Student Artist Spotlight: Keegan Huey-Woods

Anyone who’s ever been to a concert will tell you that the experience is like no other. The feeling of togetherness and excitement that music brings out in us really only shows itself in full at the foot of the stage. It’s about more than just the music, it’s the atmosphere, and that’s what Keegan Huey-Woods attempts to capture in his photography.

“I’m trying to relive the experience based off the photos I take” Keegan says. As a sophomore who started photography last year, Huey-Woods is moving into the bigger pond of concert photography. Recently, he got special access to shoot photos of the band Saint Motel in the Crystal Ballroom.

“I was so close - close to the point I could have reached out and touched them.” Keegan said. “The show itself was electric. It’s one of the best shows I’ve been to and I’ve been to forty-five concerts.” Keegan originally became interested in art through his dad, who is a musician and involved in a radio program. “I can look at things and appreciate them a lot more.” He says. It’s given him a different view on art that has created new respect for it, leading to the central focus of his photography.

“I just want people to look at the pictures I take and have a reaction, positive or negative.” He says, “I want to be able to show or portray emotion in way you can’t interpret, you just have to see it.” The goal of art, for Keegan, is to evoke an emotion, and it reflects in his work. “The more you work, the better things get.”

Below are some of the photographs Keegan took at the Saint Motel Concert on April 4th, 2015.