Congrats to Michael O'Neal he won the Vernon Reid print "It's in the mail bro, ENJOY!"

To everyone who entered and didn't win, don't sweat it, you can always go to my merch page and BUY a print lolololol ya' cheap ass beeaaatchs!! or just hang tight cause when my new site is up and running I'll be giving away a 20g iPod with a cool Coop case (Scott Stewart Photography edition SUCKAS!!!) this thing will be packed with tons of my favorite albums and remix's...I'll have more on that later...

I'm doing a shoot this Friday with "She Wants Revenge" I'm stoked for that...there debut album is awesome, sounds a lot like the music of my youth...

Allright let me get back to the lab and finish these prints...Have a good week, I'll check in again soon...

peace
Scott =)

Ok, I've never done this on the site and since I'm such a hella cool guy lol...I thought this would be groovy.

*drum roll* So for the 1st time eva I'm giving away a gorgeous 16x20 b&w print of Vernon Reid (no digital mess!) printed from the negative in the lab on Professional Kodak paper...

No questions or cheesy q&a required just be the 10th person to e-mail me at scottstewartphotos@hotmail.com and YOU WIN!!

For those of you who didn't know, let me just put this out there for ya' - The Sabres are winning the cup this year...

SABRES!!!!!!!

I just found out about the Legendary Photographer William Gottlieb passing...

William Gottlieb, whose iconic photos of jazz legends such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong helped to define the image of jazz to music fans worldwide, died Sunday, April 23, at his home in Great Neck, N.Y., of a stroke. He was 89.
Gottlieb first used a camera in 1939 to illustrate his weekly jazz column ?Swing Sessions" in the Washington Post. He was paid for the writing, not the photography, and since the film, flash bulbs, and cameras (Speed Graphics and Rolleis) were bulky and expensive, he typically made only three or four exposures a session. He learned to shoot very carefully.

The photography paid off. It enhanced his column, later helped him become an Air Force photo officer in WWII, then clinched a job on DownBeat, where many of his images of the likes of Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie were first published. While at DownBeat, Gottlieb was an exceptional ?man on the street? reporter, letting the artists tell their stories through his articles such as his ?Posin?? column (after which today?s ?The Question? column in DownBeat is modeled).

Gottlieb left the jazz scene in 1948 to produce educational filmstrips, eventually as president of University Films/McGraw-Hill. He also wrote and illustrated 16 books, mostly for children. One of his Golden Books, ?Laddie The Superdog? sold more than 1 million copies.

Upon retiring from McGraw-Hill in 1979, Bill published his old jazz photos as The Golden Age of Jazz. The New York Times predicted that Gottlieb ?seems to be entering the golden age of William P. Gottlieb.?

His jazz images have since appeared on more than 350 record album and CD covers, on two dozen posters, and a like number of postcards and T-shirts. They have been in hundreds of books, magazines, calendars, TV documentaries, and even in major motion pictures as background atmosphere or used to re-create a historic site.

Meanwhile, exhibitions of the prints have appeared in more than 160 venues, from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm to the Navio Museum in Osaka, Japan.

Some of Gottlieb?s photos, starting with Duke Ellington, were acquired by the National Portrait Gallery: and his images are the basis of four US Postage Stamps. In 1998, DownBeat presented Gottlieb with our annual Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 1995, the Library of Congress, using funds from the Ira & Leonore S. Gershwin Fund, purchased all 1,600-plus of Gottlieb's jazz images ?for posterity.?

To view Gottlieb?s collection on the Library of Congress web site, go to:

I'm listening to this new Prince album "3121" and...um...I...

I was supposed to shoot Ghostface tonight in Buffalo for Verbicide...however that is not happening...I got a call from my homie yesterday, the dude who was going to write the story and he didn't get into any details, just said it's a "no-go"...I guess Ghostface doesn't need anymore press for his "Fishscale" album, it must be blowing up *shrugs* what-thee-fuck-eva

I'll be @ The Giraffes on Tuesday and I got some other cool s**t coming up...I'll give you the skinny on that later...

It's beautiful here in NY, I'm going out to enjoy the weather...

peace
SS

CANON 5D baby!!!! This camera is the shit!!!!

I'm debating on picking up new music...I'll probably get Nikka Costa's last album (not sure if I really want to spend loot on that though) copped the latest Murs & 9th Wonder album last week on my vinyl binge...it's a banger...

Been on a vinyl kick lately here's what I got last week for $40.00...

Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Madness - Keep it Moving
Commodores - Caught In The Act
Prince - (some double live European album, the name escapes me @ the moment)
Bowie - David Live
Earth Wind & Fire - Gratitude
Duran Duran - Rio
Lee Morgan - The Gigolo
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (my brother borrowed this from me 15 years ago and I never got it back...that's ok though I've still got his Clash - London Calling album LOL)
Zap Mama - A Ma Zone
Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
James Brown - Ain't It Funky
Miles Davis - European Tour '56 With The Modern Jazz Quartet & Lester Young (this is some beautiful stuff, all of the cats in the band are on top of there game, just killing it)
EPMD - Unfinished Business
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
Mingus - Clown
Monk- Brilliant Corners

I still prefer vinyl over cd...

Tomorrow if I can find some time I'm going to try and get out to catch Suicide City...I want to give Billy some photos from our shoot a few months back...

My site is soooo in need of a new look...I'm sick of looking at it LOL

Have a good weekend, go take a picture of someone, something, somewhere...

Be Well
Scott =)

We need to IMPEACH BUSH now dammit! How did YOU the American Voters **I don't vote! ESPECIALLY when I don't like either candidate** let this yard ape back into office for a 2nd term!?!?! Go vote here ---> http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer

Really quick update. I'm getting ready to go pick up some film (yes I still use film!) for tonights show...I'm shooting God Forbid and Arch Enemy...Angela (vocalist for AA) is wicked hot! Hopefully we'll have time to get together and take some candids...

Sunday I'm shooting Ghostface Killah and May 2nd I'll be taking snaps of The Giraffes...

I've got some really cool shit in the works to...I'll update the blog later with that...

peace
SS

Hey,

I published a few shots from Jeru the Damaja...Have a look...

I've also got a few Dub Trio flicks I'm going to publish later tonight...

Last nights SOPRANOS was bananas! I so need to do a cameo on that show...

Allright I'm off to the record store...I've been on a vinyl kick lately, I scored some great jazz albums over the weekend...I'll post a list of what I copped later as well..

peace

Hey,

I shot Jeru the Damaja on Saturday night, he didn't start his set until 12:30 and by that time I was feeling lovely (Heinekins baby!) I got some great pics, I'll publish a few later this week...

The sunday night show w/Asobi Seksu got cancelled, there van broke down (bummed about that, I talked with there management and there going to re-schedule soon)

Wednesday I'm shooting Dub Trio...dig: http://www.dubtrio.com/

peace
SS

GO BUY THE NEW 24-7 SPYZ ALBUM NOW!! IT'S FUCKING AWESOME!!! No I'm not street team'n for those cats!

I want a new 60G iPod (black), if anyone from Apple is checking out my site hook me up! cause I'm not trying to pay $400.00 for that freeging thing...

I watched "Cinderella Man" man last night...kick ass movie...I'm gonna try and check out "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" later tonight if I can stay awake...

I shot Blackalicious, the Lifesavas & Pigeon John last Friday the 31st...I got to the show late so I missed the Savas and Fatlip's set (pissed about that) I heard Lip did a few Pharcyde tunes...

I saw Lip at the venue walking around looking like a zombie. He had that "28 Days Later" vibe working. Dude had a really bad limp or a cool walk I couldn't tell..he was rocking this raggedy hobo gear and looking like he hadn't showered in a month. C'mon now your not getting any residuals from the Pharcyde albums!?! Go cop some new gear duke and ease up on the blunts, it's not a good look...

Anyway, I knew my boy Jay was going to interview him later and I wasn't doing anything at this point in the evening except drinking beers and scoping out the honeys so I figured why not take a few snaps of Lip as well. I saw him at the merch stand while I was talking with Vurs and asked if he had some time later would he mind talking a few photos, he was like cool at least I think that's what he was mumbling...

Here's the breakdown: Jay wrapped up his 5 minute interview...Lip approached me I said "Ok lets get some shots over here by this graffiti on the wall" mind you this was the same place me and Pigeon John took photos earlier. Lip seemed ok with it at first, I couldn't really read him he was acting so fucking weird. I started getting funny vibes from him on the way over to where I wanted to shoot, like dude thought I was gonna beat his ass or something. He changed his mind and said "Nah dude I'm straight" *confused look on my face* ok, what theee fuck eva bro...I kept it moving...

I will say this Lip's new solo album is tight.

Had a chance to get together with Pigeon John and the Savas for some photo ops (they were all hella cool - always are) spoke with Vurs he was like "Damn bro, I wish you would have gotten to the venue earlier so we could have taken some photos for the next album"....We talked a little about me potentially doing some work for there next release, can't say much else about that right now...

Published new photos from the Lifesavas, Pigeon John, Cuong Vu and Manny Valera...have a look when you get a minute...

I'll be shooting Asobi Seksu (colloquial Japanese for playful sex) in Rochester on Sunday 4/09

Here's a link ---> http://www.asobiseksu.com/

Do a google and your bound to read about the "My Bloody Valentine" influence when critics write about the band, it's not unwarranted there sound does have elements of the mighty MBV in it of course, but I think there's a lot more to them than that, see for yourself, if they come to your neck of the woods go check em' out, or god forbid go out to a record store (yes there ARE still mom and pop record stores out there) and buy there new album...

I'll check in again later this week...

Peace

Hey,

I was going to shoot the CULT tonight in Buffalo, but I don't feel like driving up there. I think I'm getting a cold it must be the weather...one day it's 50 and sunny and an hour later it's snowing and 15 degrees...

I got the photos back from the Manny Valera show last week they came out great! I'll publish some later...

Looking forward to the Doug E Fresh show on Thursday...

I'm pulling a LOT of my older stock photos off the site, and the new version although not finalized with me and my brilliant web designer yet, is going to have a more simplistic look...

Allright, going to take some meds and chill...

peace

Hey,

I'm in the middle of making dinner Gnocchi and sauce (yum!) just wanted to give a quick holla...

I took some photos of Manny Valera last week (super nice guy!) it was great to see him play again, he was accompanied by a trio on these two dates...his newest album "Melancolia" is amazing! I'm going to be writing a review on it, I'll have a link up to that when it's done and a few of the photos from the shoot...you can get to his site from my links page go check it out...there's some tunes up on his site for your ears and a link to buy his albums...

The latest local phenom "Teddy Geiger" is playing a SOLD OUT show tonight and all of the TRL girls are going to be there...one of my good friends sent me an e-mail earlier asking if I was going to shoot the show...his daughter who is 6 would love a print of TG...the answer is: regretfully no...I won't be able to make it to the gig...

Making a mental note to myself to smack this guy next time I'm at his house for pops.

Of course if I was getting paid to cover the gig, I would be there with my camera bag in hand...It's ALL about the $$$$

This week I'm shooting Doug E. Fresh on 3/23 and on 3/31 I'll be snap'n shots of Blackalicious, the Lifesavas and Fatlip...

Ahh s**t my pasta is boiling over !^@$%# gotta jet....

SOPRANOS tonight people!!!

Ba Da Boom!

Did you catch the new episode of Sopranos tonight? Wow!! This season is going to be in-freeging-credible!

I've added a few photos to the Living Colour gallery...I'll also have some photos up from Cuong Vo, I did a shoot with him last week...If you don't know who Cuong is here's a link to his site (www.cuongvu.com) this dude is taking s**t to another level with his trumpet playing...

This week I'll be shooting the brilliant piano player Manuel Valera (www.manuelvalera.com)

peace
SS

Hey,

More new photos added...I just published a few shots from Bedouin Soundclash, I had a blast hanging out with these guys...they were super cool...

Here's a link to there site http://www.bedouinsoundclash.com/ - They just got thru doing some work with Daryl (of the Bad-Soul Brains) check out the media section of there site...

I've dug up some more photos from the Living Colour show I shot in December of 05' - I'll add those this weekend...

Time to catch some zzzz's

Good Night!

I've finally dug out some of my "Orange Sky" photos from last year, the galleries been published on my site. Have a look...

Here's a link to the bands site www.theorangesky.com it's updated fairly often and you can find media and other cool shit there...

I've added a few Soulive photos to the site...

R.I.P. Gordon Parks

Another one of my heroes has passed...I can't even begin to explain what a profound effect Mr. Parks had on me wanting to pick up a camera and not just from a still photographic standpoint, every facet of his life whether it be directing, composing music or writing poetry. He did it all with such style and compassion, I wish I could have met him and talked shop before he left us in this world.

He truly lived a full life.

Here's more:

Gordon Parks, a photographer, filmmaker and poet whose pioneering chronicles of the black experience in America made him a revered elder and a cultural icon, died yesterday at his home in New York. He was 93.

His nephew, Charles Parks of Lawrence, Kan., said Parks had cancer and had been in failing health since 1993.

Parks, the son of a dirt farmer, rose from meager beginnings and above recurrent discrimination to walk through doors previously closed to African Americans. He was the first black to work at Life magazine and Vogue, and the first to write, direct and score a Hollywood film, "The Learning Tree" (1969), which was based on a 1963 novel he wrote about his life as a farm boy in Kansas. He also was the director of the 1971 hit movie "Shaft," which opened the way for a host of other black-oriented films.

Elegant and aristocratic with a trademark bushy mustache, his work traversed a vast landscape from poverty and crime to luxury and high fashion. He was a high school dropout turned award-winning photographer who traveled the world, using his camera with deftness and defiance.

"I didn't set out to do all that I did," Parks told an interviewer. "I think there was always fear -- fear of not being educated. All the things I did were done because of the fear of failure."

He was born Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks on Nov. 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kan., the youngest of 15 children. His mother died when he was 16. He then lived with his sister in St. Paul, Minn., for a while before he struck out on his own. He left school and took on a number of jobs, including as a pianist with an all-white band and with the Civilian Conservation Corps.

While working on the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 1930s, Parks picked up a magazine that had been left by a passenger and leafed through it. A photo spread of migrant workers and their living conditions taken by Carl Mydans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn and others working for the Farm Security Administration captivated him.

One afternoon in the winter of 1937, during a stopover in Chicago, he saw newsreel footage taken by Norman Alley of the sinking of the USS Panay by Japanese forces. Parks compared Alley's documentary approach with the works of Farm Security Administration photographers and had an epiphany.

"Suddenly I became aware of all the things I could say through this medium," he once said. "I sat through another show, and even before I left the theater, I had made up my mind to become a professional photographer."

He paid $12.50 for his first camera, a Voigtlander Brilliant, at a pawnshop. His camera was "my weapon against poverty and racism," he said.

Soon he was photographing eye-catching young black women in fashion spreads for a St. Paul department store.

In 1942, he began working in Washington at the Farm Security Administration, the agency created to call attention to produce a historical record of social and cultural conditions across the country.

The discrimination that he experienced in the city left him raw. During this period, he took what became one of his signature photographs, a picture of Ella Watson, a cleaning woman who worked in the agency's building. He positioned Watson in front of an American flag, a broom in one hand and a mop in the other. He named the picture "American Gothic, Washington, D.C." The photograph captured his style of focusing on one particular person to illustrate a broad social theme.

"I never allowed the fact that I experienced bigotry and discrimination to step in the way of doing what I have to do," he once said. "I don't understand why other people let that destroy them."

Parks later went on to Life magazine, where from 1948 to 1968 he covered segregation, crime and other issues. His 1961 photograph of a poor Brazilian boy named Flavio da Silva brought in enough donations to help the family build a house.

St. Clair Bourne, who directed a 2000 HBO documentary on Parks's life, was a young photographer when he first met Parks while covering a civil rights march. He was one of many black filmmakers and photographers who respected Parks for his historical role.

"He educated white people about the black experience, and as an artist he used his skills to do that," Bourne said in a 2000 article in the New York Times. "Today, it would be harder: the lines, political and cultural, have hardened. But when Gordon came along, there was a great deal of ignorance about the real experience of black people."

A self-taught pianist, he composed Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1953) and Tree Symphony (1967). In 1989, he composed and choreographed "Martin," a ballet dedicated to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

His autobiographies were "A Choice of Weapons" (1966), "To Smile in Autumn" (1979), and "Voices in the Mirror" (1990). His poetry anthologies include "A Poet and His Camera" (1968), "Arias of Silence" (1994) and "Glimpses Toward Infinity" (1996).

In 1998, Parks donated 227 pieces of his work to the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

He was married and divorced three times. Survivors include three children.

Freedom, Parks said, was the theme of all of his work: "Not allowing anyone to set boundaries, cutting loose the imagination and then making the new horizons."

I've added a new gallery for Prong and a few pics from my photo shoot with Eyes of Fire, actually it wasn't really a traditional photo shoot just some shots I took of the band after there gig...

The new 24-7 SPYZ cd "Face the Day" is getting a lot of iPod rotation with me. It's there 1st album in almost 10 years and I'm heavily endorsing it (go cop!) You can get to there site from my links page...

I'll update the blog again sometime this week with more photos and a cool project I have coming up...

A few people have asked for my rates...

A basic studio/on location shoot will run you $300.00 for 2 hours and $150.00 each additional hour...e-mail or call me and I can get into more detail...

peace
SS

Hey,

I'm listening to Brian Eno as I type this blog, the man is a genius...If you haven't heard "Ambient1/Music for Airports" you must go pick it up NOW! your ears will love you for it.

ENO is GOD!

I just got in from the Prong show...I'm not sure who promoted this gig, but whoever it was did a s**t job...I could get more into that but what's the point.

Prong sounded amazing, I haven't seen them since 93' when they opened for the Bad Brains...I hope this new lineup stays together, it would be cool to hear some studio material from them...It was good to see Tommy Victor & Co. still making noise. I'll have photos up from the gig shortly.

Eyes of Fire opened the show...best live band I've seen in ages, and I go to a lot of shows, so ya know I'm not just blowing smoke. If they come through your town go check them out and you'll see what I'm ranting about. I got some photos with the band after there set, I'll have a link to the story and photos when it's been published. There new album "Prisons" was released a few weeks ago. Go pick it up "It's fucking brilliant!" You can get to there site from my links page. Shout out to Matt (your the shit bro!) Thanks for the free swag (I'm dig'n the "Eyes of Chaos" kicks!)

Before I go watch "Two for the Money" let me just say my daughter who just turned 3 is the most brilliant and gorgeous child on the planet...this kid is a prodigy. I've got a few photos I'm going to put up from her B-Day party.

The rest of the week I'm shooting, Trivium on the 22nd (today), Bedouin Soundclash on the 23rd and Napalm Death on the 25th...

On deck: Orange Sky and Soulive photos, if I have time I'll put a few up tomorrow...

peace
SS

I put up a few photos from the "Suicide City" photo shoot...I had a such a blast doing that...

I'm beat, going to catch some zzzz's

peace