Leica Store Gallery
Leica Gallery DC presents “Suspect Device”, 20 select prints from Washington, DC, photographer Chris Suspect’s book of the same name published by Empty Stretch. The high-contrast black and white images from Washington, DC’s current day punk scene telegraph the hard-to-capture impact and volatile energy that has kept it going for more than 35 years.
The exhibit will run from March 6 through Spring 2015.
Thirty years ago, Chris Suspect went to his first punk show to see Naked Raygun, TSOL, Government Issue, MIA and the Cereal Killers at WUST Hall (now the new 9:30 Club location on 9th and V Sts.). Back then, he didn’t have a camera to photograph the bands, punks and skinheads at the shows, but remembered the energy, the fun and the danger that Eric Oberg, Leica Store DC General Manager, observes, “the recent releases of various video documentaries and books about the early years of DC punk have been great from a nostalgic perspective, but what is really exciting about Suspect’s work is that he proves the scene is just as vibrant today as it was in the 1980’s.”
RSVP for the opening and reserve your copy of the catalog, e-mail exhibition@leica-store-dc.com.
The catalog, Suspect Device is a 68-page, 8½ x 11 book containing more than 50 photographs with a foreword by Alec MacKaye. Published by Empty Stretch and limited to 250 copies, the catalog will be available at the Leica Store DC at the opening reception on Friday, March 6, and for the duration of the exhibit.