In the early ‘80s Marla Watson was a journalism major in college, when she met a punk boy on the school paper and the two decided to start a fanzine. Marla owned a camera, so she became the photographer. The pair managed to put out one issue of the Skank Magazine before breaking up, but Marla kept on going to shows and taking pictures. Marla’s photos have been used on album’s by Minor Threat and Channel 3 but most of Marla’s work remained unseen until My Punk Rock Life: The Photography Of Marla Watson was published via Earth Island Books. With over 300 high quality and rarely seen images from the infancy of the hardcore punk scene featuring seminal acts such as Black Flag, Minor Threat, The Dead Kennedys, The Misfits, The Damned, Circle Jerks, Bad Religion, The Vandals, Channel 3, Th...
