For my latest project, I have had the incredible opportunity to document the Urban music subculture of Grime within the UK.
For months now I have toyed with the idea of breaking my way into the scene, and making a photographic series on the people I meet. I finally built up the time and effort to meet the people, and hopefully produce some interesting work.
I have just started the project, and by no means see this as a finished body of work. Realistically I would like to have a finished project by the end of the summer, but for now I have a fair few portraits that I am happy to show, and some videos coming very soon.
When I look at Grime, I see it as an energetic, lively, and promising subculture within UK music. When I look back over the last 10 years I see progression. People have come, and people have gone. But really what I am interested in is the MC’s that have been evolving through the years. For me anyway, I see some of the MC’s changing their style, and the way that we now have “Commercial Grime”, Grime music that is ready for mainstream radio, and of which is encompassing more recognition from the UK, and now, the world.
I think the media have been a bit too harsh on Grime. I wanted to show MC’s in a more “positive” light. After all, they are just normal human beings, like you or me.
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