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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A year-by-year walk through of the 40 best punk albums since the release of Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols in 1977. Punk rock was never meant to live as long as it has. It was meant ...

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 ...