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That was to count for little after Bushell, desperate for a cover image after a photoshoot fell through, seized on a Christmas card which he says he believed showed a scene from the film The Wanderers. Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Jalen perform live knows that he is one of the most captivating performers on today's soul scene. The scores of black and white shots offer a fascinating glimpse into a skinhead community that was multi-cultural, tightly knit and above all else, fiercely proud of their look.

Gavin Watson - Skins - (Hardback) | Rough Trade Gavin Watson - Skins - (Hardback) | Rough Trade

As the punk rock era developed in the late 1970s, Ridgers devoted his time to the photographing London’s decadent club scene in its prime, capturing ravers, goths, punks, skinheads and fetishisits and various fashions that developed from these subcultures.The designer tweaks features on well-known apps as part of a daily side project, from previewing your Hinge date in AR to nepotism disclosures on LinkedIn. As a result, Watson captured two of the most iconic subcultures in 1980s Britain, which have become some of the defining documents of this period. While celebrities and sportsmen shave their heads for the red carpet, the underbelly of British youth culture has rediscovered the look via acclaimed films such as 2007's award-winning "This Is England". It was mods and young people in the 60s mixing with West Indians and digging the music and then skins were born.

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Growing up in High Wycombe, young photographer Gavin Watson documented this scene, capturing his mates larking about in their uniform of DM boots, Harrington jackets and sheepskin coats. The growth of the right-wing National Front and its recruitment of youth merely increased the amount of conflict present in the skinhead subculture. The rumours were Skinny Jim’s dead, Skinny Jim went off to America and started a charity, all sorts.Martens and steel toe work boots, braces, high rise jeans, and button-down collar shirts, usually slim fitting in check or plain.

Gavin Watson’s photographs of skinheads in early-’80s England Gavin Watson’s photographs of skinheads in early-’80s England

I was part of that very brief zeitgeist before it was kidnapped by the powers that be and weaponised.

That’s why, whenever there’s a strong working-class culture – regardless of religion – you’ll find people listening to ska music and you’ll find people dressed as skinheads.

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Rejecting the boot-licking deference and modesty that had defined previous generations of working-class Britains, skinhead culture was a rebel yell from the displaced youth dragged up on London’s post-war brutalist estates. The party would try to rebrand itself as respectable and peaceful - a strategy continued, with varying success, under the leadership of Nick Griffin. Can I just say, I am so grateful to be talking to anybody about anything I’ve done, as any artist would be. Teddy fashions were inspired by the Edwardian period during the early years of the 20th century, their dress included loose fitting, velvet-collared jackets and narrow trousers.Others found that, in an era when all gay men were widely assumed to be camp and effeminate, "you were less likely to get picked on if you looked like a queer-basher". His frame unhurried, he’s comfortable in addressing identity as something too complicated for titles—a string of quiet moments punctuated by stillness. He was a man of action, not ideology - a doer who left the thinking to others, and this may be what led a confused, angry young man to fascism in the first place. The ‘Wycombe Skins’ were part of the working-class skinhead subculture brought together by a love of ska music and fashion. I attracted that camera, the pictures I first got back were sharp, clear, and nothing like the shit I was exposed to.

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