Chris Stein

This collection presents the photographic work of Chris Stein, co-founder of Blondie and a central figure of the New York punk and new wave scene.

Beyond his role as a musician, Stein documented the cultural environment that surrounded him during the late 1970s and early 1980s, capturing intimate moments of artists, performers, and everyday life within a scene that would come to define downtown New York.

Presented as fine art photographs, the works in this collection function as firsthand documents of a creative community, offering a rare insider’s perspective shaped by proximity, trust, and lived experience.