Eric Watson's photographs of the Pet Shop Boys defined the notion of image-making as a vital part of the way the post-punk generation took control of its own marketing
Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant, photographed for the Pet Shop Boys single Suburbia, 1986Photograph: Eric WatsonThe cover image for the Pet Shop Boys single It's a Sin, 1987. Most of the shoot took place among the formal architecture of Christ Church in Spitalfields, London – but this shot was taken in the decaying, unused sacristyPhotograph: Eric WatsonPet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe in June 1999.Photograph: Eric WatsonPet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe outside the St Pancras Hotel in 1999, around the time their album Nightlife was releasedPhotograph: Eric WatsonThe Pet Shop Boys in October 2003, around the time of their greatest hits album Pop Art.Photograph: Eric WatsonA self-portrait by Eric Watson, photographer, 1955-2012Photograph: Eric Watson