How To Become A Rockstar Photographer Podcast with Matthias Hombauer
From 2014 to 2019, I built How To Become A Rockstar Photographer into one of the world’s largest platforms for concert photographers. While I now coach Leaders and Entrepreneurs to Achieve from Inner Peace, I’ve kept this podcast online as a way to give back to the amazing music photography community that started it all.
This show is for concert photography beginners, enthusiasts, semi-pros, and pros - or anyone chasing the dream of becoming a successful music photographer.
🎤 Tune in for:
Inspiration and motivation from the best in the industry
Practical tips and real talk to level up your skills
Behind-the-scenes stories from iconic rock photographers
Whether you're driving, working out, or walking your dog—each episode offers backstage insights and proven strategies to help you kickstart your concert photography career and live your dream.
Join me on this journey, kickstart your concert photography career, and start living your dream today!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 101
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2020
HTBARP 80 Karen Mason Blair: Working with Nirvana, Alice In Chains & Soundgarden
Karen Mason Blair reveals some great stories about working with all the famous grunge bands and talks about publishing her new book.
HTBARP 79 Jawn Rocha: Being a Tour Photographer
Jawn Rocha speaks about his journey on becoming a full-time touring photographer and how his hair became his marketing tool.
HTBARP 78 Guy Prives: Building a Music Photography Community
Working as a concert photographer in Israel and how Guy Prives built a 6000+ members concert photography community on Facebook.
HTBARP 77 Brittany Long: Overcoming Challenges As a Music Photographer
In this interview, Brittany will talk about her journey as a concert photographer and how she is mastering the challenge shooting from a wheelchair.
HTBARP 76 Matt Lief Anderson: Being The Photo Editor At Pitchfork
In this interview, Matt talks about why he hires photographers with weird styles that wouldn't work with most other publications. We talk about his passion for landscape and music photography and how…
HTBARP 75 Julie Gardner: Touring With Neil Young
Today’s guest is California based live music film producer, studio engineer, photographer, and designer Julie Gardner.
In her long recording career as a studio engineer Julie have worked with some of…
HTBARP 74 Ester Segarra: Being A Heavy Metal Photographer
If you’re a metal fan, chances are very good that you have already seen some of Esters work on album covers or magazine covers of the most famous heavy, doom death, and black metal bands.
In this in…
HTBARP 73 Drew “Rukes” Ressler: Being The No.1 DJ Photographer In The World
Today’s guest is DJ photographer Drew Ressler, better known as RUKES.
Rukes is considered the #1 DJ photographer in the world (named #1 in the “Greatest Music Photographers Right Now” by Complex in 2…
HTBARP 72 Maryanne Bilham: Working With Def Leppard And Carlos Santana
Maryanne is an award-winning photographer with 30 years of industry expertise spanning 4 continents. Best known for subjects including rock ‘n’ roll musicians, celebrities, and high-end advertising c…
HTBARP 71 Robert M Knight: Working With Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck And Led Zeppelin
Today's guest is Robert M Knight. Raised in Hawaii and based in Las Vegas, Robert is a long time advertising photographer who also specializes in the rock and roll music industry. His career spans fr…
HTBARP 70 Katja Ogrin: Starting A Music Photography Career Abroad
Katja Ogrin talks about her beginnings back in Slovenia, music photography business and why she is still hesitant to switch to mirrorless camera systems.
HTBARP 69 Thomas Falcone: Crushing It As A Tour Photographer
In this interview, Thomas will talk about his touring experiences from his beginnings in a tour bus to exclusively flying and getting upgraded to first class all the time. He will reveal why he is ta…
HTBARP 68 Jerome Brunet: Self-publishing A Photo Book Using Crowdfunding
Today’s guest is Jerome Brunet, an award-winning photographer whose work has been published internationally in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Time, Billboard, and The New York Times to name a few public…
HTBARP 67 Greg Gutbezahl: Curating Your Own Music Photography Exhibition
Today’s guest is Greg Gutbezahl and in this interview, it’s all about exhibitions. Greg will give you a step-by-step guide on how to plan, curate and do the marketing for your own exhibition. And he’…
HTBARP 66 Christie Goodwin: Working With Taylor Swift, Katy Perry And Ed Sheeran
Christie Goodwin with a career that spans over 35 years, gives insights into her world and talks about challenges, successes and her dreams. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in art photography, s…
HTBARP 65 Leo Mascaro: Starting A Music Photography Business In New York
Today’s guest is New York-based music photographer Leo Mascaro.
Leo was born in Sao Paulo and after finishing his graphic design education, he moved to New York to start his career as a music photogr…
HTBARP 64 Steve Rose: Being One Of The Tour Photographers For Journey
Today’s guest is California based music photographer Steve Rose.
We’ll talk about how he started his career by taking photos of his cat (and Steve even got published in a cat photography book), how h…
HTBARP 63 Adam Elmakias: How To Become A Tour Photographer
It doesn’t matter if you know Adam from his work, being a social media star with 416 000 followers on Instagram or if you ordered one of his camera wristbands. This interview is for you if you want t…
HTBARP 62 Andy Tatt: Breaking Into the Music Festival Business
After finishing my online academy Shooting The Rockstars he got serious about becoming a music photographer and found a unique way how to break into this business.
In this interview, Andy Tatt talks…
HTBARP 61 Bela Molnar: Music Videos And Live Events Filming
Bela Molnar is a director, producer, and photographer specializing in documentaries, music videos and live events filming.
He has been nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in New York for a music v…