78-87 London Youth

Photographs taken in the streets, clubs, basements and bars of London between 1978 and 1987, celebrating the many mutations in London's youth culture from the height of punk to the birth of Acid House.

These photographs, made over a ten-year span, capture punk's evolution into goth, the skinhead revival and the New Romantic scene, and the eventual emergence of Acid House and the new psychedelia. Among those portrayed are Boy George, Andrew Logan, Leigh Bowery and his boyfriend Trojan, Michael Alig, John Galliano, Hamish Bowles, Cerith Wyn Evans, Steve Strange and Martin Kemp and Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet. A testament to the creative spirit of youth with emphasis on sartorial DIY panache.