Collection: Visages: portraits of musicians and fans

Images from the Visage de Punk show at Cambridge7, July 23, 2018-Oct 19, 2018.

In this series, Visages de Punk, I look into the faces of friends and musicians, in clubs and at parties, close up and far away, always gathering under the umbrella of punk and rock and roll. The photos are shot with a manual focus, fixed 50mm lens on a simple camera loaded with black and white or color negative film. This collection of images is simultaneously simple and expressive; every photo telling you a story with abrupt honesty.

This show presented the opportunity for a conversation about portraits. What are they? Do you have to have a face in a portrait, can it be candid? For Visages de Punk, I chose intimate and connected images where the subject knows that he or she is being shot. Most of these photos were taken around all ages hard core punk rock shows in the mid to late 80’s, but Angelica (my friend who later became a punk, too) was taken in 1981 when I was in 8th grade of my friend at school, and the photos of Heatmiser and Nirvana were taken in the early to mid 1990’s.