Late Nights
Elaine Constantine’s book “I’M COM’UN HOME IN THE MORN’UN” is a dive into London’s Northern Soul scene in the 1990s.
Shot in venues like Manchester’s Ritz, London’s 100 Club, alongside smaller ones, many of the photographs are seeing the light in this book for the first time. Having been part of the Northern Soul scene years before herself, Elaine Constantine recalls her curiosity and hesitation when she was sent to photograph the clubs on assignment for The Face Magazine.
“It was obvious the scene had gone further underground, the crowd older, little new blood, the records more obscure and the attitude on the dancefloor as fierce as ever (…) I pushed the camera bag under a chair and got lost dancing in the shadows until morning. The feeling of being some kind of culture vulture left me gradually with each record.” The images stayed in her archive for decades, until she showed them to Martin Parr.
The book “I’M COM’UN HOME IN THE MORN’UN” is published by RRB Photobooks and available at the price of £22.00.
