Sheila Rock

Young Punks

Published 9th April

ISBN: 9781913172152

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Sheila Rock is a professional photographer living in London. Her work is housed in a permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery and has featured in numerous books and magazines. Sheila was a regular photographer for The Face and shot many of its covers. The photo journalistic images of the Punk scene in this updated, reprinted and repackaged edition of Young Punks - out 9th April on Omnibus Press - were taken in the early stages of Sheila’s career and feature some of its main creative and musical protagonists: Paul Weller and The Jam, Robert Smith, John Lydon, The Buzzcocks, The Damned and Siouxsie and the Banshees, to name a few.

With chapter titles including Fashion, Tribe, Music, Scene, Influence and Legacy, of equal importance are her candid reportage shots of the ordinary people who helped create and shape the Punk scene from its inception through music, fashion and lifestyle choices. In many ways these are the most revealing images in the book and tell the story of young people seizing control to shape their futures.
 
Sheila says, “Punk permeated everything in fashion, music and lifestyle and its influence was everywhere you looked. My job as a photographer was to capture what was happening and let the pictures tell the story.”
 
After the punk scene had gone mainstream Sheila continued to capture images in music and fashion for over a decade and her work appeared in magazines including Time, Elle, Rolling Stone, The Sunday Times and The Face.
 
Sheila is currently working on a number of fine art projects and exhibits internationally, with a new exhibition planned to open at Liverpool John Moores University this summer.