In the late 1970s, a teenage Jamie Morgan began photographing the New Romantic scene spilling out of the city’s clubs and onto the streets of London – notably Boy George, Steve Strange, and Marilyn. With stylist Ray Petri, he co-founded the Buffalo movement, a style that reflected British youth culture of the time and subverted the gender, age, and cultural norms of the time. Think: men in skirts and boots, sportswear and high fashion, casting boys as girls, children as adults, and so on.
Morgan’s latest exhibition Buffalo: Future Generation continues the legacy of Buffalo and the spirit of street casting to realise a new series of portraits of British youth today. On show later this month at Ladbroke Hall in West London, where Buffalo was born.