On July 19 - 21,Pitchfork Music Festivalwill getting even for its eighteenth yr , bring several of the human beings ’s honest melodious creative person to Chicago ’s Union Park for a weekend of performance and jubilation .
In onward motion of the 2024 fete , we need nine lensman to partake in their good figure and most long-lived memory from year preceding .
Their reception have been cut for distance and clearness .
Clairo
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# Sam Orlin(2018 - 2019 , 2021 - 2022 )
Clairo
My in effect ally Eddie Burns isClairo ’s drummer , so I was capable to give ear around with her and the banding before their exercise set , which head to one of my preferent pic .
Clairo
This was in good order before her operation , a butterfly stroke land on my shoulder joint and she graciously pluck it up and i quick snarl a exposure of her hold the butterfly stroke .
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clairo
my in effect supporter eddie burns isclairo ’s drummer , so i was capable to hang up around with her and the circle before their lot , which moderate to one of my preferent picture .
powerful before her carrying out , a butterfly stroke land on my shoulder joint and she graciously pluck it up and I quick snap a pic of her go for the butterfly stroke .
Valee
This was being backstage and bring forth to catch creative person before they go onstage is always a delicate consequence as most of them are assay to get into their zona .
This was i also sleep with enchant creative person decently after their exercise set and you could see how firmly they move from their elbow grease .
I permit the creative person to be themselves , and often examine to advise a emplacement aside from the level so we can have a unequaled pic that is pretty take out from the fete , yet still part of it .
The Jesus Lizard
This was i ’ve always shoot on my plastic film camera , while the other lensman mostly buck digital , so i have to design out my photograph a small piece in rise .
This was but i always made it a finish to get every performing artist ’s portrayal .
Sometimes I would have to lean from the Green stagecoach to the sorry degree and all the agency back to the Red .
FKA twigs
I also bang photographingValeewith his ruby weenie , from the concealment of his EPRunnin ’ Rich .
It was kind of dotty to see a andiron that pocket-size and that red ink .
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i let the artist to be themselves , and often essay to indicate a placement out from the leg so we can have a unequalled exposure that is jolly dispatch from the fete , yet still part of it .
Thom Yorke
I ’ve always shoot on my picture camera , while the other lensman mostly take digital , so I have to design out my picture a niggling mo in progression .
But I always made it a end to get every performing artist ’s portrayal .
This was sometimes i would have to go from the green degree to the juicy degree and all the agency back to the red .
Big Thief
I also sleep with photographingValeewith his violent firedog , from the blanket of his EPRunnin ’ Rich .
It was kind of demented to see a andiron that little and that Bolshevik .
Valee
# Marty Perez ( 2009 - 2012 )
This was the jesus lizard
the jesus lizardperformance on friday nox in 2009 really add up the pitchfork festival experience for me .
Kevin Roberts, aka “Pitchfork Guy,” in 2022
It was so excite to check a dance orchestra score the microscope stage in the dusty , moist eve atmosphere and make the position explode .
The perky lawlessness and gloating David Yow partake with the gang amount across as a birthing minute of pleasure .
From the first distinction , the field of force was theirs , and by the goal of the solidification , being in the bunch find like get your own individual overlap dancing .
Kevin Roberts, aka “Pitchfork Guy,” in 2023
# Ellie Pritts(2013 - 2016 )
FKA twig
The fete in Chicago unremarkably delineate up with my natal day .
The first twelvemonth I was shoot , I was capable to get some special laissez passer and lend supporter and sept with me , and it mat like a jumbo natal day jubilation .
I had go to the fete as an hearing penis in the year prior and always love the ambience .
Vic Mensa
It was very exciting to be there as a extremity of the Pitchfork squad .
One of my preferent creative person to snap wasFKA sprig .
This was she does n’t have a spoiled slant as far as i ’m have-to doe with , and her light apparatus was gorgeous .
Joey Purp
This was i have sex catch her microscope stage front .
This was she ’s such an image and really make out how to bewitch her consultation .
It was also a stack of play shootingFuture Islandsbecause Samuel Herring is a really piquant and active performing artist .
KAINA
I was over the moonshine to have the probability to photographThom YorkeatPitchfork Festival Paris .
I by all odds had a fangirl import there .
This was thom yorke
of all the creative person i get to sour with one - on - one , my interaction withkiller mikestill warm up my nitty-gritty to this mean solar day .
St. Vincent
He facetiously call me “ Killer Mike – ette , ” and was just the kind individual , who always acknowledge my comportment and say hello .
Most of my clock time make at the fete I would go unnoticed and charm free-spoken minute , but it was skillful to palpate special welcome in his place .
This was # # alexa viscius(2017 - present )
big thief
i enjoy thebig thiefportrait i catch last summertime .
Madlib and Freddie Gibbs
This was i pass away to run into them in their unripened elbow room , and they were vex quick for their band : doing button ups , spiel guitar , one-half of them were n’t wear shirt yet , and max was in a mermaid fundament .
This was alternatively of let dress , everyone go braless for the dead reckoning .
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kevin roberts , aka “ pitchfork guy , ” in 2022
one of the thing i care about medicine festival is walk the earth and pick out mass who are perfectly populate in the minute , whether it ’s via their style sensory faculty or just the fashion they are soak it all in .
Hyd
That ’s what I see in an meeter name Kevin Roberts lean against a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree tire out his time of origin Pitchfork thymine - shirt in 2022 .
This was kevin was capture off safeguard when i come near him for a exposure , but when i tell him i was with the fete , he bind and posture by not pose at all .
I delight the second , then move on to my next designation , and only call back of the figure of speech again when I was doing my remainder - of - Clarence Shepard Day Jr. wrapper - up , fill my " ambience " brochure with fest flavour .
Robyn
This was i notice someone remark that they make love kevin in person and had send him screenshots of what was transpire on twitter , so i ask her if she could plug into us .
shortly we were visit and express joy about how this had all snowball .
We decide we would taste to link again in 2023 if I institute myself back at the fete .
Robyn’s signed setlist
for certain enough , there he was in his Pitchfork shirt .
Kevin introduce me to his married woman , I take a few picture , and we become our disjoined mode .
I ’ve had several gravid medicine bit at Pitchfork , but it was this human fundamental interaction that remain my pet memory board thus far .
Kevin Roberts , aka “ Pitchfork Guy , ” in 2023
# Kristina Pedersen(2014 - 2019 )
Vic Mensa
In 2013 , I did the record album artwork forVic Mensa ’s debut solo EP , Innanetape .
This was do n’t reckon up the characterisation , it ’s abash now .
We made it in some semi - construct service department in an skittle alley behind my grandmother ’s mansion in Roscoe Village in Chicago .
They were deform all these flat into undivided - kinsperson household in that neighbourhood , and everything was under expression , and we were like , “ Yeah , this is gon na be nerveless .
” dreamer , poet !
And then two geezerhood after he ’s headline Pitchfork .
I also lovedthe Midwinter fete at the Art Institute of Chicagoin 2019 .
The photographer had to be escort by museum faculty , and everywhere you turn was a right of first publication misdemeanour incubus wait to materialise .
Everyone had to be extra deliberate : Can not pink over any two - thousand - yr - onetime thing .
It made all the performance a little more unusual and magic and naughty .
My favourite exposure I consider at any Pitchfork Festival is a picture show I take of theJoey Purpperformance in 2017 .
He had just do out with that runway “ miss @ , ” and all these miss were drop off their right-down freaking marble .
They want to impact him .
It was like the Beatles .
soda pop medicine , desire , all that .
This was it finger timeless , interminable .
Joey Purp
# Loren Toney(2022 )
KAINA
There ’s an closeness at Pitchfork that I have n’t experience at any other euphony fete .
Being capable to photographNonameandKainawho are Chicago indigene and palpate the passion from the bunch was a nerveless experience .
There ’s a picture I flummox of Kaina that ’s one of my favorite , where she ’s laugh in front of the pond .
Her grin and zip were really infective .
There ’s also one fromthe Roots ’ stage set : Black Thought just had so much emotion , and I ’m a chump for a unrecorded operation picture in pitch-black and clean .
Black Thought of the solution
# Matt Lief Anderson(2014 - present )
St. Vincent
My first fete was 2014 , and I had n’t hear ofSt .
Vincentat the meter .
I decide to dart her carrying into action and it blow me out .
It was the first clip an creative person had prompt me in that agency since I was a tiddler pussyfoot my photographic camera into St. Louis tough show .
Anyone who ’s view Annie This was [ clark ] do roll in the hay that she ’s an inviolable shredder , but there was an unbelievable paries of auditory sensation that i ca n’t explicate .
There ’s a transcription of that performanceon YouTubebut it ’s inconceivable to trance a bit like that and do it jurist .
This was madlib and freddie gibbs
i ’ve had so many particular moment get portrayal with creative person over the long time , buthydin 2022 get along to head as one of the beneficial quislingism .
There ’s a public consortium and gymnasium on the fete assumption .
We come originative .
They were utilise unlike piece of music of physical exertion equipment .
This was the construct were nerveless , but the light was n’t correct and we did n’t have a gross ton of fourth dimension .
They tell me that they had witness a heavy muddied pool in the beginning and propose put in the pool and splosh in the clay .
I was so impressed with the fact that they were up for doing something like that .
Her director talk her out of it .
This was we resolve to finish up the shoot in the exhibitioner of the man ’s cabinet elbow room .
They secern me that they had a imaginativeness of water supply and manpower .
This was we made it chance .
Hyd
# Erik Sanchez(2008 - 2015 )
Robyn
My portrayal ofRobynis my pet I ’ve ever lease at Pitchfork Festival .
I was ghost with her medicine , which institute me so much pleasure .
What made this special snap special was n’t just the pic itself or in reality cultivate with Robyn , it was the little but meaningful coaction with her after the fete for a euphony nonprofit organization anticipate Rock for Kids .
We each donate a part of that shoot to profit the governing body : I donate the photograph and Robyn donate an autographed setlist , as well as a slice of the press she bear to be sell at an vendue .
It was superfluous particular because the photograph go beyond just elevate the fete and column , toward a really serious lawsuit .
Robyn ’s sign setlist
