Festival Gallery

Browse through three image galleries from over 30 years of the Reading Festival:

• The first group were taken by renowned photographer Stuart Clarke at the 2003 festival
• The second set are portraits of festival goers, also taken in 2003, by Sarah North
• The final selection are from the archive of the Reading Evening Post and cover the festival from 1971 to 2002

Click on the thumbnails to see a large version of an image. Click Next Gallery at the top or bottom of this page for the next page.

At the 2003 festival Sarah North decided to turn her camera lens away from the bands on the stage and onto their fans in the crowd. The captions are by Sarah. (All images and captions are copyright Sarah North 2004, www.theflyingstudio.com)