We recently connected with Luna Rose Wolf and have shared our conversation below.

Luna Rose, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

In 2023, a birthday party evolved into a five-day extravaganza featuring several dozen bands, food trucks, and vendors. It became known as LunaFest ’23, which many complimented for its organization, management, and quality of both artists and vendors. The whole event was run by myself.

I became homeless in late 2023, and while living in the back of my truck, I received a message from one of the attending bands, asking me the impossible – When the 2024 event was happening. I responded that I was unhoused and without connections to perform, and they offered to travel from Florida to help make it happen again.

It did – with over 90 bands, shattering Boulder county records. While the event did ultimately end in a loss due to low attendance, few sponsors, and poor advertisement from the venue’s side, artists and vendors begged for the event to return as frequently as the attendees, and it has formed as Warped Wolf ’25, paying homage to my defunct homebrewery and alleviating confusion with Clif Bar’s LunaFest film festival which has occurred in the same town.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

While I have always been captivated by live music and the art of photography, my journey truly began when it was assumed that I had snuck a professional camera past security at a performance by the late 90’s Nu Metal band Saliva when the venue saw my cell phone shots on Instagram. This was the flint that sparked the purchase of a professional camera, and led to Saliva inviting me to photograph them at Blue Ridge Rock Festival in September of 2022, where I shot dozens of bands including big names like Disturbed, Nelly, and Slipknot.

Shortly after this event, a boudoir photographer offered to shoot me as a model when I was guest shooting her clients, and it delivered such a confidence boost that I decided to offer boudoir sessions myself. This led to my modeling work earning me a spot as a Playboy creator and photographer. I quickly became known for dark and moody photography, especially with involvement with taboo props such as knives, blood, rope, and more.

I have lived at rock bottom myself, so I have never refused a client a session due to lack of funds.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

I’ve been told countless times I have a good eye, but nobody has seemed to notice I have two :P

Seeing clients look at photos I have captured, or seeing their followers react to them when posted to socials lifts my own mood as it puts them in a better light and angle, both literally and figuratively.

How did you build your audience on social media?

Initially, photos I shot for Red Jumpsuit Apparatus went viral on my Instagram account, pulling me well over 160k followers. Sadly, many of them were bots and fake profiles, which destroyed reach.

My advice to anyone trying to build a better social media presence is to avoid attracting, purchasing, or engaging with accounts that follow many thousand people yet are followed by a dozen. These accounts do not interact with your content and affect the number two thing that determines reach – Engagement rate, second only to paid boosts. Your follower count matters to nobody but yourself.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://lle.ltd
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arcticwolf8/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LunaKitten777
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arcticwolf8/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lunarose3335

Image Credits

Luna Rose Wolf/Lunar Lux® Entertainment Ltd.