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Adrian Boot

Adrian Boot photos featured in all the music papers but his iconic shots of the Sex Pistols with Rotten as a ted are classics.

Bob Gruen

Bob Gruen was another right place right time, not only capturing the early New York punk scene but also the early Sex Pistols & friends.

Dennis Morris

Dennis Morris was a photographer, designer and singer with Basement 5 – worked for Island and was responsible for design for PIL.

Derek Ridgers

Derek Ridger’s photos of the punk era, though capturing the bands, also focussed on the fans who were often more interesting subjects.

Erica Echenberg

Erica Echenberg was a UK music photographer and girlfriend of The Damned’s Brian James who took great Punk pictures in the late seventies.

Ian Dickson

Ian Dickson photos featured in Sounds and he captured all the punk bands as well as managing The Maniacs

Jill Furmanovsky

Jill Furmanovsky in punk supplied pictures to fanzine Sniffin’ Glue and for record covers for Mile’s Copeland’s labels like Step Forward. She also did cover design like Chelsea’s’ Right To Work’.

Mick Mercer

Mick Mercer was an amateur photographer who ran the fanzine Panache. His shots were from the tumult in the crowd but often captured that magic moment.

Pennie Smith

Pennie Smith is best known for two iconic punk covers – The Clash’s ‘London Calling’ and The Slits ‘Cut.’

Ray Stevenson

Ray Stevenson was in the right time and right place to capture the emerging Sex Pistols and friends and some classic iconic shots.

Roberta Bayley

Roberta Bayley is a New York photographer who captured the early punk scene with iconic shots like The Heartbreakers & Richard Hell and did the first Ramones album cover.

Sheila Rock

Sheila Rock captured the fashions and bands and fans of the punk rock era even photographing the infamous Moors Murderers.