This "Photo-Punk" display featured the photographs taken by Kevin Cummins and Ian Dickson, which captured the mood of the fans and the bands of first wave of the movement such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Buzzcocks, to the later post-punk bands like Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Slits, Joy Division. Personally I enjoyed a lot on this display and then later I have took a shot of a man who's wearing The Clash's London Calling T-shirt and standing on the corner of the street with his dog while I'm working on Street Photograph Exercise.
Technically, this shot still needs to be improved in many way but I quite liked his fashion and attitude, which somehow resembles the mood of old-school punk rock. Thus I have decided to focus on the people who still remains to expressing his or her attitude, identity, or perhaps political and social position through the punk fashion, especially the T-shirts.
And I assume that the only particular group of individuals still adopting the punk culture as their lifestyle, and they can be named "Punks". Because, basically, punk rock as a form of music and as a cultural movement isn't really updated after the 90's so culture as Punk is returned to the underground already. In addition, the T-shirts is an essential medium for the Punk culture because T-shirts can easily express one's principles and position, or strong message by wearing them. Historically, Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) was wearing the T-shirt of Pink Floyd, which he added "I HATE" above the band's name by himself, to express his opposition to the epic-oriented progressive rock band at that time. Also, band t-shirt is a dominant way for the fans to support the independent bands at the scenes of punk culture so wearing them can be seen expression of DIY attitude.
Basically I would like to explore more on this theme but still it needs practical improvement and more detailed consideration to construct the narrative on the series of photographs.
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