Forever ago (a year or two?) I interviewed Arctic Monkeys for Pitchfork. While it has yet to run, I pretty much did it just to take portraits of them. See, they won’t just schedule photoshoots. No – they’ll schedule interview, but not shoots, no matter how casual. And I wanted photos of them! I still covet the first time I shot portraits of them way back in 2005. So I did an interview and broached photos to them in-person, which they were down for. Well, finally a shot from my most recent set has seen the light of day care of a Pitchfork tour update.

Actually, I first started contributing to Pitchfork when by way of an Arctic Monkeys photo from that first set that they ran along a news story right after the bassist left uncredited. I contacted them and after a few months of back and forth, I started contributing regularly, eventually making the staff page.

Oh, memories…