Kevin Cummins

The career of celebrated photographer Kevin Cummins began on 29th June 1973 when, as a nineteen-year-old photography student, he photographed David Bowie. That image is now in the renowned photography collection of the V&A Museum and marked the beginning of Kevin Cummins’ four-decade-long visual chronicle of David Bowie’s remarkable career. David Bowie: Mixing Memory & Desire includes […]

The definitive collection of the Joy Division photographs of Kevin Cummins, including interviews with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris. The iconic images captured by Cummins – from snowy bridges and dark rehearsal rooms to electrifying live performances – helped to define Joy Division and cement their place in music history. Originally published in […]

“No one has captured the look of alternative UK music over the past half a century more tellingly than Kevin Cummins.” – Simon Armitage “Kevin Cummins is a true master in being able to capture the essence of music, the soul of the band. Whatever he does however he does it is a mystery to […]

This special edition box set features 28 classic images and rarer glimpses of David Bowie, reproduced as a collection of postcards and presented in hand finished box – made in Manchester. A look at one of the most iconic musicians of all time. Kevin Cummins first photographed Bowie as Ziggy Stardust on his Aladdin sane  tour of 1972-1973 and went on to […]

A collection 29 postcard featuring highlights from Kevin Cummins’ extensive work with legendary and influential Manchester band New Order. Having been the most trusted photographer of Joy Division in the 1970s, Kevin Cummins was uniquely placed to document the rise and fall of New Order, and here Kevin presents some of his favourite images of the […]

Kevin Cummins’ career as a photographer began just as Punk emerged in Manchester. He’d been inspired by influential bands like Iggy and the Stooges along with a nucleus of people who nearly all went on to form bands – and he was perfectly placed to document what was to become one of the most significant movements […]

Christmas Day 1977, a day to be spent with family and loved ones, unless of course you’d decided to spend it with The Sex Pistols. The punk band, at the centre of a tabloid frenzy and banned from just about every venue in the country, had booked themselves into a small club in Huddersfield to […]