Alan Messer
Grammy award winner, Alan Messer has been photographing musicians for five decades. His career started at sixteen in 1967, working from Dezo Hoffmann's London studio as a freelance and staff photographer for the Record Mirror, pop magazine.
During the 70s, Alan was the resident Old Grey Whistle Test photographer (BBC TV), a tour Photographer for Iggy Pop and Deep Purple, and photographed many visiting touring American bands/artists, in his London studio or on the road. Excited by America and it's music, Alan moved to Nashville in 1978 to open a studio. An amazing opportunity to photograph the country music scene unfolded with legendary artists like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings.
About Messer
During the ’80s, Alan Messer was a primary Nashville Photographer, often shooting a session or an album cover every day, some of those sessions were in Austin with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Willie Nelson, and Joe Ely. Alan's British style of photography attracted musicians and record companies, he has hundreds of albums and CD's to his credit and a Grammy for album packaging photography/design.
Currently, Alan is working on exhibition prints and book projects, plus some album packages. He is passionate about photography and always carries a camera. Recently, some of Alan’s photographs were featured in Ken Burn’s PBS documentary, “Country Music” and a Johnny Cash documentary.
