Back in 2016, I started with concert photography by accident during an internship at Friendly Fire, a bookings and management agency in the Netherlands.
Under the guise of “Hey, it is pretty useful if we can post a number of photos on social media immediately after the concert to thank the visitors…” I was allowed to shoot the first three songs from two big concerts. Who, you say? The 1975 at AFAS Live and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at the Ziggo Dome.
I certainly didn’t take my best photos those evenings, but I found it fascinating. It was the moment where I realized shooting concerts and productions could be your actual job, how cool would that be to achieve?
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