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Underhill, Adriaan Basson, Yolandi Groenewald, Glynnis. "Prisons graft: Bosasa's empire of influence". The M&G Online . Retrieved 26 August 2019. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)

Lindeque, Mia, Kalenga, Aurelie. Agrizzi 'saddened' by Watson's death, Eyewitness News, 26 August 2019. Retrieved on 26 August 2019.

Over the years, Watson has insisted that he doesn’t feel sentimentally attached to his photographs, but if his work isn’t close to his heart then perhaps it’s simply too close for comfort. “I literally had no involvement in the editing [of the new book], because it’s so personal,” he clarifies. “And if someone pissed me off at 16, they’re not going in my book. I know it’s petty. So that’s why I don’t edit stuff. Because other people see things that I’ll never see.” Instead, his friend Rini Giannaki took on the hefty task of editing the book, which features images that had been carefully archived over the years by his father. Skins by Gavin Watson has been argued as being ‘the single most important record’ of 1970s skinhead culture in Britain, who have possibly been one of the most reviled yet misunderstood of the nation’s youth subcultures.”— Daily Mail While there is little doubt that North Americans, especially Canadians as part of the British Commonwealth, were exposed to skinhead subculture in the late 1960s and during the initial resurgence of this movement in 1978, it did not take hold as a youth cult in the United States until the arrival of punk. Xabanisa, Simnikiwe (21 January 2019). "Bosasa CEO Gavin and his brothers – who are the Watsons?". CityPress . Retrieved 26 August 2019.

Gavin Watson grew up in a typical working class overspill town that surround London. Stumbling into photography aged 14, becoming a skinhead at 15, he inadvertently documented the real social interracial music scene behind the media’s right-wing portrayal of a demonised youth culture. Undiscovered until the 1990s, his work became a blueprint for the work of filmmaker Shane Meadows, and significantly influences a generation of photographers working today. Toyota Corolla in which Gavin Watson died was not his ‘normal car’. The Citizen, 26 August 2019. Retrieved on 26 August 2019. Bosasa mystery deepens. Valence Watson: "My (now late) brother Gavin is innocent" ". BizNews.com. 26 August 2019 . Retrieved 26 August 2019. But alongside their shared musical references, the photographer does concede that the skins also “looked cool”. “It’s American 50s prep, really,” he explains. “Maybe not the boots, but the chinos, the tight trousers, the smart Levi’s and the Ben Sherman shirts. It’s very classic. It wasn’t made up by the skins, it came from Americana, really.”EJ: That’s amazing. I want to touch on music again briefly because it’s such an integral part of your work… The growth of the right-wing National Front and its recruitment of youth merely increased the amount of conflict present in the skinhead subculture. Punk shows and Ska shows were marred by skinhead violence. Even American newspapers covered the race riots that exploded in London in 1981.

What makes Gavin’s photos so special is that when you look at them, there’s clearly trust from the subject towards the photographer, so it feels like you’re in the photo rather than just observing.” – Shane Meadows (Director of award-winning film This Is England). Great British Bake Off confirm fan favourite has left the Channel 4 show ahead of the final as viewers call for them to be made a 'fifth host' Cilliers, Charles (15 September 2019). "Gavin Watson was already dead before his crash, private pathologist finds". citizen.co.za . Retrieved 16 September 2019.Golddigger, 15, pretended to fall in love with man, 35, she met online before stabbing him in the head when he didn't buy her the gifts she wanted

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