British photographer Steve Gullick has been shooting musicians for years. This January, he will unveil photos of ’90s icons such as Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, and Radiohead that have never before been shown formally. This will be Mr. Gullick’s first exhibit in America.

Steve Gullick is the one and only punk savant photographer left working in the music business. The London based family man and principled reprobate started taking band shots for a friend’s fanzine in the early 90s and was swiftly spotted and recruited by the then weekly music paper Sounds. His first collection of photographs, ‘Pop Book Number One’, came out in 95, and Gullick survived the Britpop years continuing to turn the raw stuff of blokes in bands into gripping, eye fooling images.

The Prodigy liked him so much he became their ‘official’ photographer. He liked one features editor so little that he resigned to him twice, as he moved back and forth between Melody Maker and the NME. By the end of the decade he had traveled the world, flitting stylishly and sometimes drunkenly from East London, through tango bars in Buenos Aires and up to the lava slopes of Mount Etna, while clicking off enough film to occupy his second book, the feisty showcase ‘Showtime’.

2002 saw Gullick create the seminal ‘Careless Talk Cost Lives’, an unashamedly underground publication conceived to run for twelve issues only, the image led magazine achieved it’s goal, in the process making cover stars of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s for the first time, as well as the the more established Nick Cave & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy ‘. In 2004, the ongoing Loose Lips Sink Ships’ project continued where CTCL had left off, this time pushing the visual aspect even further to the fore. Learn more about Steve Gullick and his photography at www.gullickphoto.com. If you happen to be on the other side of the pond, Tenebrous is simultaneously showing at The Tin Angel in Coventry. This exhibit include photographs of musical luminaries such as Kurt Cobain, Neil Young, Elliot Smith, Beck, Depeche Mode, The Foo Fighters, The Flaming Lips, Bjork and many more.

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 19, 2008, 6-9pm. Free and open to the public. The artist will be in attendance.

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Imagery from Steve Gullick: Tenebrous

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