A photo series of women engaged in music. Dominque Larue Tamia Middle Child Chante' Moore

Toni Braxton For nearly 17 years photojournalist Anthony Alden has been capturing live concert performances of  some of the top national R&B acts in the country.  His work is heralded by many in and out of the urban music industry, and while his style is using a standard focal lens, few photographers have worked with as much creative depth and authenticity as he does.  Carlos Santana Anthony Alden has a great eye for details, capturing spectacular angles you would might have otherwise missed even if you were at the performance. He's excellent at capturing a musician's look of exasperation, whether performing a ballad, doing a guitar solo, or just drenched in sweat. Erykah Badu  " I don't have time to wait for the precise moment to release my shutter, so I have to be perfect tune with my creative instinct." For the past three years Anthony Alden has captured many of the acts appearing at:   Chene Park Amphitheater Detroit and Kinfolks

Sometime I will find a creative lane and stay in it for years. Different chapters of my career I have explored diverse subject matters from portrait to landscape and everything in-between. This next series of photographs explore my diversity in expression. Photographer Anthony Alden Self -Portrait

               Photographer Anthony Alden as a child. Photo taken by father the late Clifton Vines. Anthony Alden Vines, pen name Anthony Alden" is the youngest of ten children, eight boys and two girls.  He grew up in Toledo, Ohio a small Midwestern city located on the doorsteps of Detroit, MI. Anthony was blessed to have creative mentors all around him starting with his father the late photographer Clifton Vines.  Anthony was also mentored by seven brothers. The late Marvin Vines a national acclaimed fine artist and brother documentary photographer the late Thomas Vines set a standard of excellence for Anthony to reach for. "Mason" photo by Anthony Alden Anthonys Grandmother Ethel Washington was a concert pianist and Great  Grandfather Cornelius Edwards started Toledo, Ohio's first African American newspaper 1922 "The Toledo Observer."  In that same tradition Anthony launched Urban Flava Magazine one of the first Midwest urban hi