Meet Leah Barylsky, the Woman Behind the Camera – And On the Stage — During Rüfüs Du Sol’s Record-Breaking Tour
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Leah Barylsky has been Rüfüs Du Sol’s camerawoman for eight years. On the Inhale/Exhale tour — the highest-grossing electronic tour of all time — she became something more.
Por Billboard | 29/10/2026
If you saw Rüfüs Du Sol ‘s recent Inhale/Exhale world tour — which sold an incredible 1.7 million tickets, according to Billboard Boxscore — you likely noticed a fourth person onstage giving their own impressive performance. That was Leah Barylsky, Rüfüs’ camerawoman. Moving with such incredible grace and stamina that fans started filming videos of her filming the performance, Barylsky was crucial to creating the show’s visual feel, pace and intimacy as she, with her camera, got up close to the group’s Tyrone Lindqvist, James Hunt and Jon George. Related Rüfüs Du Sol Is the First Electronic Artist to Hit These Major Boxscore Milestones Hayden Panettiere's Death Ruled as Accidental, Case Closed: Reports Forrest Frank Sets Release Date for New Album 'The Jesus Generation' “It’s my perspective, and what fan doesn’t want to be up there and have the opportunity to see through my lens?” she says. Of course, roving camera people are a feature of most major tours. But Barylsky’s work is differentiated by how close she gets to each member of the band, in moments filming just inches from their faces and instruments, and how fluidly and elegantly she moves while doing this work. “Dancing with the band is how I approach it mentally,” she says. “I consider what I do more dancing than anything.” With the Inhale/Exhale tour encompassing 98 headlining shows along with festival dates over the last two years, Barylsky has had plenty of opportunity to dance. Rüfüs’ motion director, Barylsky is a longtime (and full-time) member of the team who on this tour has been onstage for 10-13 songs per show, roughly half the performance. Her work is not only artistic but athletic, requiring serious coordination as she moves at a rapid pace, her camera giving a live feed to the massive LED screens on each side of the stage. Barylsky says she’s doing so much onstage that her Oura Ring doesn’t even pick up all the movement, “so I’ve never had an understanding of the steps I take.” “It’s funny that when [the audience] sees her working, they want to know the step count,” says Rüfüs’ creative director Katzki. “I don’t think they fully understand what she is actually giving them. It is not only incredibly athletic and physical, but is a live interpretation of the music happening in that moment… People don’t understand how much it changes how you hear the music. It’s just someone shooting the show with a camera and running around, but there is second-by-second instinctive decision making. You feel it.” Barylsky grew up in Hawaii filming weddings and local concerts. When her sister moved to Los Angeles to become a flight attendant in 2017, Barylsky – seeing an opportunity to pursue her own career – went with. In L.A., she met Lindqvist, George and Hunt through a mutual friend while they were writing their 2018 album Solace . “We were instant friends,” she says. “From there, it was just that I always