Music has been a crucial and formative part of my life. As the only child of a pair of music lovers, some of my earliest memories of my dad involve running errands in his work van while listening to rock CDs. Singing “Diary of a Madman” with him is probably one of my happiest memories, and once I was deemed “old enough” they began taking me to rock and metal shows. I was seven years old at my first concert, Alice Cooper, and from there the shows just didn’t stop. Since my parents have always been avid concertgoers, favoring the rock and metal scene, it wasn’t much of a surprise when I decided I wanted to become a concert photographer.