Episodes
In this interview, Matt talks about why he hires photographers with weird styles that wouldn't work with most other publications. We talk about his passion for landscape and music photography and how your photos might be published by Pitchfork too.
Published 12/18/18
Today’s guest is California based live music film producer, studio engineer, photographer, and designer Julie Gardner. In her long recording career as a studio engineer Julie have worked with some of the most successful recording artists and bands today.
Published 12/10/18
Ester Segarra talks about her work and life as a well respected photographer of the most famous heavy, doom death, and black metal bands.
Published 12/04/18
Drew Ressler hard work paid off after landing his first tour with Deadmau5 in 2009. He is now travelling the world with DJs or music festivals like Ultra!
Published 11/18/18
Maryanne is an award-winning photographer with 30 years of industry expertise spanning 4 continents. Best known for subjects including rock ‘n’ roll musicians, celebrities, and high-end advertising campaigns.
Published 11/13/18
Today's guest is Robert M Knight. Raised in Hawaii and based in Las Vegas, Robert is a long time advertising photographer who also specializes in the rock and roll music industry. Robert is best known for his "Guitar Legend" archive, having worked with such artists as Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Slash and many more.
Published 10/30/18
Katja Ogrin talks about her beginnings back in Slovenia, music photography business and why she is still hesitant to switch to mirrorless camera systems.
Published 10/23/18
In this interview, Thomas will talk about his touring experiences from his beginnings in a tour bus to exclusively flying and getting upgraded to first class all the time. He will reveal why he is talking to other photographers every day and we'll talk about his dreams doing more full documentaries.
Published 10/16/18
Jerome Brunet shares his secrets on raising $30,000+ using crowdfunding and why it’s a good idea to donate your work for non-profit organizations.
Published 10/02/18
Greg Gutbezahl gives advice on how to plan, curate and do the marketing for your own exhibition and how to sell your work after the show.
Published 09/24/18
Christie Goodwin with a career that spans over 35 years, gives insights into her world and talks about challenges, successes and her dreams.
Published 09/18/18
Today’s guest is New York-based music photographer Leo Mascaro. Leo was born in Sao Paulo and after finishing his graphic design education, he moved to New York to start his career as a music photographer from scratch. In this interview, he'll share his best strategies to work with bands.
Published 09/11/18
Today’s guest is California based music photographer Steve Rose. We’ll talk about how he started his career by taking photos of his cat (and Steve even got published in a cat photography book), how he became one of the tour photographers of the band Journey and how to master the challenge when shooting the same concert every evening on a tour.
Published 09/04/18
It doesn’t matter if you know Adam from his work, being a social media star with 416 000 followers on Instagram or if you ordered one of his camera wristbands. Adam will talk about how he started his career as a tour photographer and he’ll share his best tips and tricks to become one. We’ll discuss how important marketing really is for a photographer and why we both love giving back to the concert photography community.
Published 08/25/18
After finishing my online academy Shooting The Rockstars he got serious about becoming a music photographer and found a unique way how to break into this business. In this interview, Andy Tatt talks about how he built an awesome team of concert photographers out of the HTBARP community and shares his secrets on how he approaches organizers and promoters of festivals in order to work with them.
Published 08/13/18
Bela Molnar is a director, producer, and photographer specializing in documentaries, music videos and live events filming. He has been nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in New York for a music video he did for Moby and Bela was in charge of 24 film cameras when shooting a performance of Jamiroquai. So this guy knows what he is talking about.
Published 08/07/18
Imagine documenting the beginning Rock N Roll in New York including artists such as Iggy Pop, Blondie, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, KISS, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Alice Cooper and many more sounds very exciting to me. And I guess for a lot of you who are listening right now a dream would come true if you could have experienced what Bob experienced in his career.    Bob Gruen became close friends with John Lennon & Yoko Ono and his photos are known as the most iconic and most used...
Published 07/29/18
Today’s guest is Rock N Roll Photographer Chester Simpson. Chester learned all the secrets of the photography business from legends such as Ansel Adams and Jim Marshall who took him under their wings, Both told him that he should always help other photographers which is an approach I really relate to.
Published 07/24/18
As an African French-born Londoner Coen Rees built a huge archive of music photographs taken in England in the mid-nineties and therefore documented the rise of the “Britpop” era. As one of the few black rock photographers back then she moved to Los Angeles and finally settled down in New York. Coen will reveal how she was able to shoot portrait from stars like Shirley Manson, Nice Cave, Wayne Coyne, Michael Stipe without any press accreditation or magazine access.
Published 07/17/18
Todays guest is New York based photographer and the deputy photo editor at Rolling Stone, Sacha Lecca. In this interview Sacha will reveal his best tips on how to get your work published in one of the most prestigious music magazines and we will talk about the future of our industry. Find Sachas work, his favorite camera equipment and much more on his show notes page at htbarp.com/sachalecca
Published 07/10/18
Today’s guest is Andres F Cortes, a multidisciplinary artist in the fields of screenwriting, directing, design and photography. In this interview, we’re going to talk about the underground music scene in Brooklyn, about Andres job as a filmmaker and how it differs from his photography work. Find Andres work, his favorite camera equipment and much more on his show notes page at htbarp.com/andrescortes
Published 06/26/18
Today’s guest is Los Angeles based music photographer Dave “Shitshow” Fearn, Dave committed to documenting the dark underground punk/rock scene instead of Hollywood celebrities and shooting big stadium shows. In this interview, we’ll talk about his personal journey from being a pro sports photographer who was never touched by his own work, why he is giving it all for the local music community and Dave will explain why he started to publish his own magazine.
Published 06/19/18
Today we’re going to discuss an important topic which every concert photographer should be aware of: ear protection and I am super excited that Ryan Parry, CEO of eargasm joined me for this interview. We’re going to talk about why earplugs are so important, the 2 key factors you should look for when buying earplugs and how Ryan came up with this unique name. Go to htbarp.com/eargasm and use the coupon code HTBARPEAR when checkout to get a -10% discount on your order. 
Published 06/12/18
Today's guest is California based music photographer and entrepreneur Matthew Belter. Matthew joined my HTBARP community right from the beginning and he will talk about how this event transformed this life to become a successful music photographer. He will also share what he learned when building his own family business and why he is working out hard with his kettlebells every day.
Published 06/05/18
Today’s guest is Glasgow based music photographer Alexandros Costa. Alexandros will reveal his hard-working ethic, how he became a finalist at the Heavy Music Awards “Young Photographer Of The Year” and we’ll talk about how important Instagram is to promote his work. With more than 50 000 followers he is absolutely rocking the platform and we’ll talk about his best strategy to build your brand on Instagram.
Published 05/29/18