Photographer Rita Weigand’s photographs have been published consistently since her entrance into the world of music photo journalism in 1992. A former staff photographer for  Blues Revue magazine, and a contributor to Billboard, Relix, Pulse!, Blues Access and Dean Budnick’s latest book,  Jam Bands: North America's Hottest Live Groups, Ms. Weigand’s photographs are in demand and have appeared in promotional editorial form in brochures, posters and on web sites for festivals, cruises, artists, record companies and cultural organizations. Her work appears with the top blues photographers nationally as a featured photographer in the 1999 and 2000 Blues Photography Issues of Big City Blues. In addition, Ms. Weigand’s photographs grace the CD sleeves of the 1999 Mystic Music release, “The Blues Keeps Me Holding On“, by Savoy Brown, the 1998 Stir Fried Live CD, “Electra Fried”, featuring Vassar Clements, 1997 Viceroy Records release, “Knights of the Blues Table” and the 1996 self-titled, “Stir Fried”, debut album.

Rita Weigand is a member of The American Society of Media Photographers whose current stock list exceeds 500 artists in many rare, backstage and previously unpublished live performance views. Ms. Weigand's photographs have been displayed at various galleries nationally, including the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Rock & Roll, The Blues Photography Exhibits at the Mississippi Valley Blues Festivals and Blues 2000, The Clearwater Folk Festival on the Hudson, The ProPhoto Show at Korn Gallery in Drew University, The New Jersey Heritage Exhibit at Macculloch Hall Historical Museum in Morristown, N.J., her Roots of Rock exhibit at Joyous Lake in Woodstock, NY and the Audio Venus Multi Media Showcase in Manhattan, where she was interviewed for NYC cable tv by two time Emmy Award winner, David Kramer.

The American Biographical Institute has recently honored Ms. Weigand for her photographic acheivements with the nomination for inclusion in the International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women, Eighth Edition, to be published in mid-2001. Additionally, Ms. Weigand has been selected by the International Biographic Centre in Cambridge, England, for her outstanding acheivements in the Photographic Arts & Sciences, for inclusion in 2000 Outstanding Intelluctuals of the 21st Century, First Edition, which is to be released in late 2001.

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