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SNL's top photographer reveals secrets behind those celebrity host shoots
Photographer Mary Ellen Matthews reveals how she creates SNL's 'bumper' shots featuring that week's host and musical guests in cinematic-style photos that segue into the commercial break.
Mary Ellen Matthews is the photographic genius behind the Saturday Night Live'bumper' shots, which feature that week's host and musical guests in cinematic-style photos that segue into the commercial break. Her lens has been capturing a conveyor belt of world stardom for 25 years, framing them in incredible staged images that can include props from a giant martini glass to rubber chickens as she nails SNL's sense of humor. Matthews channeled rock legend Jimi Hendrix setting light to his Fender Stratocaster guitar at the 1967 Monterey pop festival for this astonishing shot of NFL great Travis Kelce
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