This is my fourth time doing these backstage portraits. Whether or not I can do the shoot depends on if the venue 3 white walls, a white ceiling, and a backstage area people actually hang out in. If it doesn’t at least have these, my shoot is going to be difficult. The first three times I did it everything worked out pretty well. I ran into a few problems but …

I headed out on tour with Of Mice & Men this year. These are the same dudes I went to the studio with in early 2011, Warped Tour with in 2011, Warped Tour with in 2012, and tomorrow I will heading to Australia with them. I love photographing them and their music is a great soundtrack for me to shoot along with every night, unlike the book, which is terrible. All I …

Off to Asking Alexandria’s homeland of Europe, or at least closer to their homeland. I boarded a plane in San Diego and had a layover in Newark with a final destination of Dublin. A few things about my tour life are different from everyone else’s in the band/ crew. I travel to and from tours alone. Most bands/ crew meet up somewhere in their country and fly together to the …

Portraits are my favorite. I remember telling someone after this shoot that if these were the only images I got on this tour, I would be okay with that and go home a happy man. I had never really photographed about half of the people in these photographs, so it was exciting to get portraits of them! These are all shot pretty quick, maybe 30 seconds- 3 minute shoots backstage. …

I posted all my images of Asking Alexandria from the Outbreak Tour, however there were a few other bands on the tour as well. Here are some photographs from throughout the tour of As I Lay Dying, Memphis May Fire, and Attila.

I have toured with Asking Alexandria twice before, and it had been a year since I last toured with them. Man! was it good to get back on the road with them, I missed their crazy parties, photogenic faces, accents, and frequent tasteful nudity. But most of all I just missed kicking it with them.  They are good dudes and we are all in our early twenties- so touring with …

The Collide With The Sky tour was fuckin’ fantastic. I knew the Tonight Alive and Sleeping With Sirens guys from Warped Tour, and met Hands Like Houses on the tour. I have been working with Pierce The Veil for…. 4… almost 5 years now. Holy shit, it’s been awhile. It was a good tour, everyone was golden. I spent 18 days riding with Pierce The Veil and 5 days with …

After shooting the first half of the Collide With The Sky Tour tour I had no plans of going back out, I wanted to, but nothing had been scheduled. However soon after flying home I got a call from Michele, Pierce The Veil’s manager, saying the guys wanted me back out with them. Done deal. I had snapped some of the best images I had ever taken the first time …

We took as many group photos as possible with Pierce The Veil on The Collide With The Sky Tour. It was their first headliner in years and we wanted a crowd shot from every night we could get one. It’s hard cause Vic gets into music zone and I go into zone mode so a few days we honestly just forgot a few times. After awhile I just ran out …

Mitch Lucker passed away the other week from a motorcycle accident. Mitch was the frontman for Suicide Silence and a father. Despite their intense band name, the five make up some of the most caring people I ever met. Check out what they did for some kids during the holidays here. I had the opportunity to photograph them several times over the past five years. I wash’t extremely close with Mitch, but …