The photo above was taken when I attended the preview of JUNE a new film about June Carter Cash at Nashville’s Woolworth Theatre. The film includes many of my photographs over 2 decades and loads of my video footage from mainly the Press On recording sessions and my time in Jamaica shooting the album cover. This on-screen picture is my …

This and several other of my photographs are featured in Ken Burns series, COUNTRY MUSIC, currently broadcast on PBS (USA) and in the companion book.⁣ ⁣This is one of my first Nashville photographs taken during FanFair at a lunchtime RCA Records reception and award presentation the year before I moved here from London. Waylon was a likable “outlaw” and the …

Alan’s photograph of JOHNNY CASH at his log Cabin in Hendersonville (Tennessee) in 1988, is the new cover of the SONGWRITER album that is getting rave reviews with pre-sales soaring before the official release on June 28th, 2024. The cover on the back of the album package was also taken by Alan. The new album, ‘Songwriter,’ is made from previously …

Alan’s photo of Keith Richards was featured on the cover of Issue 80 of Uncut Magazine in the UK.

Photos by Alan Messer featured in the best-selling issue of Ray Gun Magazine. Designed by David Carson.

This photograph of Lyle Lovett’s feet was shot purposefully by me using an SX70 Polaroid,as I was making a collage, somewhat influenced by David Hockney. At the time (1990) I was designing and screenprinting the American Original series for CBS Nashville at my Broadway studio working with film overlays, Swan Morton scalpels, rulers, inks, acetone paint thinners, etc., David Carson …