The Wire
By Coda Photos
The summer run starts this week. Three festivals open the 2026 season on two continents. You know the headliners, so we skip them: here are the acts further down the bill we would not miss.
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Heard
By Coda Photos
Fred again.. turned his USB002 tour folder into a public archive, trading phones-down rooms for better photos and open files. It is a mechanic any working music photographer or artist team could copy.
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From the Pit
By Annelies Vollmuller
Fifteen minutes of Jungle in the rain with a dead camera screen. What you do when you have to shoot blind, and why the take still made it home.
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From the Pit
The night my screen died: shooting Jungle in the rain
28 May 2026
Voices
Meet a London Music Photographer: Inside the Work of a Concert Specialist
23 Mar 2026
Field Notes
Roskilde 2026: Why we keep coming back
19 May 2026
The Wire
What you missed at SXSW London. And what is still on.
3 Jun 2026
Heard
The folder Fred opened.
29 May 2026
The Wire
Festival season opens: Primavera, Governors Ball and Bonnaroo 2026
1 Jun 2026
From the Pit
Shooting at SO36 Berlin: A Photographer's Guide
30 Mar 2026
Field Notes
Paradiso Amsterdam: Spring Concert Photography Recap 2026
24 Mar 2026
Field Notes
Live Music in Leeds: March and April 2026
17 Mar 2026
From the Pit
The unwritten rules of the pit
14 Mar 2026
From the Pit
Exposure when the lights are doing the work
21 Jan 2026
From the Pit
The three-song rule, and what to do with it
17 Jan 2026
Field Notes
A festival run as a non-profit since 1971, with sustainability you can see and art that makes you stop walking. Why Roskilde keeps earning the trip back, and why this year might be the one to put on your list.
19 May 2026
From the Pit
A practical guide to lighting, lenses, and pit access at Berlin's most important and most demanding 250-cap room.
30 Mar 2026
Field Notes
Song one for the engineers, song three for the lighting designer. A spring of live photography at Paradiso, and what the room teaches you about timing.
24 Mar 2026
Voices
A working London concert photographer on the soft shot that catches something real, and why bands value it more than the sharp shot of nothing happening.
23 Mar 2026
Field Notes
A working city with an unaffected relationship to its music scene. What that means for the photographs that come out of it, March through April 2026.
17 Mar 2026
“Live music is the only subject that does not pose for the camera. We document it for the people who were there, and for the people who wish they were.”
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