Van Halen — Eddie Van Halen
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For four decades, Ross Halfin has been among the world’s foremost photographers. Having studied fine art at the Wimbledon School Of Art during the 1970s, Ross had planned to be a painter but found art college too pretentious and creatively stifling.
Halfin got into music photography almost by accident, sneaking his cameras into concerts by the likes of The Who, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Man and Free. Because Sounds, Melody Maker and the NME were interested in the punk scene Ross also shot The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Jam, Adam Ant, The Adverts, The Specials and Blondie, but he preferred bands with bigger, more eye-catching stage shows and rock stars who looked and behaved as such. He would spend the following decades travelling the world with such heavyweights as Metallica, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Guns N’ Roses, Kiss, and Mötley Crüe in his viewfinder, and also worked as an official tour photographer for Paul McCartney, George Harrison and The Who amongst numerous others.
Halfin has also shot album and singles sleeves, tour programmes, posters, countless magazine covers (his iconic image of AC/DC’s Angus Young graced Kerrang! issue #1) – in fact just about anything that you could name. Basically, he’s been there, done it.
WHY THIS PURCHASE MATTERS
Every piece in the Fundraising Gallery does double duty: it brings home a museum-quality work of art, and a portion of every sale goes directly to STAR Network Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Your support helps keep the lights on for free, trauma-informed recovery — so survivors of toxic and abusive relationships can find their way out of the fog and into the light. Because if you don't break the cycle of family trauma, the family trauma will break you. Art that gives back. From scars to STARs.
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