Bikers, rappers and rude boys: the photographer who got to the heart of subculture
▻https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/01/janette-beckman-photographer-interview-hip-hop-fight-clubs-dior-catwalk
It was the tension between Janette Beckman’s shyness and her curiosity about people that helped spark a career photographing subcultures. “I realised that having a camera gave you licence to go up to strangers and say, ‘Hi, I’d like to take a picture of you,’” she says. This epiphany jump-started a 45-year adventure in street photography, documenting the punk and two-tone youths of 70s Britain, the birth of hip-hop in New York, Latino gang members in Los Angeles, bikers in Harlem, rodeos, rockabilly conventions and demonstrations from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter.
LOWER EAST SIDE 1988
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