There's a particular kind of focus that happens on a stage right before a musician plays the first note. After years photographing Guitar Art Festival, I've learned to find it. This body of work moves between the roar of a full concert hall and the stillness of an empty room during a soundcheck. Capturing artists like Tommy Emmanuel and Vlatko Stefanovski not just performing, but existing inside their music. Some of these images are loud. Others were taken in near silence, five minutes before anyone else arrived. Every one of these artists is a reminder that music makes its own kind of moment, if you're paying attention.
