How To Become A Rockstar Photographer Podcast with Matthias Hombauer

Today´s guest is San Diego based music photographer and author Alan Hess.

He is the author of “All Access: Your Backstage Pass to Concert Photography“ which was published in 2012 and is the first instructional book about concert photography. In total Alan published 16 photography books and in this interview, we’ll talk about the challenges as a music photographer, the complete process from starting writing to marketing his books and how he became part of the Photoshop World Instructor Dream Team.

Today's guest is Justin Sullivan the driving force behind one of my favorite bands New Model Army. Having him on my podcast is a dream come true, and I am so grateful that he sat down with me to do this interview.

The first time when I got to know New Model Army was when they were playing at the Forestglade festival in Austria. I was 15 years old and was fascinated by their music and their performance. Even my parents who picked me up from the concert liked their music and we visited New Model Army shows together in the next upcoming years.

I had seen NMA in concert for more than ten times and this year it happened that we worked together when they were playing a show in Vienna. This event was one of the experiences when you know that all the struggles you go after as a concert photographer are all worth it.

Working together with a band that helped me through the good and the bad times in the last 20 years and then getting the opportunity to work with them is the most rewarding feeling you can get as a music photographer.

In this interview, Justin talks about the successes and struggles in the last 36 years of New Model Army. He gives insights into the life of a professional musician and how to survive in the music business nowadays. It´s an inspirational journey from someone who has a deep understanding of the music scene and a life experience we all can learn from.

Welcome, today's guest is Toronto based Electronic Dance Music photographer William Selviz. I am really excited to have him on the show, cause we shared a similar story. William dropped out from school in order to live his passion and found his way into the entrepreneurial life. He founded an online music magazine called “rendrd” where he provides a platform for upcoming musicians, photographers, and writers to get their career going. In addition, he shapes the electronic music scene in Toronto with his passion for his project.

What I love about his story is that he, like me, just did something nobody expected from them. He jumped into the cold water, figured out a way to be successful and stick to his plan.

With this interview, I want to give you the proof that also you can live your dreams when you find your mission in life and be consistent with your work. Being self-employed (in any field) is a marathon, not a sprint. You’ll have bad times and you’ll have a good time, but the most important point is to believe and trust in yourself.

Let’s William share his thoughts in the interview.

Today's guest is music photographer Brad Moore who started his career as an assistant for Joe Mc Nally and Scott Kelby. Brad learned all about lighting and photoshop and is one of the few who had worked with mentors such as Joe and Scott. So this guy definitely knows what he is talking about.

In this interview, we’ll talk about transitioning from a job as an assistant with a monthly income to become a photography freelancer, the challenges when building your own brand and we talk about the business side of our industry.

In this episode, I´ll discuss with Per Ole Hagen how to deal with rights grabbing contracts and how the guys in Norway deal with those stupid restrictions.

So, let´s think about it. When bands like FooFighters and Megadeath using rights grabbing contracts all over the world, but they drop them in Norway, we sure can learn from our colleagues.

Therefore this interview can be the basis for a paradigm shift in the concert photography business. For me it´s important that you understand exactly what those rights grabbing contracts are and why you should never sign them.

Per will reveal the Norwegian way on how to deal with rights grabbing contracts and talks about solutions and challenges in our industry.

Today's guest is Liverpool based music photographer and the founder of Shout about it Georgia Flynn.

As a follower of my How To Become A Rockstar Photographer Project, you know that it´s all about supporting people in our concert photography community and help them get to the next level in their career.

And this is exactly what Georgia is doing as well. With her project "Shout about it" she is helping photographers to promote their work online and right now she is building a worldwide platform. This was the reason why I sat down with her to discuss her ideas and talk about her upcoming exhibition project called "shout about it live", where musicians and photographers work together to spread the word of our awesome concert photography community.

Today’s guest is Los Angeles based Music Photographer Dustin Jack.

In our interview Dustin reveals his approach when it comes down to shooting portraits of Rockstars like Motely Crue, Tommy Lee and Zakk Wylde. We will get a behind the scenes look at his Phil X Show with more than 40mio views on youtube and we’ll talk about how he one the Photoshop Guru Award.

My guest today is Austin based music photographer Pooneh Ghana. She started her career by taking photos of musicians with cheap plastic cameras which she uploaded on flickr. This eventually led to her first festival assignment for a blog where she only used a polaroid camera for her band portraits.

Nowdays, her clients include NMA, Pitchfork, The Rolling Stone Magazine, Red Bull , VICE and many more.

 

In this episode Pooneh is going to reveal how to get into a tour bus and tour with bands, her approach on shooting backstage portraits on festivals and why she still shoots polaroids.

Zack Whitford is a Los Angeles based music photographer and known as the tourphotographer of one of the worlds biggest Rock bands Aerosmith.

 

Zack will share his story becoming a pro photographer, his experiences when working with Aerosmith and his approach to please everyone in the band with his photos. Furthermore we'll talk camera porn about the Fuji and Sony Mirrorless system and why he shot an entire tour with only a 35mm lens.

 

This interview is full of insights and I am grateful that Zack took the time and sit down with me for the show. So without further ado, let´s get straight into the interview.

Zack Whitford is a Los Angeles based music photographer and known as the tourphotographer of one of the worlds biggest Rock bands Aerosmith.   Zack will share his story becoming a pro photographer, his experiences when working with Aerosmith and his approach to please everyone in the band with his photos. Furthermore we'll talk camera porn about the Fuji and Sony Mirrorless system and why he shot an entire tour with only a 35mm lens.   This interview is full of insights and I am grateful that Zack took the time and sit down with me for the show. So without further ado, let´s get straight into the interview.