So recently Evan introduced me to the work of photographer Clayton Hauck.

“If you live in Chicago and have a Myspace or Facebook account, you’ve most likely seen the work of Clayton Hauck. The 25-year-old immortalizes Chicago’s youthful nightlife scene, capturing candid moments of ecstatic DJ bliss, awkward drunken posing, superstar DJs and wannabe celebrities for his photo blog everyoneisfamous.com“

Whilst surfing the net a couple years ago he stumbled upon The Cobra Snake, which is considered the original nightlife photo blog. Noticing there wasn’t anything like it around Chicago he began to point and shoot around town.

“I always had a camera on me, so I just decided to start shooting,” says Hauck, who didn’t really get into photography until his freshmen year at Columbia College. “Now there’s dozens of photo blogs but I was the first to have an actual website that was updated regularly.”

His first-ever posting involved images from Continental’s opening party; today, Everyone is Famous has almost 30,000 photos. The blog has led to paying gigs, too. He now works full-time as a freelance photographer, shooting for various publications and websites.

“Everyone is Famous has always been my portal for getting better and pushing myself to become a better photographer,” he says. “I guess on the larger scale, I’d like to see myself go on to bigger and better things–more exposure for my photography and doing interesting and creative work that people recognize and respect.”

The set up of everyoneisfamous.com is what really drew me in. At first I thought I was looking at some sort of art mag site. Photos are organized by event or venue, and each one is uniquely titled. I spent at least an hour just skimming his hundreds of albums. Give this guy a flickr and you’d probably miss out on a lot of photos, but the albums force you to look at each one as an almost seperate entity.

I’m guessing when this guy isn’t out shooting parties he’s glued to his laptop just uploading and editing photos, or writing in his blog, since he’s got so many gosh darn sites. I actually really enjoyed reading the blog though because it gives a bit of an explaination to the photos. He also links up some cool videos