Veteran photographer Richard Beland tells us about the stories behind 10 of his most striking snaps
If you’ve attended a major rock concert in Toronto at any point over the past 35 years, then you’ve probably seen Richard Beland. Or, at least, the back of his head. Since 1986, the veteran photographer has been a stage front fixture. He’s captured music’s biggest names in action, while also being granted exclusive access to the inner sanctums of notoriously secretive bands like Rush and The Tragically Hip.
With over 3,000 shows under his belt, Beland is opening up his archive this month to display 55 images at a career retrospective at Yorkville’s Liss Gallery. Here, he tells us about the stories behind 10 of his most striking snaps.Ken Tizzard rang me on my birthday—this is before he was the bassist for The Watchmen; at the time he was working formagazine. I was in my second year at Fanshawe studying photography and his sister Paula was in my class, so we made a connection.
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