On tour with Teddy Swims
I’ve spent the past fourteen years travelling the world, from sleeping on the floor of twelve-passenger vans and driving shifts on a bandwagon, to taking private jets to award shows. It’s been nothing short of a wild ride. I left the metal world behind for an — at the time — small artist by the name of ‘Teddy Swims’, and turned down my dream job, which I’d wanted since middle school, for this small artist. And it’s been the best choice I’ve ever made in my career.
Touring with this team is unlike any other experience I’ve ever had. From a two-hundred-cap club room in Berlin in 2023, to traveling across five continents in the following twelve months in support of the biggest song of 2024 — one that continues to break records — the team and myself have experienced things we never in our wildest dreams thought was possible. This camp is family, through and through. Last year we were on the road for eleven months with our core team. We loved, we fought, we cared — we had no choice.
The amount of love between every individual part of this camp is something I didn’t think was possible in the touring realm. Having a new best friend, who just happens to be my boss, has been more rewarding than I can put into words. Capturing Teddy through the lens that not only he loves and trusts me with, but documenting all of these monumental moments in the first few years of his very long career, I can’t imagine myself anywhere else.
- Photographer and WriterBryce Hall
