SF Bay and Downeast Maine based doug@douglasdespresphoto.com (six one seven) 285-4350
Music + Dance + Theatre
A mix of musicians and performance artists onstage and about, doing what they do best. Includes both commissioned and fan based imagery, produced on old school fully manual film cameras and gelatin based film.
Select artists include Katherine Park, The Coverups, Amanda Palmer, Snow Leopards, Bleu, The Rudds, Kate Radio, Andrea Gillis, On Fire, Charya Burt, Kathryn Calder, Swervedriver, Passion Pit, Clara Kebabian, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Aberdeen City, Jonathan Nosan, Anna Venizelos, Brian Viglione, and Fred Pitts.
Amanda Palmer performs her music at The Paradise rock club in Boston Massachusetts.
Commissioned by the artist's management.
The beloved well-trodden bygone cardboard sign duct taped to the floor between bistro tables at The Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Billie Joe Armstrong performing with his side project band "The Coverups" onstage in Oakland at the small mighty rock venue of The Golden Bull bar.
The Coverups played here on September 19, 2019, half a year before the Covid 19 pandemic proved so difficult to the income of the bar, that it temporarily shuttered it's doors. Now it's opened again, outside only, and planning to build a parklet in the city of Oakland.
Ana Delgado performs as part of a flamenco dance troupe at The Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City, Florida.
Commissioned directly by the artist.
Michael Angelakos, Passion Pit Frontman performing at the Great Scott venue in Allston Massachusetts. This was just on the heels of their first album "Manners," when usually steel-footed Boston indie crowds were bending the floorboards from their collective energy.
Nate Shumaker of On FIre, Musician TT and The Bears Place, Cambridge MA.
Commissioned directly by the artist / band.
Actor Nick Trengrove scales a beam on part of the set of "Never The Sinner," an off-broadway true crime based hit written by John Logan and directed by Stuart Bousel in San Francisco's EXIT Theatre.
The show tragically had to cut it's run short, after only a handful of performances in March of 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Actor Sam Bertken (left) and Briana Yvonne Biller (right) puff stage pipes as reporters on the set of "Never The Sinner," an off-broadway true crime based hit written by John Logan and directed by Stuart Bousel in San Francisco's EXIT Theatre.
The show tragically had to cut it's run short, after only a handful of performances in March of 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Actor Nick Trengrove (right) on stage with co-lead Rich Sargent (left) on the set of "Never The Sinner," an off-broadway true crime based hit written by John Logan and directed by Stuart Bousel in San Francisco's EXIT Theatre.
The show tragically had to cut it's run short, after only a handful of performances in March of 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Actor Sam Bertken (left), Terry Maloney Haley (center), Briana Yvonne Biller (right), and Fred Pitts (back) on the set of "Never The Sinner," an off-broadway true crime based hit written by John Logan and directed by Stuart Bousel in San Francisco's EXIT Theatre.
The show tragically had to cut it's run short, after only a handful of performances in March of 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Actor Fred Pitts during a promo photoshoot for the title role of "The Arms and Armament of Stephen of Blois: part two of the Anarchy Quartet." A solo one act play performed live in The EXIT Theatre in San Francisco, as well as being live-streamed worldwide. Written by Stuart Bousel and directed by Nick Trengrove.
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