Angels With Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces is a photographic work by Riton bringing together more than 350 black and white portraits. For more than seven and a half years the French photographer and author has photographed the main artists of the underground punk, Oi! and hardcore music scenes. 

Some of them have been performing in bands since the 1970s and others have formed much more recently, the work having an intergenerational and international content. The leitmotif being music, the book brings together musicians and also other forces in the shadows such as fanzine publishers, concert promoters, record company directors, DJs and photographers, all who have contributed work to these scenes.

Forewards are by Taï-Luc (La Souris Déglinguée), Garry Bushell (The Gonads) and Matt Kelly (Dropkick Murphys).

THIS IS A LIMITED EDITION RELEASE WITH ONLY 1,000 COPIES PRODUCED. OI OI THE SHOP IS THE EXCLUSIVE STOCKIST IN THE UK.

Featured artists include:

1984, 8°6 Crew, Agnostic Front, American War Machine, Angelic Upstarts, Anti-Nowhere League, Anti-Patik, Battle Ruins, The Beltones, Beton Arme, Biohazard, Bishops Green, Bonecrusher, Booze & Glory, Breakout, The Business, Brick By Brick, Camera Silens, The Casualties, Charge 69, Chelsea, Chron Gen, Class Sinners, Claimed Choice, Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects, Collabos, The Crack, Crane De Iron, Cro-Mags, Crown Court, Cutthroat, Dead Boys, Death By Stereo, Die Vracks, Don Letts, Do Or Die, Dog Eat Dog, Dropkick Murphys, The Drowns, East End Badoes, The Exploited, Flogging Molly, Force Majeure, Gogol Premier, The Gonads, Gonna Get Yours, Grade 2, Grapeshot, H2O, Hanky Panky, Hard Times, Hardside, Harrington Saints, Haymaker, Herberts, Infa-Riot, The Interrupters, Jenny Woo, Junto, Kickback, Kidnap, King Phantom, Knuckledust, Komintern Sect, The Trigger, The Last Resort, The Deginguate Mouse, The Corpses, The Olivensteins, Liberty & Justice, Lion's Law, Locomuerte, Madball, Maraboots, Marching Orders, Merauder, Mess, Murphys Law, Negative Approach, Noi!Se, No Pub, No Turning Back, Outcasts, P38, Panik Ltdc, Peter & The Test Tube Babies, Plastic Gangsters, Pms 84, Poison Idea, Ras, Rancid, Reverse The Rules, Rixe, Ruts DC, Rythm 'N' Boots, Sex Pistols, Sheer Terror, Sherwood, Shoot The Dogs, Shutdown, Sick Of It All, Skarhead, Slapshot, Slaughter And The Dogs, Spermicide, Skeleton, Stomper 98, Strong, Survet Skins, Swingo Porkies, The Press, The Oppressed, The Rumjacks, The Samples, The Selecter, The Stance, The Take, Taxi Driver, Tear Up, Terror, Templars, Toltshock, Topnovil, Toy Dolls, Trotskids, UK Subs, Ultra Sect, The Vibrators, Violent Way, Vicious Rumors, Warrior Kids, West Side Boys, Worst, Wunderbach, Wisdom In Chains, X-Syndicate, The Young Ones and more.

ORDERS OUTSIDE THE UK ARE LIMITED TO ONE BOOK PER ORDER. This is due to high shipping charges because of the weight of the item. If more than one book is ordered the extra ones will be refunded and only copy will be sent.

AN INTERVIEW WITH RITON IS IN OUR BLOG POST. 

About the photographer:

Riton took his first steps in the underground music scene while in his early teens at the beginning of the 1980s. He discovered the 'Way of Life' and the sounds and the style that accompanied it. Hanging out with older friends who would bring him to Parisian record stores and flea markets, he absorbed the culture. This drove the now 15 year old to create a fanzine, and a few years later to start his own production and distribution label. He played guitar in many bands and with most success in West Side Boys who toured abroad as well as their home country of France.

He developed a passion for photography very early on and has continued to work in the punk, Oi! and hardcore scenes ever since.

Photographer: Riton
Publisher: Serious Publishing
Release date: 19 October 2024 / launch at Oi Oi The Shop
Format: Hardback with matt paper, 412 pages, 25 x 25 x 3cm
Languages: English and French