Marching band members perform at night, with a tuba player in focus during an outdoor stadium event.

Marching & Pep Band 2025

There is a kind of joy that is impossible to fake.


You see it in a kid who has found their thing, the moment when the music stops being something they are learning and starts being something they are living, loving. I have watched that happen with my own children, and I can tell you: nothing compares to it.


Photographing them has been one of the great gifts of my life.


The marching band is one of the places where they are the most themselves. There is discipline in it, and teamwork, and real artistry. Underneath all of that, there is just pure happiness. The kind that shows up in a face without permission. That is what I am always chasing with the camera. Not the performance. The joy inside of it.


These photos are my attempt to hold onto something I know is moving fast.

Marching band members perform on a football field at night, playing tubas in uniform before packed bleachers.
Marching band performs on football field at night with colorful uniforms and crowd in bleachers.
Marching band performing on a football field at night in black uniforms with brass instruments and drums.
Marching band performs on football field at night with gold and black uniforms and colorful flags.
Marching band performs on football field at night, featuring brass instruments and drummers in black uniforms.
High school marching band performs on football field at night, wearing black and gold uniforms with colorful flags.
Marching band members in black uniforms playing sousaphones and brass instruments during a performance.
Marching band performs on football field at night, featuring tuba players and percussion section in black uniforms.
Black and white photo of a marching band member playing a sousaphone in uniform on a field.
Marching band members in black uniforms play sousaphones and brass instruments on a track field during a night performance.