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Festival photographer in Ireland

Main stage to the back of the field. I photograph festivals across Ireland from a base in Dublin — the sets, the production, the crowd and the day around them.

What gets photographed

A festival is a day, not a set. The coverage is built to describe the whole of it — and to be usable the moment it lands.

Main stage first: the headline sets, the production doing what it was designed to do, and the moments a lighting plot builds towards. Smaller stages and tents get the same treatment on a tighter clock.

Then the part that proves it was a festival rather than a gig — the crowd from the pit and from behind, the site as it fills, the weather and the hours between sets. Promoters tend to need those frames more than another guitarist in a spotlight.

Outdoors changes the job: flat daylight at 4pm, no lights at all by 6pm, and a rig at full power by 10pm. All three are part of the same delivery and get colour-matched to sit together.

Main-stage sets, and support and side stages where the running order allows
Crowd from the pit, the barrier and the back of the field
Atmosphere and site — arena build, signage, food strip, campsite, weather
Production and venue frames: rig, screens, pyro, lasers, the site at capacity
Artist portraits backstage where the schedule and access allow

The crowd, and the hours around the sets

Gates to last song. The people who bought the ticket are most of what a festival looks like, and they are most of what gets photographed. The rest of the live and crowd work is in the homepage gallery.

A festival main stage across a field of buttercups, giant inflatable flowers either side of a coloured arch and the crowd gathering in the sun — The site, early

Four friends on a swing ride with arms out and hands raised, festival flags and a striped marquee behind them — Between sets

Four friends in sunglasses and hats posing arm in arm in front of festival flags on an overcast afternoon — Portraits

Fisheye view of a packed festival crowd under a wide white canopy, the main stage beyond it in the afternoon sun — Full house

Someone lifted on shoulders above a huge daytime festival crowd, arms up and a phone in hand, painted banners on the stage behind — On shoulders

Two friends pulling faces for a selfie in front of a stage lit magenta, a can held up in the air — After dark

Travelling to the site

Dublin is the base and the whole of Ireland is in range — a field in Kerry is a drive, not an expedition. Travel to a site the day before is normal for an early load-in, and I work the same way on either side of the border.

Festivals outside Ireland are covered from the same base; that is the European tour and travel side of the work.

Accreditation, pit rotations, wristbands and photographer briefings are the promoter’s call — tell me the rules and I will work inside them without needing to be chased.

BASE: Dublin, Ireland
RANGE: All of Ireland / Europe on request
SUBJECTS: Stage / Artist / Crowd / Site
FORMATS: Full-res + web + socials crop
LICENCE: Editorial / promo / commercial
CREDIT: Zoltan Szabo

Deliverables and licensing

Editorial — press-ready selects, captioned, filed to a title’s deadline
Promoter and festival — a full edited set for recaps, next year’s campaign and the archive
Artist and management — the set itself, cut for their own channels
Social — vertical and square crops sized for stories and feeds

Everything arrives edited and colour-matched across the day, full resolution for print plus web sizes, with social crops alongside. Licensing — editorial, promotional or commercial — is agreed in the booking rather than negotiated afterwards.

Book a night.

Festival, stages, dates and who the images are for. Early enquiries are easier to plan around — reply inside a day.

Start an enquiry hello@mrz.im

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