Tom Petty, hotellrum, New York, 1977

You can almost feel the quiet of that New York hotel room through the grain of the photograph. The casual, intimate pose captures a side of Tom Petty you don't usually see in his more staged work. Really happy with the mood this black-and-white print brings to my space.

The way his posture reads as both relaxed and guarded makes this feel less like a posed shot and more like a stolen glimpse. The black-and-white tones bring out the texture of the room, and it’s got this quiet, documentary quality that fits the 1977 era perfectly. I’ve already found myself staring a

The grain on this 1977 print captures that raw, pre-fame energy perfectly—you can almost feel the stillness of that hotel room. I've stared at the way the light falls across his face for ten minutes already and it somehow feels more personal each time. Exactly the kind of intimate shot I wanted for