James Marcus Haney (born April 7, 1988 in
Upland, CA) is an American
photographer
A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographe ...
and
filmmaker.
Career
Haney's career as a music photographer and documentary filmmaker began with sneaking into music festivals. In 2010 Haney snuck into
Coachella Music Festival
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly called the Coachella Festival or simply Coachella) is an annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert ...
by creating a fake wristband and buying a vintage
USC
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* University of South Carolina, a public research university
** University of South Carolina System, the main university and its satellite campuses
**South Carolina Gamecocks, the school athletic program
* University of ...
camera.
The security guards at
Coachella took one look at his wristband and camera and let him in. Since then, Haney has snuck into over fifty festivals and events, including
Bonnaroo,
Glastonbury
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and
The Grammy Awards.
Mumford & Sons asked Haney to join their
Railroad Revival Tour
The Railroad Revival Tour was a music tour that featured popular roots, folk, country, rock, bluegrass and Americana acts in 2011.
The musicians travelled between shows across the American Southwest in 17 vintage train cars from the 1940s, 1950s a ...
in 2011 after seeing Haney's documentary Connaroo, which contained footage of their band at
Bonnaroo.
Within the same year his photo was published in ''
Rolling Stone
''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first kno ...
''.
His most recent documentary, ''No Cameras Allowed
'' follows his adventures of sneaking into festivals. To this day, Haney has never paid to go to a music festival.
Haney is now
Mumford & Sons official photographer
and is on tour in Australia for his now cult film ''No Cameras Allowed'',
which is being screened exclusively by Jack Daniel's Future Legends.
Documentaries
* ''No Cameras Allowed'' (2014)
* ''Austin to Boston'' (2014)
Short films
* ''Breaking the Triangle'' (2015)
* ''Spin Magazine – Backstage Pass: Mumford & Sons'' (2011)
* ''Folks of Far Away: The Faroe Islands'' (2011)
* ''San Fermin Running of the Bulls'' (2010)
Music videos
*
Mumford & Sons – Woman (2019)
* Boys Off Work – The Ruminaters (2018)
* Bad Bad Things – The Ruminaters (2017)
*
Coldplay – ''
Birds
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
'' (2016)
*
Coldplay – ''
A Head Full of Dreams'' (2016)
*
Mumford & Sons – ''
The Wolf'' (2015)
*
Bear's Den
Bear's Den (also called by the name of its most outstanding landmark, Bear's Den Falls – ''Elysium'' (2014)
*
The Staves
The Staves are an English indie folk trio of sisters Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor from Watford, Hertfordshire, England.
Career
The Staves began performing together at open-mic nights in Watford hosted by a local pub, The Horns. ...
– ''Facing West'' (2013)
*
Foy Vance – ''Joy of Nothing'' (2013)
*
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, pianist and composer. Commonly nicknamed the "Rocket Man" after his 1972 hit single of the same name, John has led a commercially successful career a ...
- ''Mexican Vacation (Kids In The Candlelight)'' (2013)
*
Deap Vally
Deap Vally are an American rock duo, formed in Los Angeles, California in 2011. The group consists of Lindsey Troy (guitar, vocals) and Julie Edwards (drums and vocals). They have released three albums, an EP and a number of singles. Both album ...
– ''End of the World'' (2012)
*
Young the Giant – ''Apartment'' (2012)
References
External links
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American photographers
American documentary filmmakers
1988 births
Living people