Jérôme Brunet
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Jérôme Brunet

B. Award-Winning Music Photographer • Los Angeles
Jérôme Brunet
Portrait of the photographer
Biography

Jérôme Brunet was born in southern France and raised in Ontario, Canada. His relationship with music began at age four, when he started studying classical cello. After ten years, he moved on to guitar, an instrument he continues to play today. His early talent in the visual arts led him to study photography at the prestigious E.F.E.T. School of Photography in Paris.

Brunet’s award-winning photography has appeared internationally in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Time, Billboard, Smithsonian, Guitar World and The New York Times. His clients include Leica, Nikon, Fender, Gibson, John Varvatos, AEG and Warner Bros. Records.

He has also collaborated with charitable organizations including UNICEF, Rock for MS, the T.J. Martell Foundation, the John Varvatos Stuart House Benefit and the Recording Academy’s MusiCares. Jérôme is based in Los Angeles, and his work is represented by fine-art galleries around the world.

Selected career exhibitions

Career Exhibitions

A selected record of museum and gallery presentations from Jérôme Brunet's career.

Type
Title
Venue
Year
Exhibition
Icons: Photographs by Jérôme Brunet
The Space@Icon, Los Angeles, California
2025
Exhibition
Players & Pickers
Adler Smith Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2024
Group Show
1st Annual Photo Book Exhibition
Los Angeles Center of Photography, Hollywood, Los Angeles
2019
Group Show
Common Threads II — Official MOPLA Exhibition
Angel City Brewery, Los Angeles, California
2019
Moving image & archive

Films, Interviews
& Television

Documentaries, recorded interviews and television appearances from the archive.

Jerome Brunet Photographer at Norman's Rare Guitars
Interview

Jerome Brunet Photographer at Norman's Rare Guitars

Interview2016

Sin acceso al transcript, usaría este excerpt breve y seguro: > A brief conversation with award-winning music photographer Jérôme Brunet at Norman’s Rare Guitars, bringing together his lifelong passions for photography, music and the guitar.

Selected Press

In the press.

Abbey Road Studios

Photographer Spotlight: An Interview With Jérôme Brunet

Abbey Road Studios speaks with Brunet about his shortlisted Live Music Photography Award image, his visual approach and the power of photographing performances from an unexpected perspective.

Guitar World

New Photo Book ‘Into the Light’ Features B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Slash and More

Guitar World presents Brunet’s twenty-year retrospective and a selection of his favorite guitar-centered photographs, accompanied by the photographer’s own recollections of the performances.

Fstoppers

Into The Light: The Music Photography of Jérôme Brunet

An in-depth review of Brunet’s retrospective, examining its presentation, signature live-performance portraiture, foreword by Steve Miller and importance as a visual history of modern music.

Musée Magazine

Book Review: Into The Light

Musée Magazine reviews Brunet’s monograph as a meeting point between music and photography, tracing how his musical background shaped the energy, timing and emotional force of his images.

Music Connection

Book Review: Into The Light: The Music Photography of Jérôme Brunet

Music Connection highlights the book’s exceptional ability to capture performers at the emotional peak of a song, bringing together legends of blues, soul and contemporary rock.

Los Angeles Center of Photography

LACP Interviews Jérôme Brunet

A concise career interview covering Brunet’s photojournalistic background, Paris training, two decades in music photography and his guiding ambition to capture the soul of a performance.