![]() ![]() I lost my virginity to him in the back of my mums Honda. “I had a boyfriend who was a rockabilly with a stiff hair sprayed quiff. “Live music is so expensive now, but when I was young, you literally never ate out except on holiday. My daughter goes to more restaurants, pop-ups and street stalls than gigs. For the last decade, food has been the new ‘rock n roll’. “Back then, rock n rock was the rock n roll. Every pub had a live band and it was very cheap to get in. “As a teenager, I loved music I went to a gig virtually every night. At school assembly, I used to look at the girls on stage and imagine how I would style and shoot them. My parents bought me an Instamatic camera and I was obsessed with shooting pictures. “I’ve been a photographer since I was 9 years old. Can you tell us how you got involved in photography in the first place, and in rock’n’roll photography in particular? Let’s hop on a Delorean and go back to the late 70s. Kerstin is launching a brand new site showcasing her career as a photographer, so we recommed you check out her work at .uk Morrissey, 1984. We had the pleasure of talking to Kerstin about her career in photography, the Madness hit song dedicated to her, and her gastronomical entrepreneurship. Over the years she has also organized anarchist cafés, indie music festivals and other happenings all revolving around gastronomy.Īs MsMarmitelover, she’s published a handful of cooking and recipe books, has written guest posts for The Guardian, and has been featured heavily in the British press for her foodie exploits. She’s been one of the very first to adopt the Airbnb model into the scene, hosting a series of thematic ‘supper clubs’ at her home that kickstarted a trend that still goes on today. Yes, she also happens to be a professional cook who shook up the food industry with the introduction of the underground restaurant movement into the UK in 2009. In the new millennium, Kerstin became “MsMarmitelover”, one of the biggest influencers in the food and drink world. Although her impact in the music industry is immense, over the last decade she has become an Internet celebrity for very different reasons. © Kerstin Rodgersīut Rodgers’ story is as weird, fascinating and unique as they come. She’s exhibited in galleries in Paris and London, and was included in the Getty Image Library exhibition, ‘Beat Positive’. She got her first photos published in New Musical Express as a teenager, and since then her work has been printed on the pages of almost every prestigious musical and news outlet under the sun. She’s one of the many unsung lens warriors who one beer-stained night at a time, helped define the iconography of rock in the late 70s and early 80s. That classic image of a young and coy Morrisey wearing an oversized knit sweater, those scenes of The Cramps ferociously blasting on stage as if their lives depended on it, or Madness doing their trademark “nutty train” … that’s all Kerstin. If you like music, it’s very likely that you’ve seen the work of Kerstin Rodgers, one of the prime documentarians of the punk scene in London and one of the most influential rock’n’roll photographers of all time. ![]()
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