The Photo Banter

Matt Sharkey

The Photo Banter

Show Notes

On today's podcast I welcome photographer Matt Sharkey. Matt Sharkey is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and got his start working with the band No Doubt before working in the skateboard industry. Matt has gone on to work as a marketing director for brands such as The North Face, Levi's, Clif Bar, and Chrome to name a few. In this interview I speak to Matt about his new book American Denim as well as his early day's of photographing No Doubt.

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