Ebet Roberts

Ebet Roberts moved from her native Memphis to New York City to paint but switched to photography in 1977 when she began began documenting the evolving CBGB scene. Since then, she has consistently documented musicians, capturing the essence of the artists she photographs while accumulating a vast archive and respect from her peers. Her photographs are reproduced in innumerable publications including Rolling Stone, MOJO, Spin, GQ, Playboy, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, People, USA Today...See more

Ebet Roberts moved from her native Memphis to New York City to paint but switched to photography in 1977 when she began began documenting the evolving CBGB scene. Since then, she has consistently documented musicians, capturing the essence of the artists she photographs while accumulating a vast archive and respect from her peers. Her photographs are reproduced in innumerable publications including Rolling Stone, MOJO, Spin, GQ, Playboy, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, People, USA Today and the Village Voice . They are also featured prominently in Blank Generation Revisited , This Ain't No Disco: The Story of CBGB , Frozen Fire: The Story of the Cars , CBGB'S: 30 Years of Photographs and The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock. Her photographs have been widely exhibited and are in the permanent collection of the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, Seattle's Experience Music Project, the Grammy Museum and the Hard Rock Cafe. See less