About - Dustin Rabin Photography

For 30 years Dustin Rabin has been documenting some of the most influential artists in rock music and has been fortunate enough to have rare access to them on and off stage.

In 2011 Paul McCartney asked Dustin to photograph a leg of his North American tour as well as some private rehearsals in 2017. He’s worked regularly with Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters since 1995, and had the honour of being the only photographer with Nirvana during rehearsals for a one-night-only performance celebrating their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

In addition to his concert photography Dustin is a sought after portrait photographer. His photography has appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone and in the pages of countless CD and DVD packages, magazines and books worldwide. Not to mention the personal collections of many of the people he’s photographed.

Born and raised in Victoria, BC and currently based in Toronto, Canada, Dustin Rabin has achieved many of his life-long dreams in music photography. He continues to photograph artists, direct music videos and travel the world shooting concerts and is looking ahead to new artistic challenges.

30 Years of Rock & Roll Photos and Stories: AlmostFamous.ca
Gallery Representation: Morrison Hotel Gallery.

Dustin's Still Photography (Film & Television) StillDustin.com

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“Amaze-balls.”
– Jack Black, Tenacious D

“I hate all photographers. Especially that Dustin Creep.”
– Mike Patton, Faith No More / Fantomas / Tomahawk

“Dustin has a photographic lens for an eye.”
– Alfredo Ortiz, Beastie Boys

“The drummer keeps a pulse. Dustin freezes it with a glance.
– Stephen Perkins, Jane’s Addiction

“His love for what he does runs so deeply that he liberates moments of excitement, hope, joy, and authenticity in a way so few photographers can.”
– Richard Branson

“The Things We Left Behind was one of my favourite records that we have done in a long time. One of the big reasons is because of Dustin’s photographs. Sometimes album art lifts the whole project up just enough and Dustin somehow managed to place the music perfectly.”
– Greg Keeler, Blue Rodeo

“You take such fucking awesome pictures.
They just keep getting better and better.”
– Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters/Nirvana

“It’s a relief Dustin is crawling around the shadows somewhere, trapping moments into immortality, rather than allowing them to fade into memory.”
– Josh Homme, Queens Of The Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures

“Dustin captures the spirit and the glamour of live burlesque beautifully. Thank you!”
– Dita Von Teese

“I only have 2 photos hanging on the walls in my house; one of my wife and me and the other is one that Dustin took.”
– Dallas Green, City And Colour / Alexisonfire

“Dustin is a natural.”
– Sarah Harmer, Musician

“Dustin does a marvelous job, he’s just a marvelous young man. If you knew him as well as I know him, you would be enamored.”
– Uncle Leo (Len Lesser)

“True visionary art.”
– Mix Master Mike, Beastie Boys

“Great pictures, nice guy, magic combination!”
– John Paul Jones, Them Crooked Vultures, Led Zeppelin

“He has a gifted ability to see and capture moments that usually go unnoticed by the average eye!”
– Ben Kowalewicz, Billy Talent

“Dustin does great work. Clean, expressive shots. He definitely captured the temperature of the things going down in that room.”
– Chino, Deftones

“Dustin has a great eye, and is stealthy like a ninja. He steals souls, and his photography tells their stories.”
– Frank Iero, My Chemical Romance

“How can I possibly articulate how blown away I am by your work? Your images dramatically changed my film.”
– James Moll, Director of the Grammy Award-Winning Film
"Foo Fighters: Back And Forth"

Music Industry

Arts & Crafts
Astralwerks
Atlantic Records
Bedlam Music Mgt
BMG
Burning Heart Records
Capitol Records
Dine Alone Records
EMI Music Canada
F.U.M.S.
Geffen Records
Gibson Guitars
Hollywood Records
Interscope Records
Ipecac Recordings
Live Nation US & Canada
Matador Records
Monotone Inc.
MPL Communications Ltd
Nettwerk
Polaris Music Prize
Polygram Records
RCA Records
Roswell Records
Sanctuary Group
Side One Dummy Records
Sonic Unyon
Sony Music US & Canada
Universal Music US & Canada
Vagrant Records
Vapor Records
Virgin Music Canada
Virgin Records America
Warner Bros Records
Warner Music Canada
Zildjian

Entertainment & Media

100% Film & Television
Antica Productions
Banger TV
Blue Ant Media
CBC Radio
CBC Television
Chris Rock Inc
Constantin Films
Copeland Entertainment
CTV
HGTV
MTV
MuchMusic
Netflix
National Film Board Of Canada
Random House Books
Stars On Ice
The New BEAT
VH1
Vision Film Co.

Print Media

Alternative Press
Bass Guitar Magazine
Bass Player
Canadian Musician
Chart
Drum!
Exclaim!
Fashion 18
Globe & Mail
Guitar World
Kerrang
MacLean’s
NME
Mojo
Now Magazine
New York Times
Punk Planet
Random House Books
Q Magazine
Rolling Stone
Samaritan Mag
Saturday Night
Slur
Smug
SODA Magazine
SPIN
Virgin Books
Visions

Advertising & Lifestyle

DC Shoes
Etnies Shoes
EURO RSCG
Inaria
LCBO
Mogami
Myspace
Ogilvy And Mather
Q Model Mgt.
Skate 4 Cancer
Skull Candy
Telus Mobility
Toms Shoes
Vans Warped Tour
Virgin Mobile
War Child Canada

A Perfect Circle
A Track
A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Red
Against Me!
Alexisonfire
Alice In Chains
Alvvays
Criss Angel
Antemasque
Anthrax
Anti-Flag
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Arkells
Joseph Arthur
At The Drive-In
Attack In Black
Auf Der Maur
Austra
Babes In Toyland
Travis Barker
Jay Baruchel
Beastie Boys
The Beaches
Beck
Bedouin Soundclash
Tony Bennett
Billy Talent
Biz Markie
Björk
Jack Black
Black Mountain
David Blaine
Blink 182
Blue Rodeo
Blur
Bongoloidz
Box Car Racer
Brad
Richard Branson
Broken Social Scene
Deanna Brooks
Natalie Brown
Basia Bulat
Le Butcherettes
By Divine Right
Steve Caballero
Canadian Olympic
Figure Skating Team
Canadian Olympic
Soccer Team
Cancer Bats
The Cardigans
Caribou
Nick Cave
Childish Gambino
Chuck D
Chromeo
city and colour
George Clinton
Tom Cochrane
Leonard Cohen
Constantines
The Coppertone
Elvis Costello
Brandon Cronenberg
Caitlin Cronenberg
Elisha Cuthbert
Cypress Hill
Brody Dalle
Danko Jones
The Dead Weather
Deftones

Johnny Depp
Danny DeVito
Dillinger Escape Plan
Dinosaur Jr.
DJ AM
DJ Muggs
The Donnas
Gord Downie
Drake
Duran Duran
Jeremy Dutcher
Rob Dyer - Skate4Cancer
Lindsay Ell
Eminem
Everclear
54/40
Face To Face
Faith No More
Fantômas
Fear Factory
Feist
Final Fantasy
Finger 11
First Aid Kit
Fishbone
The Flaming Lips
Foo Fighters
Judah Friedlander
Fucked Up
Nelly Furtado
Pierre Luc Gagnon
Donald Glover
Goldfinger
Matthew Good Band
Great Big Sea
Green Day
Greta Van Fleet
Grimes
Emm Gryner
Chris Hadfield
Emily Hampshire
Sarah Harmer
Emmylou Harris
Juliana Hatfield
Taylor Hawkins and the
Coattail Riders
Hayden
Helmet
The Hives
Hole
Holy Fuck
Christian Hosoi
Hot Hot Heat
Hovercraft
Iggy And The Stooges
Iggy Pop
The (Intl) Noise Conspiracy
INVSN
Jane's Addiction
Jay-Z
The Jesus Lizard
Jewel
Slater Jewell-Kemker
Mario Joyner
Julie And The Wrong Guys
Juliette & The Licks
The Kills
King Gizzard And The
Lizard Wizard
KRS-1
L7
Daniel Lanois
Anthony LaPaglia
Bucky Lasek
Lazer Harp

Letters To Cleo
Juliette Lewis
Gordon Lightfoot
Terra Lightfoot
Lil Wayne
Linkin Park
"Little Mosque on the
Prairie" Cast
Sierra Lundy
Luscious Jackson
Maestro Fresh Wes
Peter Mansbridge
Maroon 5
The Mars Volta
Andrea Martin
Massive Attack
Rachel McAdams
Paul McCartney
Mel C
The Melvins
Menalon
Metallica
Metric
METZ
MGMT
M.I.A.
Danny Michel
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Millencolin
Nicki Minaj
Mini Mansions
Mr. Bungle
Mr. Dressup
Mix Master Mike
Moby
Moneen
Money Mark
Moonlight Travel
Alanis Morissette
Mudhoney
Annie Murphy
My Chemical Romance
MXPX
Willie Nelson
New Pornographers
The Nightwatchman
Nirvana
NOBRO
Krist Novoselic
Oasis
Sinead O'Connor
Our Lady Peace
Owen Pallett
Dolly Parton
Mike Patton
Pavement
Pearl Jam
Peeping Tom
Pennywise
Stacy Peralta
The Plateaus
Presidents Of The U.S.A.
Primus
Protest The Hero
Pulp
PUP
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Raconteurs
Radiohead
Rage Against The Machine
Marky Ramone
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Refused
R.E.M.
The Rentals
The Replacements
Rise Against
RNDM
Sam Roberts Band
Chris Rock
Rocket From The Crypt
Royal Blood
Run DMC
Serena Ryder
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Sepultura
Ron Sexsmith
Shad
Shonen Knife
Sick Of It All
Silverchair
Silversun Pickups
Silverstein
Skid Row
Slash's Snakepit
Sarah Slean
Sloan
Smashing Pumpkins
Patti Smith
Snotty Nose Rez Kids
Sonic Youth
Soundgarden
Sparta
Britney Spears
St. Vincent
Stereophonics
Stereo Hoax
Jon Stewart
Stone Temple Pilots
The Strokes
George Stroumboulopoulos
Suicidal Tendencies
Sweet 75
Tanya Tagaq
Tegan and Sara
Tenacious D
Them Crooked Vultures
Thrice
Tokyo Police Club
Tomahawk
Tool
The Tragically Hip
Trainwreck
Trousers
Margaret Trudeau
U2
Karine Vanasse
Veruca Salt
Velvet Revolver
Butch Vig
The Vines
Dita Von Teese
Mike Watt
Weaves
Weezer
Paul Weller
Jack White
The Who
Wintersleep
Wolfmother
Royal Wood
Hawksley Workman
Neil Young
Zero 7

For 30 years Dustin Rabin has been documenting some of the most influential artists in rock music and has been fortunate enough to have rare access to them on and off stage.

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