Prince: Icon with Steven Parke, Greg Helgeson, and St. Paul Peterson

The most opulent visual anthology of Prince that has ever been published, Prince: Icon gathers images by renowned and little-known photographers from around the world, close friends, and colleagues, as well as album covers, photographs of performances and rehearsals, rarely seen private moments, and candid snapshots. A must for the Prince devotee in all of us.

Steve Parke is an award-winning photographer and author of Picturing Prince, which was published by Hachette in 2017. He was Prince’s in-house art director for over a decade at Paisley Park, overseeing numerous creative projects from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Other past and current clients have included Fortune 1000 firms such as Warner Brothers, HBO, Discovery Channel, Arista Records, DC/Vertigo Comics, Houghton Mifflin, and NBC and A-list entertainers like Sheila E., Victor Wooten, David Bowie, Stanley Clarke, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, and AC/DC. He currently works as in-house photographer and photo editor for the quarterly print magazine Enchanted Living, which the NY Times described as what would happen if “Martha Stewart Living and Edmund Spenser’s ‘The Faerie Queene’ had a magazine baby.”

In addition, Mr. Parke was the digital artist for first of its kind graphic novel I, Paparazzi, which was published by DC/Vertigo Comics in 2001 and received a grade of A from Entertainment Weekly. He followed that in 2002 with In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, the first ever all digitally photographed graphic novel which was nominated alongside Stephen King and IDW’s 30 Days of Night for YALSA’s best horror novel in 2005. He was also the chief photographer and director for the graphic novel project Medusa’s Daughter in 2012. In 2018, he was the chief photographer for the Simon & Schuster book Faerie Knitting by Alice and Lisa Hoffman.

His photo work has been shown at the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, galleries in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Porto, and London. He’s given numerous talks about photography, painting, creativity, working with Prince, and working with creatives generally.

He also once played a dead drug dealer on Homicide: Life on the Street.

St. Paul Peterson is the youngest member of The Peterson Family; known as the First Family of Music in MN.

Prince discovered Paul aka “St Paul,” at the age of 17. He enlisted him as a keyboard player in “The Time” for the movie “Purple Rain.”

Paul took the lead vocalist spot in the Prince-produced group “The Family” before becoming a solo artist and scoring hits for MCA and Atlantic Records.

He has recorded or toured with artists ranging from the Steve Miller Band to Peter Frampton, Kenny Loggins, and Donny Osmond.
Greg Helgeson has a B.A. in Photojournalism from the University of Minnesota. Began my photography career for the last 40+ years working in primarily in the music/arts areas. Worked as photographer for Alternative publications in Minneapolis and my images have been featured in world-renowned publications as Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, local publications as the Star Tribune, Du Monde (Paris) and Mojo amongst others. My photos have been used for the Cover Art of the (first) Replacements album. In addition, a book of my photos Hijinx & Hearsay from the Mn.Historical Society and the Cover photos from Bob Mehr’s book on the Replacements “Trouble Boys” amongst numerous other books. For the last 44 years worked as the Minnesota Orchestra’ photographer.

St. Paul recently released “Break on Free” on Leopard Records out of Germany and has been touring with St. Paul and the Minneapolis Funk All Stars worldwide.

He also releases a weekly 1-minute jam on social media called Funk Friday, inviting musicians from bands like Hall and Oates, Earth Wind and Fire, Chicago, Fleetwood Mac and more. As of September 2024, he has released 235 consecutive weekly episodes.

St. Paul has a podcast called Music on the Run that focuses on how traveling artists survive physically, mentally and with their relationships while away from home. Guests have included Steve Miller, Kenny Loggins, Jimmy Jam, Sinbad, Debbie Gibson, Donny Osmond, and Cory Wong to name a few.

St. Paul is the current president of the Rotary Club of Edina, 24/25.

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