Lana Del Ray to Amy Winehouse: Bryan Adams is a globally famous rock star by night, by day celebrated portrait photographer to the stars
Bryan Adams is best known as the
Canadian rocker responsible for such hits as Run To You, Summer Of ’69
and the record-breaking (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, which topped
the British charts for 16 consecutive weeks in 1991 and sold more than
eight million copies worldwide.
In a career spanning more than 30 years he has notched up sales of 100 million records, played huge arenas across the globe and been nominated for no fewer than 15 Grammy awards.
In the past decade Adams has added another string to his bow, as a celebrated portrait photographer of the stars.
His interest in photography began in the Sixties when he began using his English-born parents’ Kodak Instamatic cameras and a small Bell & Howell Super 8 film camera.
In the Seventies he recalls nabbing an Agfa camera sent to his mother by an uncle who worked for a British company that produced black-and-white film and printing paper.
‘The first photos I made were on that camera,’ he says, ‘with the subjects ranging from the Beach Boys in concert, parking lot walls, my girlfriend in the bath, my mum, my piano and random things that surrounded me.’
In the late Seventies, as his music career began to take off, Adams bought a Polaroid SX-70 and then a Canon AE-1, on which he captured life as a touring musician.
Then came the chance encounter that would change his life.
In a career spanning more than 30 years he has notched up sales of 100 million records, played huge arenas across the globe and been nominated for no fewer than 15 Grammy awards.
In the past decade Adams has added another string to his bow, as a celebrated portrait photographer of the stars.
His interest in photography began in the Sixties when he began using his English-born parents’ Kodak Instamatic cameras and a small Bell & Howell Super 8 film camera.
In the Seventies he recalls nabbing an Agfa camera sent to his mother by an uncle who worked for a British company that produced black-and-white film and printing paper.
‘The first photos I made were on that camera,’ he says, ‘with the subjects ranging from the Beach Boys in concert, parking lot walls, my girlfriend in the bath, my mum, my piano and random things that surrounded me.’
In the late Seventies, as his music career began to take off, Adams bought a Polaroid SX-70 and then a Canon AE-1, on which he captured life as a touring musician.
Then came the chance encounter that would change his life.
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