Kate Bush (in a garden full of daffodils and trees…)

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Bikini kill & The Julie Ruin

In her memoir Just Kids, Patti Smith details her intense relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe in which they struggle to become artists in New York City. They lived together at the Hotel Chelsea – home to numerous writers, musicians, actors and artists. Patti supported Robert by working in bookstores, he soon flourished as a photographer and encouraged her to pursue visual art. As a writer, Patti eventually turned her poems into songwriting. For the cover of her debut album, Horses (1975), Patti used a portrait Robert took. Once Robert came out as a gay man their intimate relationship ended but they remained friends until his death from HIV/AIDS in 1989.

Dirty Blonde; The Diaries of Courtney Love.

C. Moore Hardy, Leather Lesbians with a punk look at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, 1995

Fugazi, 1993.

NIRVANA

Patti Smith, 1978 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

Sky Ferreira photographed by Casper Sejersen for DAZED (2018)

Lou Reed, Los Angeles, 1966 by Lisa Law