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.

Beyond the punk explosion, 1977 was a kaleidoscopic year of disco fever, prog ambition, funk, soul and the birth of ...

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 ...

We weren’t innocent lambs by 1977. Even tuba-playing virgins who lived in half-finished, rural Georgia subdivisions knew the times they had a-changed. Television had shown us all about it. Several ...

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 ...

Images of Johnny Rotten resting against a chimney stack, and Toyah Wilcox springing from a coffin feature in a new exhibition of photos taken at the height of the punk craze in 1970s London.

There is always more than a generous ripple of interest when we run anything punkish on Londonist — whether it's 14 Hair-Raising Pics Of Punk London In Its Heyday or our guide on Where To Be Punk In ...

Buzzcocks, as they were on the cover of their debut album ‘Another Music In A Different Kitchen’ Buzzcocks had emerged with punk yet weren’t going along with it or, rather, what it had been reflexedly ...

As Danny Boyle releases his new Sex Pistols miniseries, we channel London’s 1977 punk explosion through the only medium we know how: cushions and posters, obviously. Even if you weren’t born back then ...

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 ...