JOHN GELLMAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Hi. I'm John Gellman, a photographer based in Asheville, North Carolina. While I'm known mostly as a music photographer, I consider myself to be a portrait photographer searching for decisive moments in almost any situation. I'll shoot anything that looks cool, including landscapes, but generally, not critters. I find critters difficult to work with because they usually don't follow instructions. I have shot a lot of musicians. They are accustomed to working with others and generally follow instructions very well... Legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was a major influence on me, coined the phrase "the decisive moment" and was always in search of those. Another legendary photographer who was a major influence , Robert Frank, gave up searching for decisive moments and instead captured moments that he said he didn't fully understand. For myself, I look for decisive moments I don't understand.