. Beautiful Britain by Iain McKell All images below are from the book Beautiful Britain: Photographs from the 1970s to the Present, by Iain McKell’. Copyright © Iain McKell, 2012 Iain McKell photographs his own journey walking beside the individualists and free-thinkers in the ‘tribes’ and subcultures of Britain. Together, this collection of his photographs, taken over 35 years, presents a society that is ever-changing, transient and complex. His images of tourists, skinheads, glamorous night owls  and travellers, reflect his position not only as the maker of the photographs, a curious bystander and recorder, but also as a keen participant. “My work is always about the us rather than the them.” Beautiful Britain: Photographs from the 1970s to the Present, by Iain McKell, with an essay by William Oliver is published by Prestel  price £24.99 in hardcover, 192 pp, 150 col. illus. (ISBN 978-3-7913-4701-1). Weymouth 1977 Weymouth 1977 Malcolm and his mother. Weymouth 1977 Ginger with friend. Exeter 1978 Weymouth 1977 Weymouth 1977 Weymouth 1977 Weymouth 1977 Brick Lane, London. 1979 King’s Cross, London. 1980 Le Beat Route, Soho, London. 1982 Le Beat Route, Soho, London. 1982 The Invisible Expanding Collective, Subterranea, Ladbroke Grove, London. 2001 IDSpiral psychedelic trance party, Mill Bank Farm near Hastings, Kent, 2001 Johnny with Great Dane Glory. Shoreditch, London, 2003 Vivienne Westwood at Ben’s exhibition, Battersea, London. 2003 Somerset Carnival, Bridgewater, Somerset. 2008 Somerset Carnival, Weston-super-Mare. 2009 Somerset Carnival, Glastonbury. 2008 David, Bermondsey, London. 2001 Barlby Road, North Kensington, London. 2005 Back to current issue