Rock photographer’s gallery attracts music lovers to New Jersey seaside city

ASBURY PARK, N.J., Aug 17 (Reuters) – Danny Clinch has photographed or filmed lots of the most well-known musicians of recent instances – and his a long time of labor are on show in Asbury Park, the New Jersey seaside city made well-known by Bruce Springsteen.

Clinch’s images – and an annual music competition – draw music lovers to his immersive Clear Clinch Gallery a block from the Jersey Shore city’s boardwalk.

“We began it about 5 years in the past,” stated Clinch, 58. “It is change into a gathering place for artists in Asbury Park and musicians in Asbury and truly all around the nation and other people from all around the world who love music and artwork, and who love Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Patti Smith, all the parents which are right here on the partitions.”

The Grammy Award-nominated photographer and filmmaker received his begin interning for famed American photographer Annie Leibovitz. He went on to {photograph} nearly each well-known musician one can consider: Bob Dylan, Tupac Shakur, Johnny Money, Blind Melon, Phish, Inexperienced Day, Stevie Nicks, Beastie Boys, Radiohead – and the record goes on and on.

Clinch’s gallery, which was presupposed to have been a brief pop-up, is right here to remain.

“We moved our enterprise from New York Metropolis to Asbury Park,” he stated. “We have now household down right here. We have now associates right here. We’re a block from the ocean.

“And I’m one of many founding companions of the Sea.Hear.Now Pageant, and that is been happening for 5 years. We have had 4 reveals. We misplaced one to COVID. We really feel very lucky.”

The music competition, scheduled for Sept. 17-18, can be headlined by Stevie Nicks and Inexperienced Day.

“It is all the time such a good time, and we actually get pleasure from it,” Clinch stated.

He stated folks had come into the gallery earlier than the upcoming competition and tried to get him to inform them who the headliners can be earlier than they have been introduced. After being pressed, Clinch stated, he informed them he’d give them a touch.

“They’re like, ‘Yeah, yeah.’ And I stated, ‘Their pictures are hanging on this room, and they’re headlining the competition.’

“And the reality was, Inexperienced Day’s over there. And Stevie Nicks is over there.”

Reporting by Roselle Chen; Modifying by Jonathan Oatis

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