Red Lens 13: Pat Graham on documenting music, culture & politics

On episode 13 of Red Lens, I sat down for a conversation with long-time music photographer and an old friend, Pat Graham. In this episode, we cover a lot of ground from how Pat got started with photography, his punk photography in the late 1980s & 90s creating iconic images with bands like Bikini Kill, Fugazi, L7 and many more, through his tours as a photographer with Modest Mouse and his photographs of instruments, his approach to protest photography, his projects, books and more.

I hope you enjoy it!

You can find Pat’s work on Instagram at instapatgraham: https://www.instagram.com/instapatgraham/

Here are some things referenced in the episode: 

Kiss Alive record cover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive(Kissalbum)#/media/File:Kiss_alive_album_cover.jpg 

Bob Gruen’s image of Tina Turner using the shutter drag method discussed in the episode: https://www.bobgruen.com/ike-tina-turner/?_gallery=gg-10-148 

Charles Peterson - photographer of the Seattle music scene in the late 1980s and 1990s with iconic photos of bands like Mudhoney and Nirvana who also used the shutter drag method discussed in the episode: https://linktr.ee/Charles_Peterson 

Pat Graham’s first photography book, Silent Pictures, published by Akashic Books: https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/silent-pictures/ 

Pat Graham’s second book, Instrument: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/instrument/author/graham-pat/ 

Johnny Marrs’s book Marr’s Guitars which is mostly photography by Pat Graham: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/marrs-guitars-johnny-marr?variant=41046832185378 

Tees for Togo, t-shirt company run by Kathleen Hanna that raises money for girls in Togo: https://tees4togo.com/ 

Pat Graham’s photo of Kathleen Hanna on a Tees for Togo shirt: https://tees4togo.com/products/rebel-girl-book-tour-black-t-shirt

Kathleen Hanna’s new memoir Rebel Girl: https://kathleenhannaofficial.com/book 

The intro/outro song in this episode is called Beautiful Boom Bap by Music Unlimited. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/beats-beautiful-boom-bap-113776/

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