Anaglypta 1980-2020 Nick Waplington Edition of 100 with Signed & numbered Print

“1979…Fuel strikes, rubbish piling up in the street it felt like the end of times, the end of my childhood at least. As we danced to the sound of joy division and the clash in my bedroom during the six week period that schools were closed I saw this collapse as only a positive thing, concerts and skate parks for me instead of studying, I loved it. As the year turned the new decade, 1980 I was 14 years old and i somehow got hold of my first camera. It gave me a place in the do it yourself movement of the post punk generation. I could take pictures wherever I went and share them with friends and try to get a few into local fanzines. That was the goal, fanzine photographer back then in 1980 aged 14. As the years progressed and punk gave way to electro, hip hop and then house music all night long I carried the camera with me always. Without thinking about the long term consequences of this I slowly but surely started to build an archive of the time, my time. The music I loved became a gate