W'happen

This book presents defining images from 1990s British fashion photography. Edited by Jason Evans and including pioneering work by Elaine Constantine, Corinne Day, Nick Knight, Marc Lebon, Craig McDean, Nigel Shafran, David Sims and Wolfgang Tillmans. "W'Happen, again I was encouraged to make W'happen by Val Williams, one of the UK's most innovative, supportive and genre defying photography curators. At that time I was assisting her at the short-lived but groovy Shoreditch Biennial as she put together a survey show of late twentieth century British fashion photography called 'Look at me'. She showed me how to make a book (with Tom Hingston's help) and Levis stumped up the money to print it. I tried to collect together an extensive range of work from what was historically sealed in the 'grunge' fashion era, notorious for 'heroin chic'. The point of W'Happen was to broaden the debate, to show that the range of documentary style photographic responses in the early 90s was a much broader, m