guest is Jaz Meadows, a Melbourne based music photographer. Let me tell you, I love talking to those guys from down under. It seems they are always in a good mood and it’s a lot of fun doing this interviews with them.

Jaz is someone who found a unique style for his concert photos. Every time a black and white concert photo with high energy in it catches my eyes, I know this is one of Jaz work.

So we’ll talk about how he found his unique black and white style, about the music photography scene in Australia and how he approaches social media to get his work seen.

Let me introduce my guest for today: Mr. Brian Rasic.

Born in Yugoslavia, Brian began his career photographing local acts, and touring bands from abroad, in his hometown of Belgrade in the early seventies. He moved to London in 1979 and over the years has trained his lens on artists from every genre of popular music, including rock, pop, jazz, country, and blues.

A dedicated fan of The Rolling Stones, Brian has covered their shows since the early 80's, capturing some exceptional moments along the way.

In February 2006 he was the Stones' official photographer at their biggest-ever gig, in front of 2 million people on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.

Brian also worked with his personal heroes such as David Bowie and David Gilmour, who have also entrusted him with being their official photographer.

We talked about how the music business changed and of Cours his experiences with the biggest rock stars.

Today’s guest is someone who is living the Rockstar life. Let me introduce you to Mr. David Bergman, the official tour photographer of Bon Jovi.

We’ll talk about his crazy schedule when he is on tour with the band, why being persistent and knowing exactly what you want is the key to success and why his upcoming workshop is taking place on a cruise ship.

Today's guest is Kyser Lough, a music photographer and Ph.D. student in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.

What made this interview so fascinating for me was that Kyser is the first one I know of who wrote 2 research-based papers in the field of concert photography. And as he told me there is almost no literature in the academic field about this topic out there. So he is helping with his findings to make the concert photography community even better.

Kyer had a closer look at the body movements of concert photographers in the pit and how behaviors like blocking others can have an effect on the whole group. In addition, he interviewed women about their experiences in the male-dominated photo pits and drew some interesting conclusions which can help us to make the photo pit a safe place for all of us.

Today's guest is the Swedish musician Stefan Bratt. He is the founding members of one of my favorite bands, Atlas Losing Grip and he recently joined the punk rock legends of No Fun At All.

In this interview will we talk about how to deal with self-doubts and how to survive the music business as a musician, Stefan will talk about behind the scenes of Atlas Losing grip and why he is living his dream right now.

Today’s guest is New York-based music photographer Joe Papeo.

We’ll talk about why Joe left his high paying desk job in order to live his dream as a concert photographer, how he managed to break into the music industry and why he is now shooting for the Impractical Jokers, one of the biggest comedy television shows that tours a live show.