Pertti Nurmi Helsinki, Finland
T-Bone Walker in a gorgeous white suit in 1972; Eddie Taylor squeezing guitar strings in 1976; Otis Rush in sunglasses in 1980; Eddy Clearwater in a full headdress in 2013: These are just four of [...]
Dick Waterman – Oxford, Mississippi
If, as Rod Stewart famously sang, “Every picture tells a story,” then Dick Waterman has both the pictures and stories of the blues. As an agent and manager in the 1960s, Waterman and his Avalon [...]
Cristen Craven Barnard – Senatobia, Mississippi
Cristen Barnard began as an artist at age 4, and has grown to be a major illustrator of blues festival posters since her first in 1997 for the King Biscuit Festival. Since then, she has [...]
Stan Street – Clarksdale, Mississippi
One visit to Stan Street’s Hambone Art Gallery in Clarksdale and it’s obvious that he deeply loves all aspects of the blues. Though he began his art career as a schooled drummer, as he traveled [...]
Aigars Lapsa – Riga, Latvia
When the Blues Bites Club opened in Riga, Latvia in 2001, it brought American blues men and women to perform twice a month. Sitting in the first row, with a small pocket camera was Aigars [...]
Bill Steber – Murfreesboro, Tennessee
In 1992, photographer Bill Steber first traveled through the Mississippi Delta, driving north on Highway 61 out of Natchez along the fabled Blues Highway. He stopped in Leland, met Son Thomas and photographed him with [...]
Michael Maness, Memphis, Tennessee
Michael Maness colors his world in blues. His vibrant impressions of Arthur Williams and Luther Allison provided the basis for the 2006 and 2007 Blues Music Award posters, but his gallery of blues performers and [...]
Dusty & Val Scott, Dusty Blues, Pittsburgh, PA
If you're standin' in the photo pit of many a Blues festival, chances are Dusty Scott is shootin' next to you. Accompanying him and taking the wide angle shots is wife,Val. When the shootin' is [...]
VividPix & Design, Des Moines Iowa
Whether you are flipping through a copy of Blues Revue, Living Blues, reading BluesWax, looking at your favorite CD liner notes, enjoying a Blues Music Award or International Blues Challenge commemorative program, you have seen [...]
Jef Jaisun, Seattle, WA
Jef Jaisun has been actively photographing the Blues for over 30 years. Whether he’s working the Jazz Fest main stage or hanging out at the Back Porch in Chicago, or sitting in your favorite Blues [...]