LONDON GRIME

In 2005, I spent three weeks documenting the early emergence of UK grime in East London. The work was made during a formative period, before the genre had broader visibility, when it circulated primarily through localized networks and informal infrastructures.

Grime developed as an insular musical culture with its own internal hierarchies, rules, and systems of legitimacy. At the time, much of its distribution operated outside sanctioned channels, including illegal pirate radio stations, which I photographed alongside artists, performers, and participants. The images function as an early record of a scene still defining itself—documenting figures and spaces that would later become central to a widely recognized cultural movement.