Posts tagged youth culture
Eye Level Closing Event

My contribution to Turf Project's Eye Level programme included a Drumz of the South slideshow and audio description, voiced by Breezy Lee and produced by Jay Strange. I also designed a wall map of connections, inspired by the maps I drew during my peak years documenting the early dubstep scene and its community. Additionally, I led a counter-culture mapping workshop for MOSS, Turf's group of learning disabled artists, and a workshop for Croydon’s Young Archivists.

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DRUMZ OF THE SOUTH at TURF PROJECTS: EYE LEVEL Exhibition

Friendships are formed on the dance floor. In smoky rooms with sticky floors, in pub toilets with stickers covering the stall doors, we carve out our own sense of belonging. We operate new frequencies, climb up lampposts and flyer city streets to shout that we are here and we will find each other.

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Youth Club Archive Symposium

Join me and Lisa Der Weduwe of Youth Club Archive on Insta Live next Tuesday where we’ll be discussing my music photography and what the world and it’s technologies looked like back in the early 00’s when I was documenting DnB, Dubstep and Grime.

@drumzofthesouth 6-7pm June 1st

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A Night at Steam Down in Photos

A night with Steam Down

Thanks again to the Steam Down crew for giving me their blessing to document the night which was not only the release of their brilliant single Free My Skin, but also the first time keys player Dominic performed his own music under the name Doom Cannon.

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“Youth of Today” - The Teds

I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but I LOVE anything to do with sub cultures and youth culture and contemporary music history. Which is why when footage like this comes my way - about Teddy Boys, I get very excited.

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