REVOLVER SPRING 21 X EVANESCENCE

In June of 2014, I packed up the car from my home of The Bay Area, and moved to Los Angeles in hopes of being a music photographer. A novel can be written about my brief time there. I met both wonderful and terrible people. I created some amazing art and was the most poor I’ve ever been in my life. I experienced and photographed live music at venues I only read about or saw on music documentaries.

It has always been a dream of mine to have a magazine cover in a music magazine and when REVOLVER reached out to me to photograph Evanescence for their Spring cover, I felt all kinds of emotions. I’ve assisted my mentor and friend Nick Fancher on two different cover photo shoots for them in the past and always dreamed of doing my own work for them too.

It took a global pandemic and loss of work to find time to explore and experiment with photography. I started doing virtual art photos in May as a way of reconnecting with people. I had no idea that I would end up meeting and creating with humans of all ages and backgrounds from all over the world.

I am honored that I got to meet Amy Lee of Evanescence this way. We had an hour in February where we not only connected about the last year, but we talked about how it feels being creative women. I’m really pleased with how the covers and feature turned out, these images were Amy Lee, a virtual meeting, a projector, flowers, crystals and me.

I am a music photographer and can’t wait to create with more wonderful musicians for the rest of my life.

Chelsea Wolfe's, "In Heaven"

Chelsea Wolfe’s, “In Heaven”, October 2020. I will forever love making art with Chelsea Wolfe, she encourages me to create and grow as an artist. This footage was created through zoom, the effects are from crystals and other materials. Chelsea covered David Lynch’s “In Heaven” and this is how it all came together. I feel so much gratitude to be able to experiment and create during this dark time, thank you Chelsea.

Virtual Art with Australian musician Tori Forsyth

It was wonderful meeting Australian musician Tori Forsyth back in May for a virtual art session. She ended up using one of the images as the art for her cover of ‘Falling Down’, originally released by US rappers Lil Peep and XXXTENTACION.

Tori explains the story behind the songs creation, “Recording a Lil Peep song is something completely out of my comfort zone but as Covid19 would have it, this is a theme of the year. Myself Zach (Band Member/Producer on the track) and Reece (Band Member) all contributed from corners of the country and globe to bring this to life. My first engineering experience was done in my bedroom closet and a lot of make shift swaps.”

You can listen to her song here, these virtual art photo shoots have connected me with artists from around the world and for that I am grateful.