Skinhead Attitude

The Skinhead subculture emerged in 1967 across the London working class and from that moment on all across the world. Skinheads first appeared in Italy around mid-Eighties. As in the rest of Europe, the movement soon split along ideological lines. Due to the increasing popularity of extreme-right movements, mainstream media began to associate the term “skinhead” to “neo-fascist” and “racist”. Meanwhile, anti-racist groups started to acquire importance as well. Since the beginning, a lot of photographers narrated this subculture relating it to the teen rebellion stage. Unlike that experiences, this project is inspired by the willingness of narrating political engagement of the Italian anti-fascist and anti-racist Skinhead movement. The aim is enhancing the timeless nature of this culture by capturing faces of people - and personal details they use as self-representation - who brought this way of living in Italy and who never ceased to behave and feel as members of this community.