Ralph Alfonso Photo Exibition April 10 & 11

Name: Ralph Alfonso Photo Exibition April 10 & 11
Start: 2026-04-10T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-11T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Emissions Record Shop

Schedule

Fri, 10 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Emissions Record Shop | Toronto, ON

CRASH'N'BURN
Ralph Alfonso Photo Exhibition
April 10 & 11
EMISSIONS RECORD SHOP
1114 Dundas St W. (DOWNSTAIRS)
Free admission
https://recordshopemissions.com/
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We are proud to announce the first ever Toronto photography exhibition by Ralph Alfonso, featuring his incredible documentation of the 1976-1979 punk explosion.
In addition to managing The Diodes and the Crash'n'Burn Club (Canada's first punk club, built by and run by the bands); Ralph was an important writer/photographer; covering the nascent scenes in New York, Toronto, and the UK for publications like Cheap Thrills (Toronto), New York Rocker and BOMP! (USA), Shades (Toronto) and others.
His trove of photographs includes Iggy, Patti Smith, Diodes, Ramones, Talking Heads, Dead Boys, Richard Hell, Stranglers, Mo-Dettes, The Curse, Teenage Head, Viletones, Barracudas, The Jam, Clash and many more.
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"Old school 76-77 punk is having a moment. It was 50 years ago that Punk magazine serendipitously gave this music a moniker and The Ramones spread the gospel worldwide, as hundreds of bands formed after every one of their concerts.
Anyway, all this to say, I was actually there and I took some photos and wrote about it, ran a club, managed a band, pissed off a major label, and then it was all over and I disappeared into the music industry labyrinth, all my negatives sitting in a box for eons, only to be rediscovered a few years ago and I'm still finding amazing images I didn't realize I had.
So, over the next few weeks, I am doing a DEEP dive into the negs and preparing for my first ever photo exhibition in Toronto at the cool Emissions Record Shop. See you there!"
Ralph Alfonso