Rodney Bowes
Designer and photographer.
Throughout the ‘70s, Bowes traversed the punk rock ephemera of both Toronto and New York City through his camera lens. He is best known for photography of The Ramones, Debbie Harry, Teenage Head, The B-Girls and The Viletones. He continued to design album art for the following three decades, garnering diverse clients like Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Ramones, Dead Boys, Blondie, Poison, Smashing Pumpkins, Garth Brooks, Godsmack, The Yardbirds and numerous others.
A Juno award win, multiple Juno nominations, countless platinum records and decades of decadence later, Bowes lives in Hollywood. Unwittingly surrounded by those consumed with the desire to “be someone,” Bowes has never seemed to strive in such a manner—he has simply and effortlessly driven the graphic manifest of bands that make up the stronghold of genre, whether punk, alternative rock or country. The graphic legacy of Rodney Bowes endures, despite genre, location or era.