Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour: Taylor-Gating in Denver /  by Liz Brown

This one was extra special; even from the parking lot, it was one of the best concerts of my life. I hope you can feel it, too.

xoxo Liz

P.S. If you see yourself and would like your photo, please email me at estorie@outlook.com (specify which image is you!). If you’d like to hire me, please email me, too. Lastly, if you’d like to support a local artist, my venmo is @estorie. If everyone I photographed sent me even just a little, I could easily pay my bills for the next month! Thank you!

P.P.S. The other nights I’ve photographed can be found here:
Tampa, night 2
Tampa, night 3
Nashville, night 1
Nashville, night 1 (the bridge)
Detroit, night 1
Denver, night 1
Los Angeles, night 3
Los Angeles, night 4
Los Angeles, night 6
LA night 6 Taylorgating & 1989 announcement

Gracie & Muna

So make the friendship bracelets…

It’s been a long time coming…

“Say you’ll remember me, standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, babe” I’ll never forget that feeling.

“Marjorie”

Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour: Fan Fashion, Denver night 2 /  by Liz Brown

welcome to the eras tour!

Denver was amazing: one of the longest and best days I’ve ever lived. Thank you so much for your patience as I edited and uploaded these hundreds of photos of your lovely faces and dresses. You are so creative and I wish I could do this every day, forever.

xoxo Liz

P.S. If you see yourself and would like your photo, please email me at estorie@outlook.com (specify which image is you!). If you’d like to hire me, please email me, too. Lastly, if you’d like to support a local artist, my venmo is @estorie. If everyone I photographed sent me even just a little, I could easily pay my bills for the next month! Thank you!

P.P.S. The other nights I’ve photographed can be found here:
Tampa, night 2
Tampa, night 3
Nashville, night 1
Nashville, night 1 (the bridge)
Detroit, night 1
Denver, night 1
Los Angeles, night 3
Los Angeles, night 4
Los Angeles, night 6
LA night 6 Taylorgating & 1989 announcement

…ready for it?

debut

fearless

speak now

Red

1989

Reputation

lover

folklore & evermore

Midnights

Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour: Taylor-Gating & 1989 announcement Los Angeles night 6 /  by Liz Brown

I don’t know if I’ve ever been so tired as I was after this week. I walked over 50 miles and worked from about 2pm until 1am every day. But it was so worth it and I’ve never felt more like I’m meant to be somewhere or do something as I did during this summer, photographing Taylor Swift fans and their creativity and community. I’d do it again in a heartbeat. I’d do this every weekend for the rest of my life and never get bored. Thank you to all the girlies who let me dance beside them and let me take a photo of them on their best days. ilysb <3

You know what song this is. <3

The security guard was singing and wanted to come over to trade bracelets, literally so cute.

1, 2, 3 LET’S GO BITCH on the outside barricade!!

during 22 <3

The cardigan being celebrated during “Cardigan.”

This dude was running across the front of the crowd and hyping everyone up and if there are going to be men in my life, this is the only energy I will accept from them.

The area with the largest crowd (where most of these photos were taken) had cool seating options and Taylor was super audible—however, we couldn’t see anything. A few folks had the livestreams pulled up on their phones and screams erupted every time she walked out in a new blue outfit. As I was walking around later, though, I found this iconic projector setup. You can’t tell me Swifties aren’t ingenious—this is my Superbowl.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) Announcement

the moment we knew <3

Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour: Fan Fashion Los Angeles night 6 /  by Liz Brown

This was one of the best weeks of my life. So surreal and beautiful. Thank you for letting me be a part of your best day. Stay beautiful, Los Angeles.

xoxo Liz

P.S. If you see yourself and would like your photo, please email me at estorie@outlook.com (specify which image is you!). If you’d like to hire me, please email me, too. Lastly, if you’d like to support a local artist, my venmo is @estorie. If everyone sent me even $20, I could pay my bills for the next month! Thank you!

P.P.S. The other nights I’ve photographed can be found here:
Tampa, night 2
Tampa, night 3
Nashville, night 1
Nashville, night 1 (the bridge)
Detroit, night 1
Denver, night 1
Los Angeles, night 3
Los Angeles, night 4

debut

fearless

speak now

“I had the time of my life, fighting dragons with you.” (This was their idea and honestly, I’m obsessed. Perfect execution, no notes.)

10 points if you get this reference.

Red

1989

reputation

Shoutout to Magic Wheelchair for this amaaaaazing Love-meets-Reputation snake chair.

lover

folklore & evermore

Midnights

Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour: Fan Fashion, Los Angeles night 4 /  by Liz Brown

This was one of the best weeks of my life. So surreal and beautiful. Thank you for letting me be a part of your best day. Stay beautiful, Los Angeles.

xoxo Liz

P.S. If you see yourself and would like your photo, please email me at estorie@outlook.com (specify which image is you!). If you’d like to hire me, please email me, too. Lastly, if you’d like to support a local artist, my venmo is @estorie. If everyone sent me even $20, I could pay my bills for the next month! Thank you!

P.P.S. The other nights I’ve photographed can be found here:
Tampa, night 2
Tampa, night 3
Nashville, night 1
Nashville, night 1 (the bridge)
Detroit, night 1
Denver, night 1
Los Angeles, night 3

the eras tour

debut

fearless

red

1989

repuation

lover

folklore & evermore

midnights

Taylor-Gating

Taylor Swift Eras Tour: Fan Fashion, Los Angeles night 3 /  by Liz Brown

This was one of the best weeks of my life. So surreal and beautiful. Thank you for letting me be a part of your best day. Stay beautiful, Los Angeles.

xoxo Liz

P.S. If you see yourself and would like your photo, please email me at estorie@outlook.com (specify which image is you!). If you’d like to hire me, please email me, too. Lastly, if you’d like to support a local artist, my venmo is @estorie. If everyone sent me even $20, I could pay my bills for the next month! Thank you!

P.P.S. The other nights I’ve photographed can be found here:
Tampa, night 2
Tampa, night 3
Nashville, night 1
Nashville, night 1 (the bridge)
Detroit, night 1
Denver, night 1

the eras tour

debut

fearless

speak now

red

1989

repuation

lover

folklore & evermore

I knooooow folklore and evermore are two separate eras, but the outfits for them tend to blend together and there aren’t often enough images separate sections. <3

Midnights

taylor-gating

The two girlies on the last photo were taylor-gating while their kids were at the show inside. They used to be neighbors, but hadn’t seen each other in years, and decided that this was the perfect reunion. We chatted for at least 20 minutes, they shared their drinks with me, and the whole interaction was one of the most delightful parts of my trip.

Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour: Fan Fashion, Denver night 1 /  by Liz Brown

I’ve typically divided each post by era, but I’m doing something different with this one, since I’ve got so many photos from before the show and during the show. We’ll have our intro (Taylor-gating in the parking lots beforehand), a verse for every era, a chorus (Eras Tour vibes in general), and an outro (the parking lot celebrations during the show). Thank you for letting me be a part of your best day.

xoxo Liz

P.S. If you see yourself and would like your photo, please email me at estorie@outlook.com (specify which image is you!). If you’d like to hire me, please email me, too. Lastly, if you’d like to support a local artist, my venmo is @estorie. If everyone sent me even $20, I could pay my bills for the next month! Thank you!

P.P.S. The other nights I’ve photographed can be found here:
Tampa, night 2
Tampa, night 3
Nashville, night 1
Nashville, night 1 (the bridge)
Detroit, night 1

the intro (Taylor-gating)

“You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.” Thsi group of gals was THE most fun. They had games with prizes, a cocktail menu, Taylor’s cookie recipe, and banners. 10/10 Eras Tour parking lot setup.

An interlude: Karaoke

Some folks set up a karaoke station by one of the gates and when I say I am obsessed! It was such a pure moment, girlies singing, other folks walking by and dancing and singing along. The joy it brought was tangible, beautiful, singable.

verse 1 (debut)

verse 2 (fearless)

verse 3 (Speak Now)

verse 4 (red)

verse 5 (1989)

Chorus (the Eras Tour)

verse 6 (reputation)

verse 7 (Lover)

Verse 8 (folklore)

Verse 9 (evermore)

verse 10 (midnights)

Outro (parking lot celebration)

These two took off running shortly after I took this photo; we watched them, curious, and saw them run up the hill and into the venue—our whole section internally cheering for their success!

long live.

Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour: Fan Fashion, Detroit night 1 /  by Liz Brown

welcome to detroit—it’s been waiting for you!

I was talking to some new friends last night about how special this project has been: I get to bear witness to people’s best days, to document their best dresses, and to see firsthand their fearless determination to make it to these shows. There’s so much hard work and camaraderie and joy that lead into this spaces and I get to be a fly on the wall for all this beauty. Every time, both in photographing these days and in writing about them, I tear up because this is so special. It’s the intersection of fashion, music, community—all my favorite things—and I could do this forever. Thank you so much for trusting me with your faces, you stories, your best days.

xoxo Liz

P.S. If you see yourself and would like your photo, please email me at estorie@outlook.com (specify which image is you!). If you’d like to hire me, please email me, too. Lastly, if you’d like to support a local artist, my venmo is @estorie. Thank you!

P.P.S. The other nights I’ve photographed can be found here:
Tampa, night 2
Tampa, night 3
Nashville, night 1
Nashville, night 1 (the bridge)

the eras tour

debut

fearless

speak now

red

1989

reputation

lover

folklore

evermore

midnights

I had the best day with you today

so make the friendship bracelets

you can face this

Taylor Swift Eras Tour: Fan Fashion, Nashville night 1 /  by Liz Brown

Taylor has a little speech before “All Too Well (Ten Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)” where she talks about how she’s written about some of the most painful moments of her life and she wasn’t sure how she’d be able to sing them in front of a crowd like this—seventy thousand, no less! But the fans, the listeners, the readers, the swifties, transformed the song into something differently entirely as they listened to it, championed it, understood it, sang it back to her. Instead of ten minutes of pain, the song became ten minutes of beauty, of connection.

This grandma-granddaughter due made their own shirts to mimic the Eras Tour poster, featuring photos of the two of them.

I could dwell on all the ways my day in Nashville went wrong, from the three hours of sleep to getting stranded in Indiana (don’t ride Greyhound, like ever), but instead I want to dwell on, to remember those moments of connection. Every time I think: what if I didn’t go, I’d have saved so much money and gained so much sleep—then I remember Gillian and Meredith and the other people I talked to throughout the day. I don’t want to give those moments, those conversations, those connection, those memories up. So herein likes the exchange.

This gal is a teacher (she saw several of her students at the show). She began designing her jacket to feature her favorite songs, but as the project progressed, she decided to add more details and ended up added some sort of design (some where small) for every single Taylor Swift song. The dedication!!!

Giving up the past pain means also exchanging the connection and in this case, the cost isn’t worth it. So I sit in my Music City Thrift camo cargo pants (a huge thank you to the person at Crema that recommended it because it was AMAZING) and remind myself of the same thing Taylor reminds herself and reminds us every weekend: the story can be rewrtitten, the songs can be recorded, the memory can be something beautiful, if only you sing along.

This time around, it felt like I took less photos (I didn’t) because I had more conversations. I’m excited to share some of these stories with you. This is Eras Tour Nashville, night 1. The sections are organized, more or less, by eras, with the exception of the first two sections. <3

on a wednesday, I mean Friday, in cafe

Even before I actually officially began working, I met a few folks at coffee shops (because really all I ever do is thrift and drink coffee when I travel) and asked to take their photos.

this is what it feels like

I’ve been photographing Gracie for a few years and it made me so happy that she had fans who turned out to Eras Tour just for her!!!

and i’m wearing my heart on my sleeve

and that’s the way i loved you

if this was a movie

That skirt was handmade by the gal wearing it and there’s a layer for every era—I never would’ve thought to do something so creative!

This person told me they were hoping boygenius would appear during Phoebe’s set—and they were dressed up as the actual story of us. So if you need someone to manifest something, this is your person.

and you were tossing me your car keys…

Starbucks lovers

‘cause look at your face

Guys. This Twister outfit. Original, creative, water resistant. Literally mastermind-level of creativity.

You can’t forget the getaway car.

it’s a cruel summer with you

These gals had a whole table set up in the parking lot where they gave away free bracelets and also let swifties make their own—I am obsessed.

giving me your weekends

Read the mom’s shirt.

long story short, i survived

midnights become my afternoons

Her fella was there, too, but he wasn’t really dressed up, so he let her have he main character moment and I’m obsessed with that energy.

This couple was walking in front of me (that is candid!) and I scurried up to nervously ask them for a photo, but there was no need to be nervous because they were super nice and so eager to dress up and pose!

Joey was honestly one of the most high-energy fun swifties I’ve met! We made eye contact from across the merch area and he was ready for that photo!

And just like any great Taylor Swift song, the night ended with a bridge…