How Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan Got Hooked on Photography

Slipknot percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan recently spoke to with the Gauntlet about his life-long connection with photography. Most interesting was when Crahan told the story of how his photography career was launched.

Rolling Stone magazine had a photo shoot which focused on the Slipknot masks 10 years ago. The photographer "showed up with a Mamiya RB all decked out with a Polaroid back," and asked Crahan if he would like to style the shoot. "I was hooked after that," he told the Gauntlet. The art form, he said, is to "find an element of that reality that you would have no control over, because you would be interjecting me into that ... and by doing so I would find that element that isn't apparently to anyone else there. But after I've captured it and displayed it and presented it to you, you would agree that i had captured something that you felt or seen or smelled."

Slipknot will kick off a tour in early October with Deftones supporting.