Henry Rollins, best known as the front man of punk band, Black Flag, has now released his new photo book, Occupants. ‘His seething outrage at the banality of many of his fellow Americans manifests in a tireless global trek in which he inhales as much diverse culture as possible in search of first-hand experience to relay back to […]
Henry Rollins ‘Occupants’
Henry Rollins, best known as the front man of punk band, Black Flag, has now released his new photo book, Occupants.
‘His seething outrage at the banality of many of his fellow Americans manifests in a tireless global trek in which he inhales as much diverse culture as possible in search of first-hand experience to relay back to his spoken-word audiences.’ Occupants is a visual story of these trips.
“I’m curious. I’m curious and I’m angry, and my curiosity feeds my anger and my anger feeds my curiosity. I think that in my home country, my fellow Americans do not travel as much as they should,” says Rollins as he explains his motivation for his relentless travelling. “I’m afraid to look at what percentage of Americans have a passport – a lot of Americans are uninformed and misinformed but rarely are they informed.”
“I want to know therefore I go,” is Rollins’ mantra. “The facts become unspinable. I don’t think they’re recovering from a 22-year war in the Sudan, I know because I went and saw the bullets on the ground. It’s not an editorial when I’m on stage, it’s reportage. I can’t be wrong about it – I have photographic proof. I go to these places to verify. What else can I do? Believe the news? The same news that lied me into the Iraq war? I don’t want to get fooled again so I cross reference everything.”
Text by Laura Havlin and images from AnOther
