Vintage 80s: London Street Photography

No other city has the variety of hairstyles male and female that parade the streets of London. The bouffant the duck arse the white wings of power swept over the ears the coxcomb punk the flat top the social outriders bowl cut. Theyre all there to make a place. In respect of the hair of the 80s the rest of the world was dead from the neck up. Buy a 35mm camera at the beginning of 1980 and spend the next 10 years walking around London taking half a roll of black and white a day and photograph whatever happens in front of you. You get Mick Jagger New Romantics Ra Ra skirts Boy George Sloane Rangers. The beginning of Covent Garden Yuppies The IRA bombings the Iranian Embassy siege. 100s of newspaper flyers John Lennon Shot Dead - Margaret Thatchers London Fashions that came and went. Here are 160 unique street photographs of London when it was the style musical political and fashion capital of the world.