Peter Ashworth

Peter Ashworth
Self-portrait 2011
Self-portrait 2011
Background information
Birth namePeter Ashworth
Born1953 (age 70–71)
GenresPhotography
Occupation(s)Photographer
Musician
Years active1979–present
WebsiteOfficial website

Peter Ashworth (born 1953[1]) is an English photographer. Ashworth initially specialized in music photography, between 1979 and 2000. In the 1980s, he worked with many UK artists including The Smiths,[2] Depeche Mode,[3] Eurythmics,[4] Soft Cell,[5] Jimmy Page[6][7] and The Associates.

He has also performed as a musician with various bands, including Marc and the Mambas (with Marc Almond), The Gadgets, and The The. In 1980, Ashworth—using his Triash pseudonym—was briefly a member of the band The The with Matt Johnson.[8] In 1982–1983, he played drums as a member of Marc and the Mambas.

He now works predominantly in fashion and style/culture photography,[9][10] working with fashion designers such as Stephen Jones, Basso & Brooke and Atsuko Kudo. He is known in part for his photography of fetish subjects,[11][12] for creating sets and shooting on location using lighting techniques that explore the textures and cut of his subjects.[citation needed]

Ashworth's work is featured in The National Portrait Gallery permanent collection archive, consisting of twelve images: Adam and the Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier; Annie Lennox - Eurythmics: Touch & Face to Face portrait; Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome; Soft Cell - Bedsitter & Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret; Associates - Sulk; Erasure - phone-booth; David Sylvian - portrait; Julian Cope - Saint Julian (album); Visage - debut sleeve; Steve Strange - portrait.[13]

  1. ^ Dylan Jones. Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics.
  2. ^ Stone, Rolling (6 September 2016). "10 Bands We'd Most Like to See Reunite".
  3. ^ "A Question of Lust - Depeche Mode | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  4. ^ Sutherland, Bryony; Lucy Ellis (2002). Annie Lennox: The Biography. Omnibus Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-7119-9192-7.
  5. ^ Almond, Marc (2000). Tainted Life (Illustrated, revised ed.). Pan Books. ISBN 9780330372015.
  6. ^ Page, Jimmy (2014). Jimmy Page (Illustrated ed.). Genesis Publications. ISBN 9781905662326.
  7. ^ "Outrider - Jimmy Page | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  8. ^ Larkin, Colin (1995). The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music. Vol. 3 (2nd revised ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2190. ISBN 354063293X.
  9. ^ Davies, Hywel (2009). British Fashion Designers (Illustrated ed.). Berlin: Laurence King Publishing. p. 208. ISBN 9781856696333.
  10. ^ Steele, Valerie (2013). A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk (Illustrated ed.). Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300196702.
  11. ^ "Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Ashworth Rises from the Ashes".
  12. ^ Steele, Valerie (1997). Fetish: fashion, sex and power (Illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195115796.
  13. ^ "Peter Ashworth - National Portrait Gallery". Npg.org.uk.