We close the digital doors on February 07, 2025
Coming soon: Packing it in
Happy 2025 to all eyes that might be stopping by. As you may or may not know, the Bygone Photos are from a long-lost, now resurfaced collection of live-rock and the surrounding happenstances from a place and time (PacNw, Seattle/Eastside mostly // 1982-ish to 1993-ish). ANYHOO – these are all FILM photographs, and there are a seemingly infinite number of them. It was staggeringly difficult and expensive to get THIS far, and although I’d like nothing better than to finish it, sometimes you just have to surrender to circumstances, regardless of the passion you have for a thing. This is that moment. We’ve lost so much and so many, and we all know how hard life can be, so with all the love in my heart – I hope you enjoyed these moments, then and now, and please do reach out, keep in touch, get good or stay bad (credit to The Cops for one of the best records of all time). And to all our supporters — Thank You so, so much.
This is Now
Images from the waysides
These are the moments of many — some having gone on to global recognition and acclaim, most having settled into occasionally recounting the tales of glory around kitchen tables or at coffee shop counters.
This is Bygone Photos — a long deferred debut of unseen images and asides from an interesting, multi-faceted time and place. After many years in captivity, and considering the intrinsic nature of a film photography archive, choices had to be made: let the negatives turn to dust or preserve them for posterity and set them loose. As is my way, I took the hard road.
Artistic masterpieces, lost artifacts, invaluable contributions to the historical record, silly scrapbook detritus, overwrought nostalgia, all of the above, none of the above — who knows? The Bygone Photos collection just tells a million stories, and we rocked them all.
Snoozed and Loozed?
Bygones: The Show...has closed
June 10 - October 01, 2023
Thank you to everyone that made the IRL time, came down, shared the stories, listened to me talk, and said nice things. Special Thanks to the good people at Kontent partners for sponsoring the exhibit and of course Sleight of Hands SODO for the space.
If you didn't, or couldn't, make it - you're here now and that's awesome. Every time someone contributes a kind word or buys prints, it's a big win for the project; X/O JA
Buying Bygones
Well, since you asked: Sure, these photos can be bought — as art prints — and each individual gallery features those possibilities! Sizes range from 5x7 - 11x14, and prices range from $5 - $150 (except for a few limited edition, special order only print runs - please get ahold of us for any questions about those).
That was then
Bands in action
The current wayback Bygone Band line-up:
7 Year Bitch, 45 Grave, Aspirin Feast, Bathtub Gin, Big Chief, Big Satan Inc (BSI), The Cops, Crackerbash, Culprit, DC Beggars, Dead City Rebels, Derelicts, Feast, Flipper, The Fumes, Gas Huffer, Girl Trouble, The Gits, Green Day, Green River, Gruntruck, Heavy into Jeff, Himsa, Hippie Big Buckle, I Hate You Scotty, Icky Joey, Kings of Rock, Ladyjugsaplenty, Lipstick, Meices, The Mob, Mono Men, Mookie Blaylock, Motorhoney, Mummies, My Eye, My Sisters Machine, Myth, NoMeansNo, Overlord, Poison Idea, Positive Greed, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Purdins, Queen Annes, Rail, Room Nine, Sage, Shadow, Sinister Six, Sister Double Happiness, Steel Wool, Supersuckers, Sybil (Kill Sybil), Temple of the Dog, TKO, The Trids, Truly, U-Men, Wild Dogs, Zipgun
VENI VIDI VICI
Bygones is dedicated to my father, Lt. Col. EJ Andersen - Marine Corps fighter pilot and all-around tough guy. Not particularly fond of, or nice about, much besides very fast flying war planes, he did like two things: Music and Photography
No, You’re Great!
A million thanks to:
John Bartell, who’s genuine interest in my past life as a rock photographer, and the work that came of it, means everything to me in my faded non-glory. The Kontent Partners crew, without whom these damn photos would still be in captivity in their boxes. Y’all can thank them for unleashing these beasts. Derek Harn, the core Bygones supporter and without whom this website would not exist. Like AT ALL. Not even a little. Jenny Persing/Raindog Photos & Restoration – for steadfastness while we trip, fall, learn, and do better. Dawn Anderson, founder and editor of long-gone Backlash Magazine, for actually having given me my first big rock writer&photographer break way back when. AnyaE Design for a dramatic zero-hour rescue we had long surrendered any hope of getting. Margaret Dickenson, for from-afar hand-holding through this newest of my boondoggles, and that’s even AFTER she went through all the tough Black Sheep Farm years — You’d think she’d learn. Also, anyone in the closer circles that meant it when they said the Bygone Photos project wasn't the stupidest thing I've ever done.