40 years of Punk​/​New Wave by Adrian Boot

The exhibition brought together Boot's extraordinary photographic career spanning four decades, placing viewers face to face with the raw energy of punk's founding figures — the Clash, the Ramones, Blondie, and beyond. Shot in dingy venues, cramped backstages, and on chaotic streets, the images captured punk not as nostalgia but as a living attitude: confrontational, DIY, and defiantly anti-establishment. What made the show particularly compelling was Boot's rare insider access. As one of the definitive photographers of the punk and post-punk eras, he documented the scene from the inside rather than as an outside observer, lending his work an intimacy that press photography rarely achieves. Proud Galleries, long associated with rock and counter-culture photography, provided the perfect home for the retrospective — a space where the grit of the original prints could breathe.