This summer, Crooked Tree Arts Center is celebrating music photography. A unique field with a variety of approaches, music photographers capture a sound, style, scene, and period of time through their images. In this presentation, well-known photographer Bill Schwab shares his own approach to music photography.
Through a career that spans four decades, American photographer Bill Schwab has developed several portfolios of work which explore a variety of themes and subjects. Though his work can be seen in private, corporate, and museum collections around the world, one project that has not been discussed at length is his music photography. In this presentation, Bill Schwab will share his own images and talk about his work and process.
About the Artist
Bill Schwab’s career as a photographer and publisher now spans over 4 decades with work in many private, corporate and museum collections around the world. He has been a pioneer in the area of online representation and branding of his photographic art having successfully managed a worldwide collector base for many years as well as consulted with other artists and galleries on the subject. In addition to his work as a photographer, through his North Light Photographic Workshops, he facilitates classes in several photographic process a year at his northern Michigan facility as well as leads expeditions of photographers to Iceland, the Faroe Islands and more. Bill is also founder and host of the "Photostock Festival", an annual gathering of photographers, collectors and enthusiasts for workshops, reviews, presentations and demos.
In 2005 he founded North Light Press with the intention of independently supporting and publishing the work of emerging as well as established photographers and has published several successful titles to date. Recently launched under his North Light Press label is a new series titled the “11+1 Signature Series”, a series of small run, limited edition books that contain 11 reproductions and 1 original print. Each case bound book is signed and numbered by the photographer in an edition of only 100. There are now 10 books in this series that is continually growing and includes titles from past Critical Mass, Top 50 photographers, S. Gayle Stevens, Clay Lipsky and Anne Berry among others.
Bill Schwab is the founder of Photostock Festival. Photostock2022 is taking place June 24-26. Find out more online.
