Ewen Spencer took this picture at a Sunday club night called Twice As Nice at The End in London’s West Central Street in 1999.
Spencer’s picture is included in a new Hayward Gallery touring exhibition After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989-2024.
He was a soul boy at heart, and saw in garage culture similar attractions: “It was working-class kids dressing up for a big night out,” he recalls, “quite different from acid house, for example.”.
Spencer was influenced by north-east based photographers such as Chris Killip and Graham Smith; he wanted to make authentic pictures that captured “some of the moves and female-heavy love and jubilation of those nights”, he says.
Photographer Ewen Spencer captures the energy of a garage music night for working-class kids.
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