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East End Wasteland, London
Roger remembers: I didn’t scan or consider this photo until years after taking it. It didn’t work as a press photo, so it was ignored. Even in the early 2000’s east London was a little edgy in places with burnt out stolen cars and derelict buildings. In many ways it hadn’t really changed from when I moved back to London in the early late 80’s. I love the feeling of foreboding in this pic. I went back here a few years later with Peter to shoot some solo pics. We got swarmed on by police vans who thought we were doing a drug deal. Oh, the irony.A signed limited edition photograph available in a choice of size options. Click on the size options below to see available sizes and prices. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph. If you would like a quote for framing please just ask. Framing adds 2-3 weeks. -
The Libertines walking in Aberdeen
Roger recalls: This is an alternative frame from the iconic shot of the boys walking in Aberdeen. I included it because it’s another example, admittedly through the retrospective spectacles, of Peter being (literally) out of step with the others. In these situations, the ideal is to get that feeling of unity, a gang. Very often Peter would drift off.A signed limited edition photograph available in a choice of size options. Click on the size options below to see available sizes and prices. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph. If you would like a quote for framing please just ask. Framing adds 2-3 weeks. -
Carl and Peter on the tour bus between Birmingham and Manchester
Roger Sargent remembers: Fun, my overarching memory of working with The Libertines, despite all the pain and disappointments will always be one of fun. Four of the warmest, gentle, creative, intelligent and funniest people I’ve had the pleasure of pointing a camera towards.A signed limited edition photograph available in a choice of size options. Click on the size options below to see available sizes and prices. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph. If you would like a quote for framing please just ask. Framing adds 2-3 weeks. -
On a sofa, Albion Rooms, London
Roger Sargent explains: This was a little set up, but the more posed frames look a little awkward. I like to leave people to see what happens though sometimes, unprompted.A signed limited edition photograph available in a choice of size options. Click on the size options below to see available sizes and prices. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph. If you would like a quote for framing please just ask. Framing adds 2-3 weeks. -
Second shoot, London
Roger Sargent reflects: If there’s a better looking, cooler band out there then I’ve not seen them.A signed limited edition photograph available in a choice of size options. Click on the size options below to see available sizes and prices. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph. If you would like a quote for framing please just ask. Framing adds 2-3 weeks. -
Reformed, London
Roger Sargent recalls: I’d never been particularly nervous or intimidated around a shoot with The Libertines before, but some time had passed since I’d seen Peter. I’d been shooting Carls band Dirty Pretty Things a lot and only seen Peter on a handful of occasions in six years. There was a ‘them’ or at least ‘him’ and ‘us’ feeling. At the time I was more concerned about my own feelings – Peter had become a kind of infamous tabloid figure and we read about him more than spent time with him. I could feel his nervousness and it made me feel more nervous. I feel stupid having thought this at the time, but it crossed my mind that the things we’d read might come true – he might smash things up or start a fight. Ludicrous how shitty tabloid spin can skew things.A signed limited edition photograph available in a choice of size options. Click on the size options below to see available sizes and prices. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph. If you would like a quote for framing please just ask. Framing adds 2-3 weeks. -
Recording their second album, The Libertines, Metropolis Studios, West London, Spring 2004
Roger Sargent recalls: Recording the second LP happened in fits and starts as I remember. Without Mick Jones things would have probably gone a lot worse. This was a band in the middle of bearing their collective souls in the most candid and brutal way possible.A signed limited edition photograph available in a choice of size options. Click on the size options below to see available sizes and prices. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph. If you would like a quote for framing please just ask. Framing adds 2-3 weeks. -
Rehearsing for the Reading Festival, Kings Cross, London
Roger Sargent reflects: It was such a genuinely joyful experience being at the first rehearsals when the band reformed. They’d been somewhat shoehorned together for the payday but who gives a fuck, hearing the first few bars of ‘Horror Show’ again was godlike.A signed limited edition photograph available in a choice of size options. Click on the size options below to see available sizes and prices. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph. If you would like a quote for framing please just ask. Framing adds 2-3 weeks. -
Peter’s bedroom, London
Roger Sargent remembers: When we arrived at Carl and Peter’s Bethnal Green flat at the assigned time, none of the band were there. Luckily Tony Linkin (the band's publicist) had a spare key. They introduced me to a new experience – a band being late to meet me in their own home! The lounge was a sight to behold. You literally could not see the floor for “knees up” detritus. The bath was full of washing up from the kitchen and the toilet didn’t flush. Turns out the water had been turned off and they’d resorted to filling it with bottled mineral water in order to expunge it’s contents.A signed limited edition photograph available in a choice of size options. Click on the size options below to see available sizes and prices. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph. If you would like a quote for framing please just ask. Framing adds 2-3 weeks. -
Peter with mirrored guitar, Albion Rooms, London
Roger Sargent explains: I always felt a little odd taking pictures of people ‘partaking’. It’s never something I’d do surreptitiously but even when asked by the protagonist it’s uncomfortable. I think mostly it comes from the (in my mind) implied betrayal of trust—that weeks later one would run to the tabloids—not that I ever have. I’ve included this only because I think it’s a great photo. A little bit naughty but also cautionary.A signed limited edition photograph available in a choice of size options. Click on the size options below to see available sizes and prices. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph. If you would like a quote for framing please just ask. Framing adds 2-3 weeks. -
Peter live, London
Roger Sargent explains: Their live shows were often so much about chaos and camaraderie, I wanted to include a favourite photo with less of the usual madness.A signed limited edition photograph available in a choice of size options. Click on the size options below to see available sizes and prices. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph. If you would like a quote for framing please just ask. Framing adds 2-3 weeks.
