Best of 2020: Unit B1
Unit B1 presents craig richards
Undisclosed Hackney Archway, London
A week before the pandemic set in and forced the UK into a nationwide lockdown, we were invited to shoot what was to be one of our last events of the year. Looking back, it was fitting that our last days of shooting would be in a sweaty, over-crowded tunnel of a semi-legal rave in East London, full of familiar faces and unannounced billing of the night’s music.
With no lights besides the fractal light show projected behind the DJ, the rave was a pretty dimly lit affair, with silhouettes of hands in the air and a single bare bulb in the adjoining tunnel your only guides to find the bar, toilet, or way out. Not that you could make it out of the dancefloor, nor would you need to, with everyone sparking a cigarette where they danced, saving themselves a trip out into the cold March night.
Photography: Khris Cowley
