Previously unseen photos from Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ promotional shoot unveiled

Kirk Weddle - the photographer who took the image for Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album cover - has shared previously unseen images from the promotional shoot in 1991.

Weddle captured nearly 200 images of Nirvana at the poolside, and until recently, were “stacked in a closet, unorganised,” before the photographer listed them for sale through Austin’s Modern Rocks Gallery. A few of the images also featured in Brett Morgen’s recent Kurt Cobain documentary ‘Montage of Heck’.

Speaking about the images, Weddle says that the shoot took place in Los Angeles on 28th October 1991, with Kurt Cobain remarking, “Fuck! I Have to get in the pool?” under Weddle’s instruction. Not a keen swimmer or “a water guy at all,” Cobain, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic met up with Weddle at 10:00am that morning having just finished a recent tour.

Head to the Modern Rocks Gallery website to view the images.