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Meet Michael Reilly: I am a painter of jazz, when the painting is right you can see the music come through the brush. I have been painting of 25 years, Jazz to me is the perfect thing to paint; it combines both my passions.

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Meet Arkady Mitnik: Born in former USSR, Arkady combines his professional career of Engineer with his main hobby of jazz photography.

Gear: A number of Olympus E-cameras with top Zuiko lenses, Canon G-12 as well as analogue (film) OM-1 OM-2 and Mamiya 645. Teachers and/or influences? Leonid Levit from Ukraine, Alik Beliavtsev. I ...

Meet C. Andrew Hovan: A devoted jazz fan since my school days, I have had the great advantage of combining many of my loves in a variety of creative ventures. A musician and writer, I have been an avid photographer since my freshman year in high school. My college studies led me to Boston ...

Meet Gerry Walden: I have been listening to jazz and trying to capture the essence of it in photographs since the late '60s. Based in southern England, where I was Born, I cover as many gigs and festivals as I can manage to get to and I now have a substantial library of jazz ...

Meet Adriana Mateo: Adriana was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the daughter of award-winning director of photography Roberto Mateo, who mentored her. Adriana started photographing with a still camera at an early age, and following her family's tradition, started working on feature films and advertising commercials. At age 23, she began working ...

Meet Bruce Lindsay: I live in the UK and specialize in performance photography. I came to jazz after some years photographing musicians in almost every other genre: rock, indie, folk, Americana, metal. My work has been featured in magazines, on album sleeves and in exhibitions. My photograph of bluesman Robert Belfour was chosen to ...

Meet Chuck Koton: Born into a family of photographers, I began carrying a camera around with me as a teenager. Eventually, I even set up a darkroom in my parents' Bronx apartment. Around the same time, I began my lifelong love affair with jazz. One night, I came across my older brother's copy of ...

Meet Lorenzo Di Nozzi: I am a stage photographer. I live between Milan, Madrid and Barcelona, where I work as official photographer of the Theatre Palau de la Musica Catalana. I am also the official photographer of the Barcelona Gospel Festival and the Voll-Damm Jazz Festival of Barcelona.

Gear: Nikon D700; ...

Meet Pat A. Robinson : My love for photography began in junior high school, starting with a plastic Kodak film camera, as a means to meet people and start new friendships. I dreamed that the art of photography would be my life's work. I'm a self-taught photographer. My skills advanced further by taking photography, ...

Meet Yves Dorison: I'm a independent photographer since several years only and I kept my job in a French school as School Counsellor. Most of my work consists of jazz photography. For the past few years I have worked with musicians for their press relations. I made a book with the French author Alain ...

Meet Mark Robbins: I have been shooting for 53 of my 62 years. My college career consisted mostly of avoiding the draft (Viet Nam was hot and heavy) which I successfully did, by luck. Two years after graduating I became engaged and went into the family furniture business, which I ran until selling it ...

Meet Becky Yee: Photographer/videographer Becky Yee peels back the cultural skins to expose what's deepest in us. This piercing-yet-inviting point of view can be seen in her editorial, commercial and curated portfolios. Becky's ability to provoke confession and embrace compulsion has drawn in clients from Beijing to Berlin. Focusing on the extreme contrast of ...

Meet David Björkén: I was born in Sweden in 1970 and I currently work as a graphic designer and freelancing photographer in the advertising market and with OPUS magazine, Scandinavia's largest magazine about classical music. I also do some landscape and portrait photography.

Gear: I mainly use a Canon EOS 5D MkII. ...

Meet Doug Dickin: Experience: over 30 years active in photography, studied photography at Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada. Spent two years as a news photographer with the Regina Leader Post, two years with a government photo department, several years as a Mac Support Specialist. Gear: Nikon D700, iMac, Photoshop, Aperture. Teachers ...