“My Punk Rock Life: The Photography Of Marla Watson” Published

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, The Adicts, Stiff Little Fingers, Shattered Faith, Fear, White Flag, Youth Brigade, Social Distortion, The Angry Samoans, Battalion of Saints, Redd Kross, 7 Seconds, Suicidal Tendencies, Descendents, Bad Brains, Discharge, UK Subs, The Clash, The Varukers, The English Dogs, TSOL, The Lewd, Subhumans, Red Scare, Ill Repute, The Pandoras, The Blades, The Bangs, The Toy Dolls, Sin 34, GBH, The Dickies and DOA.

Marla Watson left Los Angeles in 1991 and moved sight unseen to Portland, Oregon where she met her deadhead husband Walt and settled down, raising their daughter Hailey. They are now empty nesters with two spoiled German Shepard’s named Iggy Pup and Strummer Jo. The photos appearing in My Punk Rock Life: The Photography Of Marla Watson have sat in a box, untouched for forty years. Now Marla is sharing her photography with the world in her first book and at The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas.