Category: Punk Rock

Sinecure Books – California Beach, California Punk: Sounds of Two Eyes Opening | LensCulture

California Beach, California Punk: Sounds of Two Eyes Opening – Photographs by Spot | LensCulture

Iconic photos from the golden days of California punk—these amazing captures from behind the scenes were taken by Spot, a legendary music producers who was there, at the heart of it all

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sinecure-books-california-beach-california-punk-sounds-of-two-eyes-opening

Until now, Spot was known as the legendary hardcore punk producer/engineer who worked with such bands as the Misfits, Black Flag and Minutemen (among many others). But as the photos in this newly published book reveal, there was another side to this creative, sensitive mind all along. Besides offering an intriguing view from the perspective of an era’s central figure, the images also paint a wonderful picture of a period, a place, a style and a moment that was intensely lived but now remains with us only through the music, the memories and this newly revealed body of photographs

January 8, 2015
Juxtapoz Magazine – Lucian Perkins’ Photos of the DC Punk Scene

Juxtapoz Magazine – Lucian Perkins’ Photos of the DC Punk Scene

In 1979, photographer Lucian Perkins, who was at the time an intern for the Washington Post, found himself in the middle of the fast growing DC punk s…

Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/lucian-perkins-photos-of-the-dc-punk-scene

In 1979, photographer Lucian Perkins, who was at the time an intern for the Washington Post, found himself in the middle of the fast growing DC punk scene

November 8, 2014
From Skinheads to Fashion: British Photographer Gavin Watson Discusses His Career – Feature Shoot

From Skinheads to Fashion: British Photographer Gavin Watson Discusses His Career – Feature Shoot

As a young teen from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, British photographer Gavin Watson captured the insular life of the skinhead scene in 1980’s England. Famous for his two books on skinhead life, Skins and Skins and Punks, Watson later ventured into the b

via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/10/photographer-gavin-watson-discusses-punk-skinhead-scene-1980s-england/

I photographed it because I was a coward — I’ve never asked a stranger if I could take their photograph. I was safe with my friends. That’s why I was a skinhead — because I felt safe, and safe to photograph them. My thoughts at the time about being a professional photographer was doing weddings or whatever! (Laughs) It wasn’t until someone other than my mates saw them and said ‘fucking hell!’”

October 29, 2014
Juxtapoz Magazine – Edward Colver’s “Idle Worship @ Lethal Amounts, LA

Juxtapoz Magazine – Edward Colver’s “Idle Worship @ Lethal Amounts, LA

Between 1978-1984, photographer Edward Colver documented the Los Angeles underground scenes and subcultures that included the adolescent beginnings of…

Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/edward-colver-s-idle-worship-lethal-amounts-la

Between 1978-1984, photographer Edward Colver documented the Los Angeles underground scenes and subcultures that included the adolescent beginnings of punk, hardcore, New Wave, Industrial, thrash, ETC. Photographing relentlessly, Colver shot thousands of bands that would later become the most iconic musicians of their generation and genres. On September 20th in Los Angeles, Lethal Amounts will be presenting Colver’s work in an exhibition entitled Idle Worship.

September 12, 2014
Chris Suspect: Suspect Device at photokina 2014 #DasWesentliche « The Leica Camera

Chris Suspect: Suspect Device at photokina 2014 #DasWesentliche

30 years ago I went to my first punk show in the DC area. It was Naked Raygun, TSOL, MIA, Government Issue and the Cereal Killers at WUST Hall. Back then I didn’t have a camera nor the balls to photograph the bands, punks and skinheads at these shows, but I remembered the energy, the fun and the danger that swirled like a tornado at these events. For the last four years, I’ve been shooting the current hardcore and punk scene in DC and Baltimore which has been making waves in our area and beyond

September 5, 2014
Gorgeous photos from the recent Afropunk fest in NYC by photographer Driely S. – Boing Boing

Gorgeous photos from the recent Afropunk fest in NYC by photographer Driely S.

Impressions of a style-filled event we wish we’d attended.

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/09/03/gorgeous-photos-from-the-recen.html

C-heads Magazine has a 2-part photo essay from the recent Afropunk music festival in NYC, “rad impressions shot by Brazilian origin but NYC based photographer Driely S.”

September 4, 2014
Afropunks, Come as You Are

Afropunks, Come as You Are

Phil Knott’s portraits of the Afropunk scene show “the other black experience” among fans of alternative music.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/afropunks-come-as-you-are/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0&gwh=DB11F53002DA98C68386134C30602155&gwt=pay

A group of researchers at Yale just launched “a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).”

August 22, 2014
Pogo Dancing in Myanmar

Pogo Dancing in Myanmar

Photographer Olaf Schuelke happens upon an illegal punk rock concert in Yangon.

via Roads & Kingdoms: http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/pogo-dancing-in-myanmar/

n the eve of this year’s Water Festival in Myanmar’s main city, a colorful crowd gathers under an inner-city bridge with passing cars on two levels. An illegal punk rock concert is about to start, with half a dozen local punk bands — Kultureshock, Rebel Riot and Chaos in Burma — on the lineup. Applying for any sort of permit for these types of events is a painstaking process that usually ends in rejection, so this gathering is truly underground. The police are expected to show up at any moment.

May 12, 2014
The Backyard Punk Scene in East L.A. Photographed by Angela Boatwright

The Backyard Punk Scene in East L.A. Photographed by Angela Boatwright – Feature Shoot

In East Los, part of the Living Off the Wall documentary series by Vans, documentarian Angela Boatwright takes a candid, in-depth look into the punk-rock scene in East Lost Angeles. In addition to five short documentary pieces, East Los includes a satisfy

via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/03/east-los-angela-boatwright/#!AvJQI

In East Los, part of the Living Off the Wall documentary series by Vans, documentarian Angela Boatwright takes a candid, in-depth look into the punk-rock scene in East Lost Angeles. In addition to five short documentary pieces, East Los includes a satisfying collection of still images by the bi-coastal photographer.

March 19, 2014
Book Review: Punk Press

Book Review: Punk Press

Punk Press . Edited by Vincent Berniere and Mariel Primois. Abrams Books, 2013. Punk Press Reviewed by Blake Andrews Punk Pres…

Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/04/book-review-punk-press.html

Punk is unpolished. In fact that’s sort of the point of it. Grainy half-tones from old magazines bleeding into the gutter are completely appropriate. String a few hundred together in herky-jerky order, number the pages by hand, and you’ve got Punk Press the book, a wonderful assortment of posters, essays, rants, and clippings from old punk magazines circa 1968-1980

April 15, 2013
Pari Dukovic’s Photographs of the Punk Culture in Southeast Asia

Burma Wave

Dukovic said that his experience documenting this growing movement in Yangon, as well as and in Jakarta and Banda Aceh, in Indonesia, was eye-opening: …

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/03/burma-wave-pari-dukovics-photographs-of-the-punk-culture-in-southeast-asia.html#slide_ss_0=1

In Myanmar, a small punk community that stayed underground through decades of military rule is beginning to emerge

March 18, 2013
Mark Murrmann: Just a Performance

Link: The Leica Camera

There’s an element of trying to capture a realness, a kind of spontaneity to both that’s appealing. But of course in punk, like just about anything else, there’s definitely an element of performance, controlled chaos and building off of what’s come before. To that end, covering music, especially larger bands, reminds me of when I was covering Congress. It’s funny, when I’ve shown my portfolio to editors, I’ve been knocked on more than one occasion for including music photography. I was told that work is “just capturing a performance.” Hell, outside of spot news or street photography, just about everything a photojournalist shoots is “just a performance.” Sports? No doubt. Politics? Hell yes. Especially today, in the reality show soaked world we’re living in, you pull out a camera and people perform

February 24, 2012
The Beautiful and The Damned: Punk Photography by Ann Summa – Boing Boing

The Beautiful and The Damned: Punk Photography by Ann Summa

Iggy Pop More than 60 images of L.A.’s early punk scene shot by photographer Ann Summa between 1978 and 1984 make up “The Beautiful and the Damned”, a show on display at Track 16 …

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html

More than 60 images of L.A.’s early punk scene shot by photographer Ann Summa between 1978 and 1984 make up “The Beautiful and the Damned”, a show on display at Track 16 Gallery at the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica. Following, in this post: a photo gallery of selected shots featured in the show.

October 16, 2010
DOUBLE CROSS: Fred Hammer's Nardcore Top 10

Fred Hammer’s Nardcore Top 10

Fred Hammer is Nardcore. We’ve been meaning to pick his brain on what he feels are the top ten Nardcore records of all time. Take it awa…

Link: http://doublecrosswebzine.blogspot.com/2010/09/fred-hammers-nardcore-top-10.html

Fred Hammer is Nardcore. We’ve been meaning to pick his brain on what he feels are the top ten Nardcore records of all time.

September 2, 2010
Maximum Rocknroll: Kick-Ass Photos From Iconic Punk Mag | Raw File

Maximum Rocknroll: Kick-Ass Photos From Iconic Punk Mag

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/05/gallery-maximum-rocknroll/

This year MRR released its first photography issue, interviewing punk shooters and showcasing contributions from MRR’s global readership.

Punk’s in-your-face aesthetic is as different from detached rock stars as Maximum’s anti-commercial stance is from corporate magazines. Despite the dire financial straights of many media outlets, including MRR, the photo issue has sold out, proving there’s still life underground.

May 17, 2010
Slug and Lettuce – Punk/DIY Online Photo Archives Have Arrived! – WFMU

Slug and Lettuce – Punk/DIY Online Photo Archives Have Arrived!

Chris Boarts Larson is always busy, and always smiling. She is the creator of Slug and Lettuce fanzine, a free quarterly publication that celebrated it’s 20 year anniversary in 2007 with issue #90. Starting in NYC, Slug and Lettuce was…

via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/04/slug-and-lettuce-diy-online-photo-archives.html

Chris Boarts Larson is always busy, and always smiling. She is the creator of Slug and Lettuce fanzine, a free quarterly publication that celebrated it’s 20 year anniversary in 2007 with issue #90. Starting in NYC, Slug and Lettuce was the zine that took days and days to read because it was so packed with information, columns, reviews, comics and Chris’ amazing live band photos.

April 26, 2010
lila schaffler – my collections | burn magazine

lila schaffler – my collections

[slidepress gallery=’lilaschaffler_mycollections’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Lila Schaffler My Collections play this e…

via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/12/lila-schaffler-my-collections/

It seems have been taking my camera on walks since the age of twelve. I have collected more images than I could even begin to put a number on. I wanted to show some of my collections in a way that made sense to how and what I see. There was nothing easy about the edit, and still I can’t be certain that I chose the right ones…But I suppose that’s part of the beauty of it all, when you really stop an look. Some of the images have been exhibited, some published, but I’ve never quite had the opportunity to show them as I’ve wanted to, as an essay…A collection of sorts. My collections.

December 15, 2009
Scenes From the Beijing Rock Underground | Raw File

Scenes From the Beijing Rock Underground

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/12/gallery-beijing-rock-underground/

Matthew Niederhauser became immersed in Chinese culture as he traveled through the country and researched its urban development and the impact of cultural tourism in Tibet. In 2007 he stumbled upon a small but passionate group of rockers in Beijing who stood apart from cultural norms. He picked up a camera and started shooting. After two years he had an impressive collection of band photos and a unique understanding of the scene.

December 15, 2009
Man accused of extorting money in punk rock scene

Man accused of extorting money in punk rock scene — chicagotribune.com:

A founding member of a group that allegedly uses violence to control the punk rock scene in clubs and at concerts in major U.S. cities was charged with extorting a Chicago-area recording artist, federal authorities said Tuesday.

Elgin Nathan James, identified by authorities as a founder of a street gang called FSU, was arrested Monday at his Los Angeles home after a federal criminal complaint was unsealed in Chicago.

July 16, 2009
DOUBLE CROSS: Pat Longrie part II

From DOUBLE CROSS: Pat Longrie part II:

The Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, MDC and the Zero Boys played a show at “Old Town” in Westminster, California in 1983…the most powerful, electric, eclectic bill I ever saw. Old Town was where the Oktoberfest festival occurred each year so it was, to say the least, an odd partnership to begin with. The Zero Boys from Indiana were smoking. I had never heard of them before but they ripped. MDC was fantastic. Minor Threat was it.

Check it out here.

April 10, 2009