144 pages Text(s) by Yushy Designed by Yushy 24.7 x 17.7 cm Language: English Hardback Publisher: Velocity Press 2025
“A vital and fearless documentarian of today’s underground subcultures.” — Ed Gillett, author of Party Lines
In Section 63: Underground & Unmastered, photographer Yushy dives into London’s resurgent DIY rave movement: a raw, unfiltered continuation of a spirit first ignited in the early ’90s. Gaining the trust of crews across the city, Yushy embedded himself in their world: abandoned warehouses, forgotten corners, reclaimed spaces where, for one night, music and community take over against the odds.
The title references the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994, a law designed to silence free parties and criminalise youth culture. Decades later, its legacy still looms large as nightclubs continue to close at an alarming rate, threatening to erase the UK’s dance floors altogether. Against this backdrop of crisis, Yushy captures a powerful counter-narrative: the hunger for connection, the fight to keep underground culture alive, and the fleeting beauty of nights that weren’t meant to last.
With his distinctive visual style, timeless, immediate, and deeply human, Yushy places himself in the lineage of legendary rave documentarians, while telling a story that is unmistakably of the present.
