2018 has been something else! From working festivals on weekends while working 9 to 5 at an event / tour production company during the week to Tour Managing Doll Skin on the final cross country run of Vans Warped Tour. I am exhausted but also ready to keep busy and keep creating.
I'm still incredibly grateful for the opportunity to kick off my "band world" touring career on this tour. Not that my first experience on Warped was terrible by any means, but this year was tenfold better than when I did the full tour back in 2016 with a sponsor. This time around I had a lot more freedom to shoot and in turn made way more friends. I'm so thankful for the people on the this tour that acknowledged my existence and always stopped me to say hi and chat about our day's every day amid the circus level craziness that is Warped Tour.
I'm also so so so SO thankful for everyone who started following my work this summer either through Adam Elmakias or Doll Skin socials and liked it enough to stop me and say so. While such a small thing it helped me stay inspired to edit and go shoot bands when I felt very physically and creatively exhausted.
Overall, I'd like to thank all the ladies in Doll Skin (Alex, Meghan, Nicole, and Sydney), their incredible parents Holly, John, Temre, Gina, Matt, Dora, and Seth, Doll Skin's incredible merch manager Cameron, their manager David Ellefson, all of the women that run Warped Tour, every young woman that participated in the GBTRS x Doll Skin Roadie for A Day Program, the Accounting/Production plugs Matt, Ryan, and Kerry, EVERY HUMAN THAT WORKED ON THE OWLY.FM STAGE AS CREW, FOH, MANAGEMENT YOU MADE MY LIFE SO EASY I CAN NEVER REPAY YOU, Kami Thomas, Imani Givertz, and every single friend I made on or reconnected with on this tour.
With all that being said, I will be splitting this blog into two parts. I spent the first half of the tour not making taking photos for Doll Skin a primary focus and the last half of the tour that became an additional focus in addition to managing everything regarding the band's day to day routine. A lot of my favorite photos from this tour I took during the last half and I think there is a shift in my work in the second half. I'm choosing to do two seperate blogs for that reason.
LINKS
2016 VWT BLOG | PART II
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JUNE 20TH - PRE-PRODUCTION DAY - POMONA, CA
JUNE 21 - POMONA, CA
RORY - DAYSEEKER
Garrett doing guest vocals for "Sleep In The Sea PT II"
Sydney, Alex, Nicole, Meghan - Doll Skin
SYDNEY - DOLL SKIN
PHINEHAS
JUNE 22 - SAN DIEGO, CA
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
ALL TIME LOW
DAYSEEKER
DAYSEEKER
DAYSEEKER
JUNE 23 - MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA
HAIL THE SUN
HAIL THE SUN
DOLL SKIN
JUNE 24 - VENTURA, CA
ISSUES
ISSUES
CHASE ATLANTIC
SHARPTOOTH
SHARPTOOTH
SHARPTOOTH
MOVEMENTS
DAYSEEKER
TYLER POSEY - PVMNTS
TAKING BACK SUNDAY
TAKING BACK SUNDAY
TAKING BACK SUNDAY
SUNSET IN VENTURA
JUNE 28 - PHOENIX, AZ
SYDNEY - DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
ALEX - DOLL SKIN
NICOLE - DOLL SKIN
THE WORD ALIVE
THE WORD ALIVE
THE WORD ALIVE
JUNE 29 - LAS VEGAS, NV
DOLL SKIN
A photo of me in Vegas before I went to bed at 10 pm.
JUNE 30 - SALT LAKE CITY, UT
CHASE ATLANTIC
CHASE ATLANTIC
EIDOLA
EIDOLA
DOLL SKIN
JULY 1 - DENVER, CO
ISSUES
ISSUES
AS IT IS
AS IT IS
STATE CHAMPS
STATE CHAMPS
DAYSEEKER
THE MAINE
JULY 3 - MARYLAND HEIGHTS, MO
HAIL THE SUN
PHINEHAS
STORY OF THE YEAR
PICTURESQUE
PICTURESQUE
JULY 4 - KANSAS CITY, KS
My good friend Kami and I got festive on the fourth of July
JULY 5 - BONNER SPRINGS, KS
EVERY TIME I DIE
PICTURESQUE
THE USED
THE USED
DOLL SKIN
PICTURESQUE
JULY 6 - DALLAS, TX
HAIL THE SUN
HAIL THE SUN
HAIL THE SUN
WAGE WAR
WAGE WAR
IN HEARTS WAKE
DAYSEEKER
DAYSEEKER
DOLL SKIN
PHINEHAS
JULY 7 - SAN ANTONIO, TX
DOLL SKIN
KUBLAI KHAN
DAYSEEKER
JULY 8 - HOUSTON, TX
DAYSEEKER
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
HAIL THE SUN
MOVEMENTS
MOVEMENTS
PICTURESQUE
JULY 10 - NASHVILLE, TN
CHASE ATLANTIC
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DAYSEEKER
JUAN PARDO DOING GUEST VOX FOR DAYSEEKER
BROADSIDE
JULY 11 - OFF DAY - ASHEVILLE, NC
JULY 12 - VIRGINIA BEACH, VA
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
JULY 13 - CAMDEN, NJ
TONIGHT ALIVE
GRAYSCALE
GRAYSCALE
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
DOLL SKIN
YUNGBLUD
VARIALS
JAR, NICOLE, AND MEGHAN
JULY 14 - HOLMDEL, NJ
DOLL SKIN
JULY 15 - HARTFORD, CT
Stay tuned for part two!