Sauce Gallery and Punch present:
Headz!: The Photographic Art of Peter Williams – A Reflection on the Straight No Chaser Years
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The Swifty Remixes

Peter Williams is globally renowned for the photographic iconic images he produced for the late lamented Straight No Chaser magazine alongside Far Out Records and B&W Music. 

Back in 1988, after studying photography at the Royal College of Art, Williams met up with the Chaser crew. They had just launched a designer fanzine dedicated to what they called the Freedom Principle. A long-standing working relationship developed between the photographer and Paul Bradshaw, Straight No Chasers driving force and editor.

The result of that relationship is Headz! – a powerful exhibition of portraiture that features nu-generation playas like DJ Shadow, Reprazent, Sizzla, Soweto Kinch, Courtney Pine and Cassandra Wilson alongside legends like Don Cherry, McCoy Tyner, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Randy Weston, Steve Reid, Nina Simone and Miles Davis – horn at the ready, floating in the air like an eerie apparition.  

Following on from the hugely successful Swifty Pop Shop which opened at the Sauce gallery at the end of 2009,  have invited Swifty to contribute to Headz!  As the former creative director of Straight No Chaser, Swifty has long worked with Peter Williams imagery.

Scan through the back issues of the magazine and youll be blown away by the radical combinations of typografix and photography. Swifty has taken these classic spreads one step further and included in Headz are a selection of Peter Williams classics that have been specially remixed for the occasion.

Headz! is curated by The Sauce Gallery, Punch and former Straight No Chaser publisher Paul Bradshaw.

Coming to the Sauce Gallery, Gibb St, Custard Factory 10-6pm Mon-Sat from 16 July 2010. Call Punch on 0121 224 7444 for more information.

The exhibition is launching with a fantastic performance by Digby Fairweather, playing live over the Custard Factory Lake, from 1pm on Friday 16 July.

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