This is one of a series of short, staple bound books published by Café Royal Books. Café Royal Books is the publishing project of artist and scholar Craig Atkinsion, dedicated to the creation of a “focussed and complete archive of British documentary photography.” Café Royal books are generally printed in black and white in relatively small editions, and focus on works by photographers of any nationality made in the British Isles, as well as works by British photographers made abroad.
This zine collects Mark McNulty’s work documenting the British rave scene in the early 1990s. McNulty captures ravers dancing and pulling faces from the camera. While most of these photographs employ a straightforward documentary style, several are blurred and bleary, imitating the excess, excitement, and exhaustion of the rave.