Virginia Turbett is a music and social photographer who is best known for her photographs of bands, fans, and street culture between 1977 and 1987.

In 1977, Virginia was asked by a good friend to photograph The Sex Pistols recording “Pretty Vacant” for Slash Magazine. “I had to go to a camera shop on Tottenham Court Rd to get them to change the film for me,”

A year and many punk gigs later, a chance meeting with a Sounds journalist during the Right to Work March led to a collaboration that lasted for a few years, during which she photographed Punk, Rock, Pop, Heavy Metal, Mods, New Romantics, Skinheads, Two-Tone, Ska, Reggae, and the fans, style, and fashion of the time.