Herb Diamanté, Through The Eyes Of Ruby exhibition, The Windmill, Brixton 2018

“This was taken at our first exhibition at The Windmill in Brixton. It came about through our friend James from the band H0nkies. We had nine bands on the bill and around 50 darkroom prints we’d made especially, all stuck up in the smoking shed out the back of the venue. I feel like this was a turning point for us as we decided that this was what we wanted to do with the project. The evening was a sell-out show and turned into absolute mayhem. A few arguments, a few too many substances and a lot of stage invasions [laughs].

The next day some of us went to ‘spoons in Brixton for pints. While outside having a cig, I decided to photograph this old guy smoking outside the pub. This backfired and soon escalated into him swinging his walking stick at us, hitting Owen’s dad in the back with it and trying to headbutt him! Back inside the pub, he was still trying to fight us all. It got so out of hand that another guy in the pub warned us that we’d picked the wrong bloke and needed to scarper! So I fled from Brixton.”

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