Yan Morvan
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Cafe Royal
London Subculture 1979-1981
Pages
36Format
PaperbackRelease date
2021Publisher
Cafe RoyalWeight
4 ozSize
14cm x 20cm
Looking back on his time in London, Morvan recalls that he received a mixed welcome from the kids he photographed. “The skinheads all tried to punch me in the face and steal my camera,” he says. “They didn’t like the French. But the punks were always friendly and funny. They liked being photographed.” His pictures – of the mosh pit at a Killing Joke gig or of rude boys chucking rocks at derelict factory buildings – capture a lot of the violent energy he encountered. “And always at the heart of it all,” he says, “was the incredible wild poetry of the bands and the music.”
