Record Store Day 2025 was last week… and I’ve been a huge music fan forever so I’m happy to share these images I captured at Princeton Record Exchange for a recent article in Princeton Alumni Weekly.
When I received the job inquiry to shoot a profile of a store & it’s owner in Princeton, I thought, "Awesome, I can do some record shopping at PREX after the shoot." I had a good laugh when told later that PREX was the shoot! Serendipitous.
Outside of Princeton Record Exchange, 20 South Tulane St. Princeton, NJ 08542 - Kyle Kielinski
I made some formal-ish portraits of owner Jon Lambert in the space and then bounced around the store for awhile, documenting the scene and grabbing some detail shots.
Princeton Record Exchange owner, Jon Lambert, holding his favorite album - John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”.
Vinyl enthusiast Heaven.
Way back in the day I wore out the needle of my Superfriends record player spinning “Big Bird Sings” over and over and over. The track “Abc-def-ghi” where Big Bird belts out the alphabet as one long word? Subversive and sublime!
The first pop music record I ever bought for myself was a 45rpm single of Duran Duran’s “Wild Boys”. Sometimes I like to wax nostalgic and think that 8yr old me, nodding my head slowly while playing it at 33rpm was an early indication of my future love of doom & stoner metal.