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BANDS: Feel free to use my photos on your website or Myspace, but please do not crop out my watermark. A link to my website, www.bwuphoto.com, is always appreciated as well.

I'm a live music photographer in the Washington, DC area - check out my work at Flickr, where I always upload my most recent shots. I've shot everything from Britney Spears to U2 to extreme metal to avant-garde jazz.

My photos usually make their way into the Washington City Paper's music blog, Black Plastic Bag. I also run a music review website, Ground and Sky, focusing on progressive and avant-garde rock, jazz and metal.

Drop me a line if your band is in DC, or stopping in DC on your tour, and you'd like some photos from a gig or a quick promo shoot. (Yes, I make it out to the burbs and occasionally Baltimore as well.) I tend to focus on the experimental and edgy in all genres, but I'll attend and photograph (and enjoy!) pretty much any kind of show.

A sample of some of my better recent photos - first, two from The Dillinger Escape Plan at Rock & Roll Hotel in Washington, DC on June 11, 2009 (full set):

Two from The Decemberists at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD on June 8, 2009 (full set):

One from The Haunted and one from The Agonist at Jaxx in Springfield, VA on April 22, 2009 (full set):

Two from Abigail Williams at Jaxx in Springfield, VA on February 4, 2009 (full set):

Two from Metallica at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC on January 15, 2008 (full set):

A couple of Jucifer at Volume 11 Tavern in Raleigh, NC on November 29, 2008 (full set):

A couple of Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls, at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC on November 18, 2008 (full set):

Two from Watain doing their Satanic black metal thing at Jaxx in Springfield, VA on Halloween night 2008 (full set):

Here are two from Kamelot, headlining at Jaxx on Thursday, October 16, 2008 (full set):

One of Virgin Black and one of Samael, two metal bands opening for Amorphis at, yet again, Jaxx, on Sunday, September 28, 2008:

Here are a couple of Scottish post-rockers Mogwai at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC on Wednesday, September 17, 2008:

From a couple days before, here's one of Canadian metal group Unexpect and one of Japanese black metal legends Sigh from a show at (where else) Jaxx on Monday, September 15, 2008:

Here's one of Behold... the Arctopus, and one of Salome, a DC-area doom metal band, playing at DC9 in Washington, DC, on Sunday, August 10, 2008:

And a couple from a gig by Japanese psych-rockers Boris at the Black Cat in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, July 8, 2008:

And, finally, a couple from a great show a month earlier - Wilco guitarist Nels Cline with his Nels Cline Singers trio at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Virgina, on Friday, June 6, 2008: