Abbey Road Music Photography Awards to Honor Anton Corbijn

Dutch photographer, filmmaker, and music video director Anton Corbijn might be introduced with the Icon Award on the annual Abbey Road Music Photography Awards.

Corbijn has photographed quite a few notable topics over the course of his 40-plus-year pictures profession, together with Tom Waits, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Ian Curtis, Clint Eastwood, Bryan Adams, Cameron Diaz, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Joni Mitchell, Robert De Niro, Gerhard Richter, Ai Weiwei, and Lucian Freud. He is taken into account to be the home photographer for U2 and Depeche Mode, and has shot each artists for a number of a long time. He has directed music movies for artists like U2, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, Metallica, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Arcade Fire, Coldplay, and The Killers.

“Photographing musicians was a love that became a full-on mission in the early ‘70s,” Corbijn stated in a press release. “From hanging around the front of the stage to being 100 percent in charge, it’s been an exciting place to be. I like to think I evolved over the years, but I am still excited by music and photographing musicians now and then. To receive recognition from a body that contains the name of Abbey Road and with some of my peers as judges, I can only be grateful! Thank you!”

Abbey Road’s Director of Marketing & Creative, Mark Robertson, added, “Anton Corbijn’s work has been part of the cultural fabric of modern music for over five decades. His photography doesn’t just document — it defines, it innovates, and it inspires artists, fans and photographers alike. At Abbey Road, we’re thrilled to celebrate a true icon whose artistry continues to influence.”

Previous winners of the Icon Award, chosen by the Music Photography Awards’ judging panel, embody Jill Furmanovsky in 2024, Henry Diltz in 2023, and Eric Johnson in 2022. This 12 months’s judging panel embody Rankin, Nile Rodgers, Eric Burton, Joe Keery, Scarlet Page, Dimitri From Paris, Julia Cumming, and Simon Wheatley.

Abbey Road Music Photography Awards might be held at Abbey Road Studios in London on Oct. 2. The awards had been based in 2022 and span quite a few classes, most of that are open for public entry. Last 12 months, the Abbey Road Music Photography Awards attracted greater than 22,000 entries from 30 totally different international locations. This 12 months’s awards will function two new classes: Portrait and Festivals. Nominees for the remaining classes might be introduced in September.