Last Sunday was my third photoshoot in my hometown of Birmingham. The shoot was organised by Wezism who arranged two previous shoots, This is Birmingham '82 and Peaky Blinders. Once again collection of models and photographers descended upon urban decay of Digbeth, Birmingham which was used as the environment to capture a pictures of a powerful misunderstood culture of the late 70's and early 80's. As always it was a total scream.
"Today, the scene has spread across the entire globe and as well as the spread of the extreme right-wing element, there are also skins of every colour and creed imaginable. Skinhead isn't specifically about white boys and it never was - it's more than that and anyone who thinks this isn't the case doesn't know enough about the history and the soul of skinhead. As one West Indian told me -
'The skins when we were at school (late 70s/early eighties) weren't just white kids, there were black skins as well but it wasn't about race - they kicked anybody who wasn't a skinhead.'" No Whites; No Rudies; No Blacks; No Skins
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