Josh Cheuse: staying rather than going with The Clash

Joe Strummer and Josh Cheuse Photo: Josh Cheuse

At 16, budding New York photographer Josh Cheuse used the payphone at his high school to call The Clash at the Electric Ladyland Studios in Manhattan to ask if he could photograph the band. 

It was the start of a friendship with Joe Strummer lasting the rest of the musician’s life. Cheuse went on to shoot NYC friends the Beastie Boys, ACDC and many more, but it was his enduring relationship with Strummer which has resulted in a book: Print the Myth: Joe Strummer Portraits 1981 - 2002.

These days Josh Cheuse is Communications Creative Director at Sony Music Entertainment in London. 
 

Press Shoot Portobello Road, London 1989 (PHOTO: Josh Cheuse)

Joe Strummer at the last Clash New York Concert, Brooklyn NY 2001 (PHOTO: Josh Cheuse)

Joe Strummer from the Clash at the Gramercy Park Hotel, New York 1987 (PHOTO: Josh Cheuse)

Print the Myth by Josh Cheuse (PHOTO: Rocket88)