Hayley Rosenblum Photography

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Hayley Rosenblum Photography

Hayley Rosenblum is a music enthusiast, art enabler and a freelance music photographer. This is her page to share her photography.
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I mostly take pictures to share my perspective as someone who values live music and what it means to be a fan. My photography has been featured in international newspapers, magazines, art zines, and on websites like Brooklyn Vegan, Brooklyn Magazine, CLRVYNT, CMJ,

and Homoground. My work has been featured on the official social networks and websites for venues across New York City and shared online by bands from all over the world.

12/15/2025

Night 2 at
Brooklyn, NY
December 12, 2025

Earlier this year I saw Cursive open up for Bright Eyes at the Brooklyn Paramount. I dubbed this the year of Saddle Creek, swooning to the bands that soundtracked my high school years and continue to be on rotation in my music library over the course of the last 20 years. I smiled as I came across their music in my old CD collection, which I retrieved this summer from the house I grew up in. I laughed to myself when I wore my Cursive shirt to Rilo Kiley’s reunion tour. I was content. 🎵 THIS is the latest from Saddle Creek…

And then, Cursive announced a headlining club tour to close out the year. I had to get tickets as soon as they went on sale, I wanted to be up front and I wanted to photograph them again. I wanted to time travel through the music to the way it made me feel when I was listening to them for the first time.

I first photographed Cursive in 2015 when they played Saint Vitus during their Ugly Organ anniversary shows. I was fairly new to concert photography at the time and I remember being so happy with my captures but it literally took me a decade to share them. (Check my grid to see). So, it was important to me that this time around, I get them up quickly.

05/24/2025

From the archives:

The Ugly Organ reissue tour

Brooklyn, NY
March 12, 2015

A decade ago I was front row at Saint Vitus, a venue that’s since closed, thrilled to see Cursive perform their album The Ugly Organ in its entirety joined by their original cellist , who had parted the band a decade prior.

I was joyed when to hear all the songs that soundtracked my high school years. The album came out in 2003, which was 12 years before these photos were captured and 22 years from today.

Last month I saw Cursive open for Bright Eyes, and I felt nostalgic just the same. Later this year I’ll finally see Rilo Kiley live and I cannot help but think how formative was as a record label, as a curator to a lot of the music that became so formative to me.

I remember feeling proud of the captures I got in 2015 but I never edited or shared these photos, until now. This pastJanuary I was looking through my hard drive and revisited them. And since then, I cannot stop thinking of my photograph of Gretta resting her head on her cello. So now, I am sharing it.

I started photographing concerts on New Year’s Eve 2014, only three months before this show. Looking at these photographs I think about what I’d have done differently, how I could compose the images better now with my current set up. I think about how despite what I’d do differently, I’m still very pleased, because I just can’t stop thinking about that photograph of Gretta, and if a photograph sticks with you all these years, if it transports you to a time and space, that’s perfection in and of it self; that’s the point.

05/20/2025

A year and a half ago, .gif and Max adopted .miss.dahlia and in August she’ll be turning 2 years old.

When people walk by her on the street, they smile and audibly say she’s cute to whomever they’re walking with. People frequently ask if she is still a puppy. One time, someone in a car at a red light “catcalled” her as we crossed the street in the cross walk. She brings delight with her wherever she goes.

She loves sitting on park benches, and she loves me. If you say my name she perks her ears up like this. If you say “your best friend” she also knows that’s me. When I see her after a long while she wags her tail so hard and so fast it wiggles her whole body.

On Sunday, I captured this portrait of Dahlia and every day since I’ve looked at it and thought how happy it makes me. I made it my phone wallpaper so I can bottle that feeling up. This photograph reminds me of lots of little joys compounding together.

A photograph is literally a snapshot of a moment in time. And yet, somehow photographs can also tell you a story about all the moments that came before it, too.

Here, I literally see the challenge of getting her to sit still, Jeri waving treats over my camera, and the pollen making us all sneeze. I see Dahlia happy to be in her favorite place with her favorite people. I also see all the joy and comfort and laughs and tears and fun she’s brought us- that she’s brought me.

This is “my best friend” Dahlia, my puppy niece.

05/19/2025

celebrates TEN YEARS of PATRON-FUNDED ART, MUSIC & COMMUNITY
With

New York, NY

To say that Amanda Palmer changed my life is an understatement. There’s so much to say, but for now, I’ll say this -

My time working with and for Amanda has taken many twists and turns since 2009, and each step of the way helped me carve my path in getting to do work that I deeply care about, for all the right reasons. As a teenager, the music that I loved, and the fan communities built around those bands were integral to my survival. As an adult, being part of of the magic, to witness the music and art I helped Amanda release touch people’s lives in the very moments they needed it most, is something I don’t really have words to describe. And through this work, on the artist side, I learned I had a passion to help shape how the tools are built and used to bring music communities together online. I feel incredibly grateful for the grace and space Amanda has offered me over the years to expand my wings and my creativity, in particular, with my photography. What a privilege to have her and her concerts as a creative playground for me to learn as ago, the opportunities and adventures to take out my camera and learn what my own artistic voice is, and to have it amplified and shared, documenting moments of great significance, and moments of the mundane.

It was a joy to capture this afternoon of performances. It was even more special to witness Amanda watching her friends from the side of the stage with such deep love, admiration, and pride as they shared their gifts on stage. I am filled with so much gratitude - for the opportunity to capture these moments, to witness incredible songwriting, to be in the orbit and play a part - albeit a different part than I used to play - in helping make things go. There’s so much to say, but for now, I hope my photography says enough.

05/05/2025

at
Brooklyn, NY
April 30, 2025

I’ve had the joy to witness Miya perform live countless times, starting with her CMJ performance at the now closed CakeShop in 2013 where I still have the home made CD I purchased from her afterwards. The last time I caught her live was in 2019c where I saw her play at SXSW 2019 a few times before catching her first ever NYC headlining show which happened to be at Elsewhere.

Her IG livestreams during the pandemic kept me connected to the spontaneity of music when we couldn’t see it live. Her evolving sound, songwriting and collaborations have kept us all on our toes. What an experience it is to see her push and pull to the edges as she shares more and more of herself in her music and takes us for the ride right along with her.

01/07/2025

A dip into my archives:
at 2016

I was searching for a specific photograph I made in 2016 in my archives to make a print and decided to just browse around. I came across photographs I captured at Moogfest in North Carolina in May 2016.

When I digitally thumbed through my images from Grimes’ headlining set I audibly gasped when I came across this one. It was like a diamond in the rough and I just love the way it looks in B&W.

It was obvious that even though this wasn’t the photograph I intended to make a print of tonight, I just had to get a print of this one too.

12/18/2024

Last week: &
, New York, NY

I’ve been listening to both Julien Baker and Torres for nearly 10 years now. I find myself coming back to each of their records, spinning them on repeat to quench a thirst that can’t be satiated, but yet can be soothed.

It was a total thrill to see Torres announced as an opener to the sold out show Julien played in October, where they previewed two of their new songs. And even bigger thrill to get to hear their new tunes at Mercury Lounge, a surprise sold out show they announced before. They joked on stage that this was their “first show ever” because it was their first show as a band, but they are well seasoned rock stars in their own glories.

It’s such a joy to see two musicians that I love so much on the same bill, but to hear them collaborate and bring out the best of each other’s songwriting and instrumentation is just something else. Felt like a bolt of lightning to hear these new songs for the first time, and know that I will be wearing them out when the record is released.

I simply cannot stop humming their song “Sylvia”, written in honor of Torres’s dog. To hear a song once and love it so much is a thrill, and to not be able to hear again until the record is out is such a tantalizing thing… another thirst that cannot be quenched… at least not yet.

On stage Julien talked about how the last time she played Mercury Lounge, she ran over to Bowery Ballroom after her set to catch the end of Torres’s set. I was at that Torres show (it was January 2016) and I always lamented not being able to see Julien at Mercury Lounge. Well, now, I’m glad to have had a second chance, with a bow tied to the story since Torres was right there to share the stage. I have no doubt they’ll make moves with this record and see how hard they’ve worked to get their music out, I couldn’t be happier to be along for the ride.

12/05/2024

UNLOCKED Speaker Series
Hosted by in conversation with
, New York, NY

I’ve been thinking a lot about my connection to my camera this year. What it means for me as a creative outlet, and what I use my photography to say and share.

After years of consideration, last week I decided to unblock my creativity and lean into the equally exciting but uncertain and expensive decision to upgrade to a mirrorless camera. And I couldn’t think of a better event to be the first thing I photographed as this speaking series has the tag line, “Exploring the creative process.” Ilana beautifully moderated a conversation with Amanda, touching on their mutual roots in live theater, and created an elegant space for Amanda to walk through to talk about her own evolution in how she approached art, community and building the plane as you fly navigating this little thing called the Internet to build connection.

I sat in the front row of the tiny theater space, which is a time capsule experience of its own, and reflected on what it’s been like for me to have had a front seat (literally and figuratively) for Amanda and her process over these last 20 years. I thought about how, just like Amanda, I use to live experience in anticipation of reflecting on it and relaying the experience in blogs and social media, and now, I can’t bother to share because I’m now in the moment. I no longer feel the need to report a diary what happens in my life, but I do feel the drive to capture ephemeral events and share my photography as an artifact.

So here are captures I’ve made of this event, and I share them with you hoping each frame tells you a little story, void of their context - because you really had to be there.

10/08/2024

is here to Collect.

October 5th: Opening for at a sold out show at

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10/02/2024

Have you ever seen a punk show performed on a boat?

September 17th: & the Mississippi Medicals on the cruise around the Statue of Liberty

It’s a rare delight to attend a show in an NYC venue that’s new to me, and it was quite something to see a show on a moving vessel. No one could leave or arrive early, everyone who was there from the first note of the opening act was also there from the last note of LJG’s headlining set.

As LJG hopped around stage, she remarked at how wild it was to jump up and have had the floor moved to a different place when she landed. I think that’s a great analogy for a good show, too. You leave the show the same, but if it’s moving, you feel different.

07/21/2024

Friday, July 19th
at

In May I got to see play as Noun solo in the basement of a tiny bar in my neighborhood. Going to that show took me back ten years to seeing shows in the now long gone DIY venues across Brooklyn.

Seeing Noun again, now in their final form as a duo, filling up Alphaville, a tiny Bushwick bar rock club, with their shredding guitar and booming drums, it all felt like a dream you know won’t last long, a special moment in time because they are destined to rock their way to bigger stages.

I’ve seen Marissa play all across NYC on stages large and small as 1/3 of , and as that band sunset this year, I’m reminded how special it is to witness new music, new chapters, at the very beginning of a band’s journey, where everything is new but oh so familiar in just the right way.

Put Marissa in front of 10,000 people or 100, as long as she has her guitar you’re in for one heck of a show.

07/05/2024

June 26, 2024: ’ Base Camp: France at Le Brossay, a chateau in Renac, France.

I arrived at Le Brossay without knowing what to expect, exactly. I knew that I needed to represent Patreon in their partnership with Creator Camp, I knew that I needed to moderate a fire side chat with two creators on Patreon we invited to join us at the retreat, and I knew that I was there to help and inspire creators however I could.

What I didn’t know is that the castle itself would be a main character for us throughout the week. The trees, the sun that didn’t set until past 11pm, the stars that didn’t appear until after 12:30am, the sheep that would graze the grass, the bell that would ring for dinner, the trees that were vibrantly green and a character of their own, the castle itself built in 1895 and felt like the mansion in Clue, the bats that flew around the main hall, the largest bees I’ve ever seen, a month the size of humming birds, bewildered pigeon lost in the upper halls, and the hustling and bustling of two dozen creators building connections and making art.

I knew what I needed to do, I just didn’t know what would happen in the time and space between my responsibilities. It was that time where I connected with my camera, with my own complicated creativity and how I am often my own blocker with it.

It was the conversations in between everything else that I found to be so rich and insightful. I asked questions, the deep kind. I answered questions, the introspective kind. I feel accomplished in what I set out to do, and in walking away with so much inspiration from everyone I got to share this experience with.

I have so much gratitude that I get to do the work that I do, a mission I care so deeply about, and thankful to have had this rich experience. I spend most of my days building community virtually, so to experience a creative community in real life felt so special. Thank you , for caring so deeply for the next generation of creators, and enabling me to help inspire creators and share my experiences in such a special way. And of course, Creator Camp, you’re doing something very special.

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