Kirk West & Jay Blakesberg in conversation

Gallery West – Macon Georgia’s Premiere Rock and Roll Photography Gallery is pleased to present a one night – Pop Up exhibit and fireside gallery chat with Renowned San Francisco Photographer Jay Blakesberg.

Gallery West will be displaying 20 classic images from Blakesberg’s 40+ year career photographing Rock and Roll!

Gallery West will also host a sit down conversation between Blakesberg and Kirk West, Gallery West founder and long time Allman Brother’s Band photographer at 7 pm and have a 75 minute discussion about the in’s and out’s of photographing the Allman Brothers Band, the Grateful Dead, and many other iconic rock, blues and folk icons. This conversation will bring the attendees on the road, onstage, backstage, and behind the scenes with stories about how the photographs were created!

Today, Blakesberg is one of the music industry’s most sought-after rock photographers, known for capturing the explosive energy of the live music experience as well as the intimate moments of one-on-one portrait photography. Most significantly, Blakesberg is a preeminent fixture on the jam band scene whose body of work in this arena makes up a comprehensive photographic archive of the modern psychedelic rock-and-roll tribe that began 50 years ago in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.

This is a free event beginning at 7PM. There will be free refreshments, wine, beer, soft drinks and appetizers.