Eddie Duggan

Eddie Duggan is a British photographer, film-maker, screenwriter, author and academic games historian.

Eddie Duggan's photographs of bands on the burgeoning music scene in 1970s London have been published in both the underground and the mainstream music press. His photographs have been published in fanzines including Sniffin' Glue and Livewire as well as in titles including New Musical Express, Sounds and Record Mirror. Duggan's photographs have also appeared in books, including Paul Marko (2007) The Roxy, London WC2: A Punk History, and Teal Triggs (2010) Fanzines. Some of Duggan's recollections of early punk gigs in London are included in "a really great interview with Eddie Duggan" and Duggan is also discussed by Deborah Harry and Chris Stein in Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie.

An exhibition, entitled A la recherche du punk perdu showed Duggan's photography together with that of Blondie-founder Chris Stein at the University of Suffolk. The exhibition also included fanzines, flyers, badges and books from the collection of Professor Teal Triggs. Chris Stein includes a photograph of Duggan in Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie, in which Stein and Deborah Harry recall their first meeting him during a press event in London at which he represented Sniffin' Glue. Duggan subsequently toured with Blondie and was pressed into service as a giant ant, performing nightly on stage with Deborah Harry during the song Attack of the Giant Ants. Duggan is also pictured on the cover of the New Wave compilation album (Vertigo, 1978). He appears in the iconic and much-reproduced Chris Moorhouse photograph of the Clash gig at London's Rainbow Theatre, 9 May 1977, in which the audience passes broken seats on to the stage. Duggan discusses the photograph and the gig in an article in The Guardian.

As a film maker, Duggan's directorial debut is a computer-animated 14-minute short, a machinima piece entitled "Looking for the Truth" which was screened at the Ma-Machinima International Film Festival in Amsterdam (2011). Duggan's machinima piece has also been shown at an Exploding cinema event in London (2012) and was also featured in the highlights reel of the 2010 MachinimaExpo held in Second Life.

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