1. Hiya, what's your preferred name and pronouns, and whose country do you live on?
Brodie, he/him, Kaurna land.
2. What's your rig rundown?
Mirrorless (though I miss the DSLR feel) + wide prime lenses + TTL flash is my formula at the moment.
I always carry a pancake lens and a mini-TTL flash too for run and gun behind-the-scenes photos - smaller cameras are less intimidating for subjects.
3. How did you get in to shooting live music?
I've always been around music and bands, and I've always been around photography.
I think the first time I put them together was around 2018 at a friends local indie show. Since then I've moved around scenes, met new people, listened to new bands, and that has all helped me refine my style.
4. What/who are some of your influences in photography?
There are too many to list if I'm being honest so I'll limit it to 3.
I love Glen E. Friedman (@glenefriedman) (he did the famous Minor Threat - Salad Days cover for those not in the know), though I feel like every punk-adjacent photographer will list him as a huge influence.
I was talking to a friend a couple years ago about my music photography and he showed me Meline Gharibyan's (@melinecholy) work, and her style of being very audience oriented played a huge impact in the further development of my style.
Lastly, not really a photographer, but Susan Sontag and her book 'On Photography' really changed the way I think of and approach photography. Especially the concept that I cannot, and should not try to "capture it as it really is". Photography is always a choice, the frame, the moment, the lighting, the direction - they're all choices. I actually wrote an article on this earlier this year for those interested.
5. Do you have a favourite show that you've photographed, or a favourite memory from a gig you've shot? Or maybe a particular favourite photograph that you've taken?
Every time I leave a gig I have a feeling like I've lost 'my touch', yet every gig I do I somehow take my new favourite photo - so it's impossible to pin it down to one because by the time this publishes I'll have another.
6. What else do you like to photograph outside of live music?
I guess 'street' would encapuslate it, but its really just whatever I see that catches my eye. I hate subjecting strangers to photos though so not that kind of street photography.
7. How can folks reach out to you if they'd like to get in touch?
Insta
