Night British life through the eyes of a photographer.
Today the headlines are not optimistic: “British Nightclubs are closing at an alarming rate, according to statistics,” “Why British night clubs to die”, “How to save London’s club culture?”.
The story goes that before the introduction of licensing to the ability to file complaints against noise and to the high cost of renting premises, that almost destroyed a small establishment, in London’s West end, the East end and partly in the South-West of the British capital there was a special club culture.
The reality is much more complex than this view, but the conclusion is still obvious one: the clubs are closing faster than opening new schools, and not only in London but throughout the UK.
By the end of 2015, the UK lost about half of the clubs in ten years. But thanks to the photographers who documented the night life in the 1980-ies and later, today there are little more than vague memories of the current 45-year-old, to get an idea about the peak of British club culture.
