IleSoniq 2022 | Recap | Montreal Event Photographer

Back for its 7th full edition (+1 redux edition last year), Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau EDM festival, IleSoniq, brought in 60,000+ dancing fans over its 3 days. I’ve covered every year of IleSoniq since it began its EDM domination back in 2014. To see how big it has grown is really cool, considering the under 10k… Continue reading IleSoniq 2022 | Recap | Montreal Event Photographer

Ilesoniq Redux 2021

Not sure how to put into words the feeling of being at one of our major outdoor festivals again. It has been a little over 2 years for me. The last outdoor festival I worked at was Ilesoniq back in August 2019. Ilesoniq Redux, a slimmed down version where concert go-ers are set in 500… Continue reading Ilesoniq Redux 2021

IleSoniq 2019 recap | Montreal Concert Photographer

Hard to believe that IleSoniq is only in it’s 6th year (and also my 6th year of being an official festival photographer). Montreal’s EDM festival has steadily grown each year, attracting bigger names and bigger crowds. 78,000 fans flocked to the newly revamped site. 78,000. That’s 39,000 a day (I r gooder at math). Compared… Continue reading IleSoniq 2019 recap | Montreal Concert Photographer

IleSoniq 2017 recap | Montreal Concert Photographer

The yearly EDM festival IleSoniq has come and gone for 2017.  And it was another year of music, dancing and people going crazy at Parc Jean-Drapeau!  I’ve been lucky enough to have been a festival photographer since it’s beginnings, going from the smallest stages hidden in the woods, covering the main stage’s fireworks and huge… Continue reading IleSoniq 2017 recap | Montreal Concert Photographer

IleSoniq – views of the main stage | Montreal Concert Photographer

After so many years of photographing concerts, from small clubs to 40,000 arenas, I finally got the go by my client to cover the main stage of a major festival at IleSoniq this year.  It wasn’t expected (I have only been hired by Evenko to cover their main festivals for 3 years – this being… Continue reading IleSoniq – views of the main stage | Montreal Concert Photographer

6 things I learned shooting EDM | Montreal Concert Photographer

I have photographed DJs before.  While EDM/electro (whatever you want to call it) is not my scene, I always found it a challenge breaking out of my comfort zone and try to output the best images I can.  But they were always bigger name artists that were on stage and I had the typical 3… Continue reading 6 things I learned shooting EDM | Montreal Concert Photographer