Derek Ridgers spent 1977 deep in the back alleys of London, dodging flailing limbs and saliva in the city’s mosh pits in order to capture its then-exploding punk scene with a borrowed camera.
When punk started, I was just a music fan with a borrowed camera. I used to photograph bands by jumping into the photo pit and pretending to be a real photographer – in those days, there was little or ...
In the mid-’70s, two student photographers documented the London punk scene in its gritty infancy. Those photos are now featured in a new exhibition and a limited edition monograph. In Shakespeare’s ...
Disney’s “Cruella” is both a live-action “101 Dalmatians” origin story and an ode to 1970s London. It’s set at the height of the punk rock era, when an “anything goes” mentality ruled music, fashion ...
As a teenager in a dying seaside town on the east coast of Scotland, punk rock was like a bat signal from a more exciting world. The centre of that world was London, a city where even the boredom was ...
Brian Clarke in 1985: ‘I’m interested in rendering the commonplace sublime’ - Len Trievnor ​Sir Brian Clarke, who has died the day before his 72nd birthday, was once described in The ...
It’s been nearly 45 years since Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon first exhibited “Punks,” their photo series capturing the style and sensibilities of young people who were part of the 1970s London punk ...