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Sunset on Day 1 of Sea Hear Now 2025 festival in Asbury Park, Sept. 13 2025.
Sunset on Day 1 of Sea Hear Now 2025 festival in Asbury Park, Sept. 13 2025. Hozier, Alabama Shakes, LCD Soundsystem, ZZ Top and more played.
- Photographer Danny Clinch has a new exhibit called “Joy Ride” at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York City.
- The exhibit features Clinch’s photos of musicians in motion, often in cars, motorcycles, or tour buses.
- He is also a co-founder of the Sea Hear Now festival in Asbury Park.
Danny Clinch is on a Joy Ride and the way we view music won’t be the same.
That’s the name of the new exhibit of Clinch’s photography at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York City. It’s on display through Sunday, May 10.
“In Joy Ride we’re focusing on people in their cars, a motorcycle or a tour bus,” said Clinch at the show’s packed opening reception on April 16. “We leaned on thar sort of stuff but there are a lot of classics here for sure.”
Joy Ride, previously shown at the Morrison Gallery’s Sunset Marquis location in Los Angeles, is billed as Clinch’s photographic journey of his life in motion: “rocking with Pearl Jam, rolling with Neil Young, digging records with Patti Smith, and walking Queensbridge with Nas.”
“Motion creates moments and that’s what I feel these are — they’re captured moments,” Clinch said.
Clinch’s photos have appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ and the New York Times Magazine and he’s been nominated three times by the Grammys for his musical films. The Toms River native shot the covers of Nas’ “Illmatic,” Johnny Cash’s “Solitary Man,” Kanye West’s “The College Dropout” and multiple Bruce Springsteen albums.
He’s also a co-founder of the Sea Hear Now festival in Asbury Park, which takes place Sept. 19 and 20 this year with Mumford and Sons and the Strokes headlining. His Transparent Clinch Gallery in the city hosts the music greats of today and the stars of tomorrow — as well as his photos.
“You just always have to be ready because that’s what I live for. I live for those moments,” said Clinch of his photography. “I’m always ready to capture them.”
Clinch, who plays with the Tangiers Blues Band, was ready at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in January when he was taking pics of a Light of Day festival concert and Springsteen asked him from the stage to start playing harmonica for “Johnny 99.”
“That was pretty funny,” Clinch said. “I was glad I had the right harmonica. He’s like, ‘What do you have in your pocket other than a roll of film?’”
Go: Danny Clinch Joy Ride through Sunday, May 10 (11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays; noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays), Morrison Hotel Gallery, 116 Prince St., New York City. morrisonhotelgallery.com.
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Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Contact him at [email protected]
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