HTBARP 33 Jack Lue: Being The First Music Photographer Of Guns N Roses

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12/05/17 • 46 min

How To Become A Rockstar Photographer Podcast with Matthias Hombauer

In this episode, I am chatting with Jack Lue who started his music photography career as the first photographer of Guns N Roses back in the 80’s.

Jack will share his stories back in the days of Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll, we’ discuss how the music business changed and why he shot all 73 bands on the Vans Warped tour in one day.

In this episode, I am chatting with Jack Lue who started his music photography career as the first photographer of Guns N Roses back in the 80’s.

Jack will share his stories back in the days of Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll, we’ discuss how the music business changed and why he shot all 73 bands on the Vans Warped tour in one day.

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HTBARP 32 Igor RockXposure Vidyashev: Building a Successful Music Photography Business

Today ́s guest is Igor Vidyashev, better known under his brand name RockXposure: The fine art of Rock Photography.

Igor is the ideal example of someone who found his passion later in life. In his earlier years, he was building nuclear cruisers and submarines in Russia and it took almost 50 years for him to realize that photography is his real mission in life and he successfully completing a formal education in prestigious New York Institute of Photography.

In this interview, Igor will talk about his magic business plan that allowed him to get in personal contact with artists such as Zakk Wylde, the crazy story on how he met one of the best music photographers around (Neil Zlozower) who became his close friend and touring on Rock cruises in the Caribbean. Igor also built his own business, where he teaches photography and sells his own merch.

To get more info about Igor Rockexposure including some of his best shots, his favorite gear, and his courses go to the show notes pages: htbarp.com/igorrockexposure

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HTBARP 34 John Raptis: Building Your Photography Brand

My guest today is Melbourne based music and street photographer John Raptis.

John built a strong brand identity and we are going to focus on this important aspect in this epsiode.

Nowadays it’s not enough to shoot only great photos, rather you have to build your own brand. Which is definitely not easy.

Therefore we’ll talk about the best approach to get your first logo, the key ingredients every brand needs to have, how you can self-publish your photo books and what you need to take care of, that you’re not sued by any bands.