The Band Tee for Photographers

There's a t-shirt in your wardrobe that means something. Maybe it's a faded Black Flag tee you've had since your teens. A Supreme drop you actually lined up for. A Thrasher shirt worn through from years of use. You didn't buy it because it was comfortable - you bought, and wore it, because it said something about who you are.

Now look at your Photography gear - The camera bag, the straps, the lenses... Covered in Branding, no style, no personality.

Why shouldn't your gear and wardrobe reflect any of that personality?

The Problem With "Photography Apparel"

Most photography merch falls into one of two categories:

The embarrassing stuff - Camera puns. Lens diagrams on a polo shirt. "I shoot people for a living" ...You know the kind. 

The boring stuff - bland, generic logo's more there for advertising than style. 

Neither of these represent how it actually feels to be into photography. The way it gets under your skin. How it feels to love Photography, and love being a Photographer. For many of us, it surpasses just being a hobby but even at a hobbyist level, it deserves it's own fandom, and every fandom deserves a way to represent.

At the very least, a t-shirt!

The Band Tee Blueprint

Think about what a band tee actually does. It signals a tribe. It references a world — an attitude, a subculture. The people who get it, get it. The ones who don't, don't need to.

Skate brands understood this too. Tattoo culture. Streetwear. These aesthetics built identities out of imagery, type, and symbols that carried weight. They weren't corporate. They weren't literal. They were proud, specific, and uncompromising.

Photography has one of the most passionate, dedicated communities of any pursuit out there, so photography deserves that same treatment.

I wanted to design something that carries the culture — the patience, the obsession, the slight antisocial tendencies, the manic extroversion, the optimism that is seeking beauty, and the absolute insanity it takes to dedicate your time to this art form. 

The idea isn't to shout "I am a photographer!" - It's to wear something that fits amongst any other cool streetwear brand, and if someone who shares that obsession clocks it across a room, even better.

I wanted to design Photography Merch that makes people ask "where did you get that", not "oh, so you're into photography?"

Hand-Designed by Adam MacKintosh

As a visual artist, inspired as much by drawing and painting as much as Photography, it was important to me to design the graphics by hand. I needed something that worked as well with black jeans as it does with cargo shorts. I needed it to hold up on the street, in the photo pit or studio, and onto the afterparty.

At the end of the day, I design what I want to wear because I'm not finding it anywhere else and as someone who wanted to represent my love for Photography, I was at a loss.

All designs are hand-made, hand-drawn by Photographer, Adam MacKintosh and new designs are constantly in the works.

The Collection

These shirts were designed for people who don't separate photography from same way they love music, art, video games, movies etc. They are cut for everyday wear and built around aesthetics borrowed from the same places we've always looked for great style: record stores, skate shops, tattoo flash sheets, rock n' Roll, and of course - Photography legends.

No bs. No compromise.

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