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Kay Dargen

@kaydargs

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cotton candy photo gal
based in Philly

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a little look behind the curtain of @hotmulligan’s LP4 ‘The Sound a Body Makes When it’s Still’ album art :)

thank you for the assistance (particularly carrying a shockingly heavy hospital bed i got off Craigslist (I didn’t ask questions) up 2 flights of stairs to the studio) @domiveee @beefpattyspecial @smellyryan

can’t wait for everyone to see the full packaging when it ships this summer; worked my lil tail off on those visuals and layout during a tough time and I am proud! not sorry!!!

album art shot on @nikonusa
edited with @photoshop & @lightroom

#hotmulligan #albumart by @kaydargs

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double exposures 👅🎞️
#filmphotography taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @kaydargs

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5 months ago

Here I am with my first batch of my very own Fall Out Boy photos and I am trying and failing to come up with a concise and non cringe caption to express how insane this is. Can’t do it. Will just say:

Thank you Fall Out Boy.

Thank you Hot Mulligan.

Thank you to FOB’s incredible photographer @elliottxingham for going above and beyond by getting me approved to cover them. That is crazy amazing and I can’t wait to pay it forward.

To have tried and failed to get a photo pass for my favorite band like 6 times over the last decade, just to have the band I have been working with for 5 years organically end up opening for them on tour is some next level cosmic poetry

Life is crazy!!!!! by @kaydargs

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3 years ago

Thank you Aftershock 🌞

📸: @kaydargs taken in Sacramento, California by @kaydargs

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14 days ago

Fontaines DC in Atlanta

the guys were watching turnstile and as they were leaving to head to their set, I failed to stop myself from saying hi and asking to snap a photo on my medium format camera. beyond kind of them to oblige :’)

fav band of the last couple years, I am geeked the photo came out whatsoever. had to share. can’t wait for the new album even more now !!

dev and scan by me

#fontainesdc by @kaydargs

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23 days ago

couple shots of Turnstile from this weekend

Always electric to experience a TS performance. magic every time taken in Atlanta, GA by @kaydargs

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25 days ago

Holly and Tom, the coolest parents to be 🐛

thank you to these two for being my first proper client shoot since I moved to Philly 🖤

I’ve got some time the next couple months for photo sessions of whatever kind around the Philly area, keep me in mind :-) by @kaydargs

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a month ago

summer on film: cutie Midwest roadtrip edition taken in I-94 by @kaydargs

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a month ago

got a PR on my run the other night listening to the new Citizen record ‘Halcyon Blues’ for the 20th time. thanks Citizen 🩵

these are from a sweltering day in June at Warped Tour DC taken in Washington D. C. by @kaydargs

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2 months ago

Clouds over Philly

#landscape #philadelphia #timelapse taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @kaydargs

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5 megapixel digicam + big cam dump from all my bday parties over the weekend 😇 sold out metro midnight show w the mulligans into their first Lollapalooza. Surreal !!!

started off 29 with a bit of bad luck; accidentally ruined the roll of film I shot over Lolla weekend (I was due for that one, had a good run the last like 6 months with no film casualties 🤦‍♀️) and then realized somewhere from the hotel after Lolla to my apartment in Philly, my case of memory cards went missing. So RIP to many pics I would have had in here lmao

Oh well!!! what matters is that I was showered in bday love by the band I love getting to work for, their team and their beautiful perfect WAGs who have become some of my most favorite people, my fairytale bf who despite being across the pond makes sure I’ve got bday flowers delivered right when I get home from the airport, and my beloved family and friends near and far

so now the bad luck is out of the way and I’m going into the final year of my 20s w my bad bitch meter absolutely supercharged from getting to bear witness to Zara and Charli and Tate w my friends. Lucky lucky girl

tysm ily 🥳 taken in Chicago by @kaydargs

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I just put up a mega gallery of every 2026 Hot Mulligan crowd photo I’ve got 😮‍💨

Dedicated to everyone who’s wondered if I got a pic of ya at the gig. I’ve shot every show this year and there’s 1200+ photos in there so I hope so! if I missed you though pls don’t hate me but use it as fuel to keep singing along and dancing and crowdsurfing and supporting live music !!!

They’re free to download and share (but I did just make a ko-fi account if you’re feeling generous and wanna toss a girl a tip 👼) and you can purchase prints of all kinds via the gallery

I want nothing more than for my photos to live past hard drives and instagram feeds, so please have them and share them and show your friends and hang them on your walls. I beg!

To the international concert-goers, the prints have kinda brutal shipping rates for outside of the US so I’ll trust ya to download them and print how you want and perhaps ya toss a tip in the ko-fi should should you feel so obliged :-)

thank you for looking!!! I love my job:) link in bio 🏄‍♂️

#hotmulligan taken in The World by @kaydargs

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