Brook Bobbins
Brook Bobbins is personally one of my favourite photographers, this is because the people who feature in his photographs are popular and i happen to like some of them. The main location of the majority of his photographs are taken at music shows. Luckily for him, he contacts management of artists before hand and gets close shots of the artists from backstage/front row.
"I think anyone who has a good eye and has a unique approach at taking pictures should be considered a photographer. You don’t need to be getting paid to be a photographer. You don’t need to be a respected contributor to a huge magazine to be considered a photographer. You just need to have a love for capturing moments and have a bit of skill. You need to be someone who takes it somewhat seriously as well as being experimental and playing with the settings on the camera. If you’re shooting on P all day or blasting a stock flash at every chance you get and you consider yourself a photographer, you may want to fall back and reevaluate your position."