Brittany is a freelance photographer, videographer, and creative producer - involved in all things storytelling.

Brittany Hallberg has dedicated 14 years to becoming a part of and capturing the concert and music festival scene, building an identity within the community under the moniker “Brittany NO FOMO”.  An independent producer with an entrepreneurial spirit, she has always dove headfirst into culture and community with the mindset of authentically telling artists’ stories from a genuine point of view.

In 2014, she started a music blog “No Fear of Missing Out” that lead to 10 years of capturing events around the world, ultimately landing gigs for photo teams for Coachella, Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, Sea Hear Now, ACL, Envision + working directly with artists like Lizzo and Clozee, just to name a few. Brittany has photographed at every music venue in NYC and Austin and worked on some of the largest stages on the festival circuit. 

She’s worked with many brands that align with the festival scene such as Waterloo Sparkling Water, a client who she’s been their go-to photographer and videographer for their nationwide sponsored events for over four years. 

The pandemic inspired Brittany to take her storytelling passion into photojournalism, advocacy work, and working various gigs in film + taking classes for film. She hopes to document stories in a deeper way that inspire, educate, encourage empathy, and lead to positive change.

What you didn’t know…

Her career journey in NYC consisted of six years of advertising and event coordination roles for companies like BBH and Vinyl Me, Please, providing her client-facing, campaign pitching, and creative producing skills plus giving her a well-rounded mindset of what both brands and audiences are looking for within art and experience. Even though her 9-5 resume started on a marketing path, her passion of photographing led her to capture events and music most nights and every weekend, building her network and portfolio, completely on her own and self-taught. In later years, she made the switch to working freelance focusing on photo, video, and storytelling roles.

Splitting time between Austin, NYC, and Asbury Park, NJ, she prides herself in supporting the local artist communities in every city she lives in by photographing bands’ shows and producing photo shoot series where she offers free portraits.

What sets her soul on fire is capturing and telling stories of individuals that make up various communities around the world in an intentional and genuine way & documenting happenings to raise awareness on critical topics.

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Photo Career Highlights:

• Currently, Brittany works in film production as a production coordinator, production assistant, and B-Cam operator on reality TV, documentaries, studio sets, commercials, live event coverage, and music videos.

• For years living in NYC, “Brittany NO FOMO” was the first journalist to cover the 2013-2017 Brooklyn underground scene and party/art/music culture that blossomed among three key event promoters, which included capturing the nightlife at the legendary House of Yes and befriending NYC’s most avant-garde performers and party starters.

• While being at a 9-6PM jobs in advertising and event planning for years in NYC, she launched a music blog called No Fear of Missing Out, where she managed contributors to cover concerts, events, and global festivals - the content is now living on Highlark.com.

• Since then, Brittany has worked directly with festivals, artists, music management companies, and larger publications to document music. That path led to her experiences such as: capturing a day in the life of Glass Animals at Forecastle Festival, being invited to shoot CloZee’s first Coachella set on a football stadium size stage, documenting the beauty of festivalgoers at Wonderfruit in Thailand, ingraining herself in the Costa Rican festival culture photographing Envision Festival for several years, to photographing at every venue in Austin and NYC (including Madison Square Garden).

• Brittany was hired by music venues Forest Hills Stadium (Queens, NY) and Empire Control Room (Austin), to capture shows and help with marketing.

• Her passion is documenting communities from a firsthand, participatory perspective… so when the festival community was on pause during the pandemic, Brittany switched focus to what was going on in our country. In 2020, she dedicated 80 straight days to living out of a car and hotels across the country, protesting for Black lives and recording audio interviews + photographing protest communities in 10 cities, with some footage unexpectedly making it into a National Geographic doc. Later in 2020, lived on a community farm for two months in Costa Rica, capturing the lifestyle of true off-the-grid living.

JOURNALISM SAMPLES

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - Video Director and Shooter + Photo + Interview: Article

Iron & Wine concert recap + photos: article

SXSW, Tour Article covering High Waisted: photo + interview story

SXSW, Woodes performance: photo

SXSW, Potty Mouth: photo shoot

SXSW, Hippo Campus performance: photo

Concert: Kamasi Washington & The Budos Band: article

Tour photographer & journalist for Glass Animals at Forecastle Festival | July, 2016 story here

Bonnaroo Festival, | June, 2016 article here

Concert/Event photographer at 2 concert series at Baby's All Right, which I also coordinated/hosted | gallery