had surgery in Ireland. We had a
week off and he had surgery on
his knee. I was in the operating
room wearing scrubs shooting
the whole thing. I actually photographed him in the operating
room while he was unconcious
having surgery. In the hospital,
the nurses would ask ‘What are
you going to do with these photos?’ and he’d always say, ‘Oh,
they’ll do a book after I’m dead!”
Jon gets it. What I like about
working for him is that he gets it.
You’ve got to at least shoot it. If
you don’t shoot it, you don’t have
the choice. If you shoot the pictures you can decide not to run
them, but if you don’t shoot the
images then you don’t even have
the option of publishing them one
day. So let’s just document them
and figure it out later.
I never thought these would see
the light of day and I kept them
close to the vest. Jon came up
with the title “Work” and the book
is really about the band’s work
ethic, their hard work, and the effort they put into everything they
do. To me, this was a good part of
his story — about how he pushed
through injury and came back and
didn’t miss a single show. So I
kind of said, ‘Jon, the knee story is
really important here and I’d love
to get it in.’ He agreed. He said
something really great. He said
‘If this inspires one kid to push
through the pain and come back
stronger on the other side then
it’s worth it.” That was pretty cool
and I was pleasantly surprised
that he was willing to put out such
intimate photos of himself. It’s a
side of him that he doesn’t usu-
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