Gino Carlini

US photographer from Detroit. Started his professional concert photography career at age 17 with the band Tesla. Since early 1980’s take live photos of artists such David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, KISS, Def Leppard, Tesla and INXS. From 1987 to 1991 focused in world tours of Tesla, Testament, and many others, he has been published in music magazines like Burrn, Rolling Stone, Kerrang, RIP, Metal Hammer, and being published in tour books, Cd booklets,Posters,and music books. In 1992, Gino decided to change things up a bit & moved to New York City. Continuing to work in the music industry. In 1997 he traveled back to his hometown Detroit to work as key still photographer on the indie film “Corrupted Minds (aka Detroit)”. He spent 3 months working on the film and then the rest of year traveling, plus photographing the band Corrosion of Conformity who were the support on the band Metallica’s American tour. In 2001, Gino was asked to once again join the band Tesla on the road for their much anticipated reunion tour. In 2002 Gino moved into the field of architectural photography. Throughout 2010-2017 he has photographed several music artists including Alice Cooper, Metallica, Whitesnake, Rush, Peter Gabriel, KISS, Filter, Our Lady Peace, Bush, Slash, Janes Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthrax, Slayer, Shinedown, and Testament. He did an extensive photo session with Richard Patrick and his band Filter for their publicity photos which were shown on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. In Feb 2012 he did all the photography for the album “Dark Roots of Earth” from the band Testament in New York City. Nine versions of this album with his photography have been produced, including 6 different colored vinyl albums. It was #12 on the Billboard charts and became Itunes most downloaded Heavy Metal Album of 2012. As for 2017 and beyond, Carlini is concentrating more on his Landscape, Travel and Astrophotography. Selling Archival Prints of his past and present images and also planning on some future exhibitions of his work.