It’s finally here! The first gallery of the 2024 Gathering of the Juggalos. I hear from people all the time that these are the photos they are waiting all year for so I am glad I can deliver once again. For those somehow not in the know, the Gathering of the Juggalos is a four day music festival that is (usually) at Legend Valley campground in Thornville Ohio. The festival is thrown by the Insane Clown Posse for their fans, juggalos. I shot over 4000 photos that I have edited down to about 800 for you guys. I have seven posts featuring nine galleries and plenty of NSFW stuff. I hope you dig it. 

To start with, we of course have photos with juggalos. This gallery features the portraits of juggalos, during the daytime. We are going to have a post with all the night time stuff so there will be more portraits in there so if I took your picture and you are looking for it, there’s still a lot more to go. This actually brings me to a good point, which is that I love shooting this event for two totally different audiences. I love that juggalos love to see their photos here, but I also love that people on the outside love looking at this stuff. 

The Gathering of the Juggalos is honestly the place I feel most appreciated as a photographer. I almost feel like a celebrity there. I can’t tell you how many people want a selfie or just wanna tell me how much they love my photography. That shit really makes me feel good when I have spent most of the year since I moved just feeling very uninspired. But the thing I appreciate the most is the juggalos who tell me how much it means to them that while I have photographer juggalos for a lot of major media outlets, I am never there to clown them, no pun intended. Hearing from photography subjects that they think I paint them (again no pun intended) in a fair light is a great compliment for a journalist. I think over the last 15 or so years I have tried to do my best to show that juggalos are more than how they have been treated in the media, and I honestly think that I have had an impact on the way people see juggalos.

Okay, enough of me blowing myself, let’s get into this. Despite shooting 4000 photos I actually tried to take it easy this year. I didn’t shoot much of the daytime stuff, aside from a few of the NSFW events because I know what you guys need from me. I would come down each night between 5 and 6pm to catch the dusk and the best light, then shoot the bands and then go the fuck back to my hotel because I am old and I hate shooting with a flash these days. I did cover a few after midnight things, but we will get to that later.

Okay. like I said, this is a gallery of juggalo portraits. My favorite shots from this gallery were already up on Brooklyn Vegan, there’s a ton more shots that I didn’t give them as well. Also, I should mention that all the NSFW photos from the Gathering are going to be unfortunately behind a paywall. I have explained this before but my gallery system broke and I don’t have the skill or money to fix it, so I have been posting stuff on Flickr. Flickr won’t let you post adult content anymore, so that leaves the most fun photos reserved for Girls of Driven By Boredom. Obviously, I like it when you give me money, but it legit pisses me off that I am in this situation. I got a ton of good shots this year that have a bit of nudity and I wish I could share them with everyone. One of these days I will get the money together to redo my website, but for now my pay site is as cheap as the site will let me so you guys can sign up and you will get decades of nudes and juggalette coverage. Just saying. Seriously 5 of my 9 galleries are paywalled, and one of them is already up, so get over there already.

Now click here to see juggalo portraits at the 2024 Gathering of the Juggalos!

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