Street Portraits
This body of work follows a group of young skinheads over the course of a day in Derry / Londonderry, tracing both their present-day lived experience and the visual echoes of a subculture deeply rooted in the city’s past.
Moving between observation and reconstruction, I spent time walking in their footsteps, documenting moments of everyday life while also restaging references drawn from iconic imagery of the 1980s. Record stores, mopeds, and underpasses become both setting and memory, sites where youth culture, identity, and history overlap and blur.
Rather than treating these references as fixed or nostalgic, the work explores how style, place, and belonging are continuously re-formed. The photographs sit somewhere between document and re-enactment, where contemporary bodies inhabit familiar visual codes, reshaping them in the present tense.
What emerges is not a singular narrative, but a layered portrait of youth culture in motion and how it is seen, how it is performed, and how it persists within the changing textures of the city.