John “Nunu” Zomot is one of America’s premiere pop culture photographers and has become a part of the world he records. Since 1990 Nunu has documented music and sports events capturing two Woodstocks,The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inaugural Show in Cleveland, every annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival since 1995, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo music festivals, six Chicago Bulls NBA Championships and many other once-in-a-lifetime performances.
Nunu’s work has been used for album, book and website photography for musician greats such as Pete Townshend, Pearl Jam, Steve Winwood, Ziggy Marley, Toots and the Maytals, The Meters, The Neville Brothers, Mavis Staples, Koko Taylor, Nellie Travis, North Mississippi Allstars and the list goes on. He currently works with many music magazines such as Rolling Stone, Relix, Sabian Drum and New Orleans Funk Guitar, Offbeat, to name a few.
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Koko Taylor
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana © Nunu
Queen of the Blues sang as an expression of her deeply rooted connection to her youth growing up in Bartlett, Tennessee. According to her biography, Koko reflected on how a song she had learned from her father in the cotton fields, appeared on her album Old School, alongside her own compositions. “She grew up in blues culture, as a sharecropper and learning from listening to other singers, not just to records,” said Bruce Iglauer, Alligator Records founder. Koko Taylor has been an inspiration to women around the world.
