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Capturing A Concert
Capturing A Concert
by Grace Hendricks
If you’ve been missing going to concerts this past year, Sarah Arnold can take you to one from behind the lens of her camera.
Although it’s been a minute since any of us have been to a concert, imagine the feel, the smells, the sounds, the ricocheting floor under a pounding bass...For Sarah Arnold, going to concerts is not only a passion, it’s her career. And capturing the feel, the sound, the moment is what she does best—all behind the lens of her camera.
Sarah Arnold (saraharnoldphotography.com) started photographing concerts at age fourteen. “I think I always had a fascination with watching an artist do their thing and really get lost in something they created,” she remarked. “It’s something really beautiful to watch.”
Her fascination with concerts is no wonder. Arnold’s father was a retired touring musician, and growing up in Palmdale, California, she was raised in an environment saturated with the arts and creativity. A few years before she began photographing concerts, Arnold became intrigued with photography in part because of her father.
“I remember going through old photographs in my parent’s house and coming across a stack of mounted portraits in black and white. My father...had taken photographs of people he had met on the road and they were absolutely striking,” she recalls.
As Arnold began to explore photography and develop her own style, she remembers, “I grew up around a lot of music and musicians. When I picked up my camera as a teenager and started documenting everything around me, it was only a matter of time before I started documenting the musicians in my life.” Little did she know as a teenager how far that would take her.
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