I Won't Give Up (Limited Editon)

This Collector’s Edition includes the book I Won’t Give Up and this print of Pete Doherty signed, numbered and titled in black ink on the verso by Fabio Paleari: Pete, Inkjet print, 24.1 x 30.5 cm. The photograph has been printed in a limited edition of 400 copies and is housed in an original sliding wooden box.

A brainchild of the friendship between Pete Doherty and photographer Fabio Paleari, I Won’t Give Up is a portrait, intentionally disordered and formless, of British band Babyshambles’ front man. In fact between 2004 and 2006 Paleari followed Doherty on gigs, immortalising him backstage, at parties and above all at those moments that hit big in the tabloids…

Thin, womanish, unkempt, sexy, Doherty comes across as a worthy heir to the tradition of rockers maudits (from Johnny Rotten to Jim Morrison), always in the company of a variously assorted community living for “sex, drugs and rock’n’roll” and side by side with the on-and-off presence of top model Kate Moss. This singular diary of images, which started out with the singer and photographer meeting at Paul Ro’s crack house (a point of reference on the British underground scene in recent years), comes to a close just a few months after the scandal-video showing Kate Moss taking drugs.