WHO THE
Jarrod Curry is a visual storyteller, photographer, & marketing operations specialist originally from West “by God” Virginia; then Philadelphia, PA, USA; after that, Shenyang, China; subsequently, Jazan Economic City, Saudi Arabia; then, eventually, Washington, DC, USA; but currently based in Tulsa, OK, USA. He took the photographs, built this website, and is currently writing this third-person sentence.
WHAT THE
ROUGHTUSK.com is a continuation and archive of a hobby I've had for the past 20 years.
Since the early 00's, I've attempted to capture and share photographs of musicians I enjoy. Initially hosting photos on free web services like Geocities and Angelfire, teaching myself to code and design in order to build webpages to host the photos and make them shareable.
Once social media took off, it seemed to make sense to transition to Flickr, then Instagram as the primary channel to share my, for lack of a better term, art. But that shit is boring, limited, and owned by the worst people. So I decided to go back to the World Wide Web.
I launched ROUGHTUSK.com in January 2004, primarily as an archive for older images, but running the site inspired me to get back into photography. Now the site houses both new and old images. The Our Strength Lies in Time Archive features older photographs, from 2003-2007.
In Fall of 2025, in an effort to bring these photos out of the digital realm and into the the world and your vision in a new and different way, I released a print series featuring some of my favorite archive photographs as anaglyph 3D posters. Standard definition (non-3D versions also available. Check out the Print Shop for those.
A new series of prints and my first printed zine are on the way in January 2026.
WHY THE
This project was initially inspired in 2024, when my relocation from Washington, DC to Tulsa, Oklahoma unearthed 100s of my old photographs from the depths of 20+ years of storage across five states and three countries.
Many of the older pictures highlighted here were taken during a convergence of music and people and art in my life that forged me from whatever I was before and continues to shift and shape my perspective in surprising ways – when I first learned how to take pictures as an effort to document the “underground music scene” (my favorite bands) in the early 2000’s.
This is a passion project.
Printed images are available for purchase through Crude Reference Materials Limited.