Ian Dickson - Photographer

Documenting the Punk Explosion
Beginning his professional career as house photographer for the Tyneside Theatre Company in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Ian was invited to take pictures of Rod Stewart and The Faces who were to appear at the City Hall. This was in 1972 and the start of what was to become an illustrious rock photography career.

1973 found Ian in London, with a hefty portfolio of some of the greatest bands of the time. He soon found work with some of the best music papers and journals, and it was whilst working for the weekly music paper 'Sounds' that he first ran into the Sex Pistols. Ian had been sent down to the Notre Dame Assembly Hall by Sounds' features editor Vivienne Goldman to photograph the Pistols and their following.

"Although a bit old for Punk" (he was 31 at the time) "I readily identified with this new movement, probably the last genuinely rebellious statement of a rock music generation."