Expanding the Creativity of Photography |
Greetings! My name is Norman Sands, and I am a professional performance photographer
based out of Chicago. For the past 14 years I've been pursuing the art of photography,
which is my life's passion. My work deals primarily with musicians
and their fans at concerts and festivals, although lately I've found myself with
a growing interest for nature and architecture as well. I realized my love for photography when I began shooting at Grateful Dead shows in the early 90's. The pictures back then were mostly of my friends and I having fun in the parking lot, but that's when everything just sort of 'clicked'. My love for music, photography, and travel soon intertwined, and taking pictures took on a whole new dimension, becoming more than just a simple hobby. I had discovered my life's pursuit. And I've been following my dream ever since. I do photography because I love it and it brings me joy and happiness like nothing else I have ever done. It's like trying to capture moments through the mind's eye. It's taking points of interest or things that I love and trying to capture it to share with others. Although most of my experience is with concert photography, I'm open for shooting anything that's interesting and fun! I've done promo work for bands as well as for CD's and websites. My work has been featured in Relix magazine and on websites such as Glidemagazine.com, 10klf.com, WEFest.com, Setlists.com, and also on Jambands.com, where I won a contest for Best Amateur Photographer in 2003. Some of the bands I've worked with include Cornmeal, Family Groove Company, Just Infinite, Danny Burns Defectors, and Mike Edwards. I've also shot over 200 bands such as the Foo Fighters, Mandy Moore, Dashboard Confesional, Seether, Tim McGraw, Toby Keith, Keith Urban, Grateful Dead, Ratdog, Phil Lesh & Friends, String Cheese Incident, Gov't Mule, George Clinton and Parliament Funk, Hot Buttered Rum, Keller Williams, moe., Widespread Panic, and Umphrey's McGee. You can see the full list below. As stated before, I am based out of Chicago but am available for location and travel assignments. I am totally digital in order to provide service and efficiency of the highest quality. Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have, and I look forward to working with you! Bands I've shot: 2 Sweet 32 Below 56 Hope Road Acoustic Wizards Al & the transamericans Alan Jackson Alejandro Escavedo Animal Liberation Orchestra Assembly of Dust Back in Stride Banyan Bassnectar Bawn in the Mash Bay Side Bembe Orisha Benevento Russo Duo Beyond Words Biffy Clyro Big and Rich Big Head Todd and The Monsters BlackHawk Blake Shelton Blind Melon Blue Turtle Seduction Bo Ramsey Bochman BoomBox BrainChild Brittany Lee Brooks and Dunn Bryce Niemiller BucketHead Bump Carolina Rain Charlie Daniels Charlie Hunter Trio Charlie Musselwhite Chicago Afrobeat Project Chicago Farmer Chris Stills Cinder Road Citizen Cope Copeland Cornmeal Cosmic Railroad Creek Road Ramblers D.J. Logic Danny Burns Defectors Dark Star Orchestra Darrin Rosha Daughtry David Ford David Gans Dearborn Deep Banana Blackout Delta Nove Dickey Betts Dierks Bentley Dirty Dozen Brass Band Dub Trio Dumpstafunk Ekoustik Hookah Emerson Drive Enchanted Ape Ernie Hendrickson and the makebelieve Eufoquestra Everyone Orchestra Family Groove Company Fareed Haque Fat Maw Rooney Fiction Plane Flaming Lips Foo Fighters Freek Bass Future Rock G. Love and Special Sauce Gabby La La Galactic Garage Mahal Gary Allen George Clinton and PFUNK George Strait Girl Talk Gov’t Mule Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Grateful Gary Great American Taxi Great Guns Green Lemon Greg Sparo Gretchen Wilson Groovatron Gwalla Gwallas Ha Ha Moose Hackensaw Boys Hardscrabble HonkeyTonk Homeslice Hot Buttered Rum Hunab Inept Jacob Fred Jazz Odessey Jah Roots Jake’s Leg Jazz Wholes Jenny Keefe Jerry Joesph Joe Nichols John Anderson John Mayer John Ralston Joint Chiefs of Staff Josh Gracin Josh Turner Junior Brown Just Infinite Kan nal Karl Denson Katie Smith Keith Urban Keller Williams Keller Williams Incident Ken Blueswell Band Kenetix Kenny Chesney Kick the Cat Leadfoot Lee Boys Les Claypool Lil Brian and the Zydeco travelers Lorrie Morgan Los Lobos LOTUS Mace Hathaway Madahoochi Majors Junction Making april Mandy Moore Martina McBride Mason Proffit Medeski Martin & Wood Melvin Seals Meshell Ndegeocello Mike Edwards Miss Lori Holton Nash Moe Montgomery Gentry Mr. Blooto Mud Turtle Nancy Stone New Monsoon New Primitives Nitty Gritty Dirt Band North Indiana ALLSTARS OAR October Road Omega Moos One Under Orchestrated Loons Osmosis Oteil and the peacemakers Particle Percival Potts Perpetual Groove Personal EFX Peter Rowan Phil Lesh and Friends Phil McGarrah and the Running on Empty Band Phil Vasser Project Quartet Ra Ra Riot RAQ Rascall Flatts Ratdog RED Reverend Payton’s Big Damn Band Rhythm Devils Roadside Zoo Rob Wasserman Robert Hunter Rookie of the Year Rory Miller Band Sara Evans Sawyer Brown Scott H Biram Sean Shiel SecondHand Serenade Seether Sex Fist SHeDAISEY Shelly Fairchild Sleeper Car Soap Soulive Southern Uprising Spearhead with Micheal Franti Stampead Steve Kimock Band Stockholm Syndrome String Cheese Incident STS9 Sue Foley SunnyWheat Susan Tedeschi Suzy Bogguss T.U.G.G. Tea Leaf Green Terrapin Flyer Terri Clark The Ataris The Avett Brothers The Big WU The Black Crowes The Bravery The Dead The Disco Biscuits The Editors The Family Stone Experience The Fuz The Giving Tree The Gourds The Grateful Dead The Herbert Wiser Band The Hewitt Sisters The Hue The Jazz Mandolin Project The Lifeline The Nadas The New Mastersounds The Other Ones The Radiators The Rentals The Roosters The Roots The Second Amendment The Starting Line The Super American Happy Fun Good-time Jamband The Tossers The Trichromes The Whole Fam Damily The Wreckers The Wrights Theresa Andersson Thomas Martinez and Wild Frontier Three - Bill Kreutzmann,Oteil Burbridge,Scott Murawski Tim McGraw Tim Sparks Toby Keith Tom Constanten Trace Adkins Tracy Bryd Trampled by Turtles Travis Tritt Trent Tomlinson Trey Anastasio Trick Pony Trisha Yearwood Trouble in Stride Turbine Two Girls U-MELT Umphrey’s McGee Unity Ustorm All Stars Victor Wooten Band Vince Herman Vince Welnick Wayne Renn Wayword sons Wide Spread Panic Wild Sweet Orange WildBirds Willie Waldman Wood Brothers WookieFoot Yonder Mountain String Band Your Vegas Zappa Plays Zappa Zilla Zmick |