Rockarchive 10th Anniversary celebrations!

A decade ago and after 30 years as a rock photographer, Jill Furmanovsky was looking through her vast archive of images.  Images of the great and the good of the music industry.  Images that captured those decisive moments in the history of rock and roll.  Images as visceral as the punk rock days they reflected and she felt that it was such a shame that so little of her work could be seen or owned by the people who would appreciate it most; The Fans.
And so Rockarchive was born from Jill's vision to make her work and that of her esteemed colleagues more accessible to the public.  It coincided with the birth of that other great engine of public access : The internet.

Jill began a website called rockarchive.com at the end of 1998. She put up 30 of her classic images from her 30 years as a rock photographer and decided to print them in an edition of 30 darkroom prints. Edition 30/30/30 was born and become the founding edition for Rockarchive.

A decade on and Rockarchive specialises in publishing rare, iconic, unseen and unpublished moments from Rock and Roll history as limited edition, hand signed, fine art prints from a roster of the world's greatest music photographers. Currently publishing the work of more than 50 photographers which includes 500 images, the collective continues to grow.

The stable includes Mick Rock (David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop), Bob Gruen (Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones), Kate Simon (Debbie Harry, Madonna), David Corio (U2, Bob Marley, Sex Pistols), Barrie Wentzell (Marc Bolan, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Elton John), Sheila Rock (The Clash, Blondie, Siouxsie Sioux), Storm Thorgerson (Pink Floyd, Muse, Mars Volta),  Gered Mankowitz (Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix), Kevin Cummins (Joy Division, Smiths, Stone Roses), Ray Stevenson (Sex Pistols, punk, Bowie, Hendrix), Kevin Westenberg (U2, Coldplay, PJ Harvey) and of course Jill Furmanovsky herself (The Police, PInk Floyd, The Pretenders, Oasis, Razorlight) each contribute to Rockarchive's roster of iconic captured images.

And so to 2008.  The Rockarchive 10th Anniversary will manifest itself as a world tour.  The exhibition kicks off in Dubai this September.  On the mark of the decade, in mid October ‘08, the show pulls into Central London for a four week stint and a series of events across 3 London  exhibition sites.  Throughout 09 the tour takes in Brighton, Sydney, Tokyo, Geneva, Prague and culminates in Autumn 09 in New York. There will also be an auction of prints, for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity, and this will take place to coincide with the London Show.