Jérôme Brunet was born in southern France and raised in Ontario, Canada. His passion for music began at the age of four, when he started studying as a classical cellist for ten years before moving on to the guitar. He continues to play guitar to this day.
Jérôme displayed an early talent in the visual arts, studying the discipline in high school before completing a formal education in photography at the prestigious E.F.E.T. School of Photography in Paris, France.
Jérôme’s award-winning photography has been published internationally in such publications as Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Time, Billboard, Popular Photography, American Photo, Guitar World, Smithsonian and The New York Times. His client list includes Leica, Nikon, Fender, Gibson, John Varvatos, AEG, Warner Bros. Records and he has collaborated with the non-profit organizations Unicef, Rock for MS, T.J. Martell Foundation, John Varvatos Stuart House Benefit and the Recording Academy's MusiCares. Jérôme is currently based in Las Vegas
Awards:
2018 - Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize finalist
2018 - International Photography Awards nominee
2018 - Graphis Photo Annual Merit Award winner
2017 - Graphis Photo Annual Silver Award winner
2016 - International Photography Awards nominee
2015 - PDN Faces portrait contest Award winner
2015 - Graphis Photo Annual Silver Award winner
2014 - Analogue Gallery Sound Image 1st place winner
2014 - Graphis Photo Annual Merit Award winner
2013 - International Photography Awards nominee
2013 - PDN Ultimate Music Moment contest winner
2012 - International Photo Awards 1st place winner
2012 - Graphis Photo Annual Gold Award winner
2011 - Worldwide Photography Gala Awards winner
2010 - PDN Ultimate Music Moment Contest winner
2009 - International Photography Awards nominee
2008 - PDN/Billboard Summer Music Moment winner
2007 - Black and White Spider Awards nominee
2006 - AI+AP American Photography winner
Classic photograph by Jérôme Brunet of Blues legend B.B. King performing live at the Fox Theater in Oakland
87 year old guitar legend B.B. King onstage at the sold-out Golden State Theatre in Monterey, California in February 2013
Bruce Springsteen onstage at the Oracle Arena, Oakland in 2016
Carlos Santana live at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California in September 2011
Punk legends Iggy Pop & the Stooges perform live at the S2SV, Silicon Valley's Music & Technology Festival, in San Jose in September 2013
James Brown performing live at the Palais des Congres in Paris, June 2006
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd performing The Wall live at the Oracle Arena, Oakland, California in December 2010
Drummer Ringo Starr of The Beatles performs live with his All Strarr Band at City National Civic Auditorium, San Jose, California in 2014
Roger Daltery & Pete Townshend of The Who live at the Desert Trip Festival, Indio, California in October 2016
In the studio in Santa Monica, California in 1980, Bob Dylan is captured whilst leaning on his guitar case.
Angus Young, from AC/DC, captured in a small street outside a press meeting in Copenhagen in 1977
Shooting promotional films for the singles Rain & Paperback Writer at Chiswick Park Gardens in May 1966
This photo session was for No.1 Magazine (long since extinct) on a Eurythmics press day, they’d been doing interviews all day.
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