I first met Marcos Huerta a bit over a year ago. Marcos was kind enough to take a few photos of us in action. He gave me his card and I was so impressed with the photos he took of us that I decided to book him for a photo shoot of the band. That photo shoot took place on the streets of Downtown Santa Ana. The product of which became the majority of the photography that adorned our website and our Trap Doors EP that was released in June of last year. Marcos has since then continued to practice his photography under the brand name of HipHazard Photography.
However, one cannot help but wonder if there may be an underlying calculated approach. He has a gifted ability to capture and communicate through his images the passion and raw atmosphere of the live shows and musicians he chooses as his subjects.
Something that seems to have been lost in many of the images of the mainstream musicians one sees in the music magazines of today. Marcos was kind enough to meet with me on a Saturday morning in Downtown Santa Ana to talk about himself and his work. I went to school at Taft elementary, then Greenville and Macarthur. I went to high school at Saddleback graduated in and then moved on to OCC Orange Coast College where I unfortunately dropped out [laughs nervously].
I took one class and then I thought I could do it on my own so I dropped out [laughs nervously again]. However, I sucked at painting.
I mean it was really bad. The camera, on the other hand, came easy. I just look at something and take a picture. So it was in that you took up photography. And at first it was more of hobby I guess, right? Yeah pretty much. It still is. Originally, HipHazard was intended to be a magazine. It was going to be the magazine title. And well, I needed a group of devoted people to really get this going which at the time I did not have.
