This July, London will see the first collaboration between legendary author and punk aficionado Jon Savage (England’s Dreaming) and photography collective Rockarchive.
Under Jon’s guidance, Rockarchive have pulled together some of the world’s best punk images from both sides of the pond. The exhibition features photographers such as Sheila Rock, Roberta Bayley, Richard Mann, Adrian Boot, Bob Gruen, Ray Stevenson and Jill Furmanovsky together for the first time.
The rich visual material with many never-before-seen photographs from the brief but incendiary punk era has resulted in one of the most exciting exhibition’s Rockarchive have ever produced, ‘I Got You In My Camera – Punk 1976-1979’ promises to be a must see for all punk fans and collectors.
I Got You In My Camera - Punk 1976-1979From Wed 2nd July – Sun 27th July 2014
Olympus Rockarchive Image Space Gallery
199 Bishopsgate (entrance on Primrose Street), Broadgate, London EC2M 3TY
Other punk themed evenings will be taking place throughout the exhibition. Check www.rockarchive.com for further details.
Through founder, award-winning photographer, Jill Furmanovsky, Rockarchive has a long relationship with Olympus Cameras. The brand launched their first digital consumer camera at her groundbreaking exhibition, ‘Oasis, Was There Then’ exhibition at the Roundhouse in London in 1997, on the cusp of the digital revolution. Their year- long creative collaboration will continue till the end of the 2014.
Olympus Rockarchive Image Space Gallery
199 Bishopsgate (via Primrose Street), Broadgate, London, EC2M 3TY
The gallery will be open daily from 10.30 to 18.30 (Tues – Sat) and 12.00 to 17.00 (Sundays).
