In the Summer of 2019, the owner of my childhood home launched Shut Up & Listen, an annual concert series featuring some of Minnesota’s best folk, blues, and country musicians. I have been fortunate enough to document this beautiful phenomena each year in photographs.

When the original iPhone 1 I bought in 2007 finally died in 2013, my brother Casey gave me another. By then a functioning iPhone 1 was rare, but this particular one was exceedingly so.