All photographs © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski Photography
Monday, June 29, 2009
Jessica Averbach & Shanan Edelheit ~ Sunday, June 28th, 2009 ~ Minnetonka, Minnesota
All photographs © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski Photography
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival ~ Manchester, TN ~ June 11th-14th, 2009
Please click on photos below for enlargements.
All Photos & Video © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski
Bonnaroo
June 11th-14th, 2009
Manchester, TN
I traveled to the 2009 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival to curate the "Jim Pollock: Phantasy Pheast" retrospective art exhibition presented by the 101/exhibit gallery (Miami, FL). When not working the tent, I also shot some music, art and scenes for my friends from Headcount.org.
We arrived Wednesday after a 9 hour drive from Chicago. The weather was hot and wet and remained steamy and moist throughout set-up. Fans started arriving Thursday afternoon as storms rolled in and the skies poured rain. By mid-afternoon the Pollock exhibition was packed as eager art collectors sought out the newest releases and rare works on display. That evening brought more rain and soaked fans sought steamy shelter inside the exhibition.
The 900SF booth was set up directly across from the "That Stage" which was curated by David Byrne Friday and offered acts such as Dirty Projectors, St. Vincent, Santigold & Ani DiFranco. We broke down the tent during Bryne's set opposite the Beastie Boys and escaped just in time to run over to the main "What Stage" to catch a late night Midnight-2am set by Phish. I hadn't shot a single act yet and decided to take a breather from the 80,000 fans gathered to catch Phish and venture over to shoot Flavor Flav, Chuck D, Terminator X and Professor Griff in Public Enemy performing their first album in its entirety, "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back". I returned to the booth in the middle of the morning to catch the Greg Gillis one man dance party known as Girl Talk. Gillis had concertgoers bumping til 5am as they crowded onto the stage to dance along to his crowd pleasing mash-ups.
Saturday brought clear skies, more interesting music from across the booth (Elvis Costello, Jenny Lewis, Raphael Saadiq, Allen Toussaint, Alejandro Escovedo) and special guests. Phish keyboardist Page McConnell stopped by the booth for a private viewing by his former college roommate, Pollock. I escaped mid afternoon to capture some shots of surprise guests Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer All Star Band. The tent stayed open until main stage headliner Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band swept the crowds from Centeroo.
Sunday was rough. Everyone’s feet and backs were hurting and my voice was completely gone thanks to screaming over the Thrash Metal acts playing opposite the tent. Cage of Elephants, Dillinger Escape Plan, High on Fire and others rocked hard as we strained to sell posters to throngs of poster collectors on the last day of the festival. We broke down the tent around 7pm missing Snoop Dogg's performance on the main stage opting to get everything packed up in time to catch the final performance of the evening from Phish starting at 8:30pm. Phish's first set included a special guest appearance by the Boss for Mustang Sally, Bobby Jean and a rollicking, set-closing Glory Days.
With a few items left to clean up back at the booth, Pollock and I made our way back to the R.V. for an early morning departure. Pollock worked by laptop on upcoming projects as I packed remaining supplies and toured the festival grounds one last time.
I'm back in Illinois tonight to post this blog but off again tomorrow to photograph the remaining shows in Phish's first leg of summer tour. Next week I'm off again to Miami, Florida to capture Pollock's VIP gallery opening at the 101/exhibit gallery. Be on the lookout for more photos of these exciting adventures upon my return in the coming weeks.
Flavor-Flav w/ Public Enemy 12:30am-1:45am "This Tent"
Monday, June 08, 2009
Shannon & Keith Aimone ~ June 6th, 2009 ~ Wheaton/Lombard, IL
All photographs © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski Photography
Monday, May 25, 2009
Summer Camp ~ May 24th, 2009 ~ Three Sisters Park, Chillicothe, IL
Please click on photos below for enlargements.
All photographs © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski Photography
Summer Camp
May 21st-24th, 2009
Three Sisters Park
Chillicothe, IL
All photographs © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski Photography
Summer Camp
May 21st-24th, 2009
Three Sisters Park
Chillicothe, IL
(below) Dugan Mara prepares for the kids parade.
on acoustic guitars for their 3:45pm-5pm set on
the Sunshine Stage.
(below) Willie rocks the Sunshine Stage from 8pm-9:30pm
Saturday, May 09, 2009
The Dead ~ Allstate Arena ~ 5/4/09 ~ Chicago, IL
All photographs © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski Photography
The Dead
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Allstate Arena
Chicago, IL
See more of my Dead concert photos at
Jamtopia.com
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Lamb of God & As I Lay Dying ~ Friday, May 1st, 2009 ~ Congress Theater ~ Chicago, IL
All photographs © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski Photography
Lamb of God
As I Lay Dying
Friday, May 1st, 2009
Congress Theater
Chicago, IL
(above) How to renovate the Congress Theater in 10 seconds.
(below) Lamb of God
Friday, April 17, 2009
Marilyn Manson Handcrafted Album Collaboration Kaczorowski / Ollendieck
All photographs © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski Photography
Marilyn Manson Handcrafted Album
Photographed, Designed & Printed by Jason Kaczorowski
Handcrafted Album by Gena M. Ollendieck
Commissioned for Marilyn Manson & 101 / e x h i b i t
I had the privilege of photographing Marilyn Manson's Trismegistus VIP Opening Reception at the 101 / e x h i b i t gallery in Miami, FL back in December 2008. These photographs, utilized to promote the gallery, were published in the Miami Herald in addition to being featured on the galleries website.
I created two unique albums for the gallery commemorating the exhibition. The first was a display piece used by the gallery to spotlight the opening night VIP event. The second was intended specifically for Marilyn Manson. I knew I wanted to create something as unique as Manson himself as his personal gift.
During the summer of 2008, I discovered an album crafter named Gena Ollendieck showcasing at an art fair in Illinois. I was immediately intrigued by Ollendieck's amazing abilities to masterfully craft hand-bound leather albums true to the classic 16th century process. Her work finds inspiration from old discarded objects, nature, vintage metals, black and white photographs, internal workings of broken pocket watches, typewriters, cameras and children's games. I immediately knew she was the perfect person to create such a one-of-a-kind album for Manson.
After designing the album from images captured at the event, I used a process of photo transferring where I printed the images in reverse onto a translucent, frosted, vellum-like paper and using 80% rubbing alcohol and a bone folder, applied the printed images to sheets of heavy-weight, gray, deckled-edge stonehenge stock by hand.
Using knowledge gathered from my recounting of the art show and subsequent VIP afterparty in addition to Ollendieck's own perception of Manson for inspiration, the twisted, leather 40 page, 12"X12" album was created.
An old mercury thermometer creates the rod holding the red curtains that sets the stage opening to the central focus of the green folded hands of a fairy representing absinthe, commonly referred to in historical literature as "la fée verte" or the "Green Fairy". This has an old tie tack around the neck of the fairy with mesh wings and an old ball bearing attached to the winding components of a clock. Small brads set into the sides of the green fairy and a red watch hand is set into the center of the body and the legs are tied. The fairy is set on top of an old pocket watch face and the back side of the fairy can be viewed from the inside of the book. The fairy is set on top of an old red lipstick and an old scale and pulley. The clock hand points to a magnified old button reading "Hard Road". A saw blade is set running into the frame of the composition and continues outside of the frame onto the books cover. At the baseline of the composition is an old medical vile, a awl, and a small vile 210 metric standard. Set in the background is an old metal tin from black flag and additional pins and needles. A gold metal plate with raised printing completes the cover reading "INSURED".
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Shannon & Keith ~ Engagement Session ~ March 27th, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Look for me in Rolling Stone, Spin and Relix Magazines!
During the summer of 2004, my wife and I traveled the country registering young voters at concerts for the non-profit organization, Headcount.
Between 2004 and 2007, Headcount registered nearly 60,000 voters - more than any all-volunteer group in the country. They also set the all-time record for voter registrations generated on a single concert tour by registering over 12,000 people at Dave Matthews Band shows in 2004 which I worked and photographed. I've stayed on over the years as a voter registration volunteer and photographer.
Headcount is unrolling a new campaign and running ads in Rolling Stone, Spin and Relix magazines featuring one of my photos. Jamie Huntsman, Headcount's talented Artistic Director, used a shot I had captured at the 10,000 Lakes Music Festival in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota in 2006.
Look for my photo credit in the lower right hand corner of these popular music magazines next month.
Nicole Stallman & Louis Dragisity ~ March 14th, 2009 ~ Naperville, IL
All photographs © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski Photography
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Phish artist Jim Pollock creates and delivers his Hampton 2009 concert posters
All photos/videos © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski Photography
All photographs © 2009 Jason Kaczorowski Photography
March 6th birthday that Jim Pollock
gifted a miracle Friday night ticket to.
(below) Pollock autographs fans ticket stubs
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
