Gavin Watson #Photographe
Gavin Watson is an acclaimed documentary and portrait photographer. His natural eye for a moment in time and the stark, brutal honesty of the images he captured have made his collection of work one of the UK's finest documentary portfolios. He has done work for many global companies including Dr. Martens, and his photos have appeared countless music magazines, album covers, fashion bibles such as i-D and The Face, and numerous exhibitions.
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What started off as a small collection of photographs the 14-year-old Gavin Watson would take of his family and friends in Wycombe, middle England, in the 1970s and 80s, would grow into one of the most important and influential photographic youth culture books of the last 20 years. Skins, published in 1994 and hailed by The Times of London as "a modern classic," has shown its influence in such photographers as Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, and Ryan McGinley, as well as pretty much every kind of "youth" photography popular today. Last year, having persuaded him to begin working again after a long period of self-seclusion, VICE Books was bequeathed Watson’s lost archives, hundreds of photos reaching deep into the lives of the subjects of his first book. Each photograph reveals an understanding...
Raving ’89 is an exhibition by celebrated British photographer Gavin Watson. Documenting the subterranean rave and acid house culture that emerged across the UK in the late 80s, Raving ’89 is a captivating chronicle of a grassroots social and cultural movement.
20 years after the event, Raving ’89 details the acute tensions underpinning early acid house culture. Watson’s work celebrates the pure hedonistic energy of the so called “second summer of love”: drugs and music fuelling an ecstatic sense of cross cultural social emancipation. Viewed from a contemporary perspective, however, these images also remind us of what was waiting in the wings in the form of The Criminal Justice Act (1994). With its specific impositions against Rave (notoriously of the definition of “repetitive...