Responsive / ID Magazine / Research

“I didn’t get run over, but you do need to have your wits about you. In a way, it’s a noble end for the cars. What better way to go than being driven headlong into another car?” DEAN CHALKLEY

“Teddy Boys were the first proper subculture. I met one guy who was nearly 80 and still had a quiff. He said, ‘I was a Teddy Boy at 13 and I’ll be a Teddy Boy until I die.’ JAY BROOKS

'I’ve always had a fascination with people who live off the straight and narrow. I suppose it’s a reflection of me, really. I’m this middle-class country boy who’s had a supposedly normal life, so I’m fascinated by people who choose to live a different way. I thought of Hells Angels as the hardest club to get into. How did I infiltrate it? You’d have to ask them. I assume a bit of luck.' ANDREW SHAYLOR.

“I’ve lived with a camera around my neck since the late Sixties. When I was standing on the Tube every day, it became part of my life that I photographed. Back then, it was a weird, grubby place, and people used to pee on the platforms.' 

BOB MAZZER

"Anita Corbin documents the “informal uniforms” of young women'

'Anita Corbin documents the “informal uniforms” of young women'

'Anita Corbin documents the “informal uniforms” of young women'

'Gareth McConnell, is one of those books which seems to boil history down and to present it for inspection. Gareth describes it as a “frenzied reworking” of his accumulated archive; it brings together over ten years worth of photographs of rave culture, of civil gatherings and of riots, all of which is placed side-by-side with found imagery from the internet, shots from historical moments and personal and political perspectives. '

A more abstract approach to capturing a subculture. These images are more visually interesting however are let down by the lack of visual signifiers that relate to a certain subculture; the image above is ubiquitous, it could be of any subculture.