>>2687661Most venues will allow photography but you need a photo pass. For these gigs, I email the venue, explain I am a freelance photographer, will be attending a concert there (I buy my tix) and would like to be given a photo pass. Some have this policy, for example at The Echo/Echoplex in L.A. you can go thru them and you just need to sign a release when you get there... not even sure what it says, to be honest, I think it's basically that the venue can use your images.
With bigger acts I look online for their publicist or tour manager and contact them directly, send sample of my concert photography and state I will allow them to use images in social media for just credit. Just like The Echo, I buy my own ticket. There has been times when it comes from them that I will be on the list and not to buy a ticket.
Other venues don't give a fuck about photography except when the artist is a bigger act that wants to control or authorize it. For example Neutral Milk Hotel does not allow photography in their shows, they don't give passes, the venue is plastered with signs forbidding even phone photography and security was on top of shit. (Pic related).
