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title: A Music Photographer Is Hanging His Marked-Up Contact Sheets Next to the Finished Prints
description: THE PLAYLIST brings forty of Andy Gotts's unretouched music portraits, and some of his marked-up contact sheets, to Santa Barbara from 27 August.
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-08-11T08:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-08-11T09:00:00.987Z
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region: California
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Among the forty prints Andy Gotts is hanging at El Encanto in Santa Barbara are several of his own contact sheets, the working proofs a photographer uses to pick one frame out of a session, shown here as finished work with the red and yellow grease-pencil marks still on them.

THE PLAYLIST opens on 27 August 2026 and runs to 30 November. It is Andy’s first exhibition in California, and the prints are in the style he is known for, shot in extreme close-up and printed in high-contrast black and white.

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