Waynetippetts | Street Fashion Aesthetics Blog

As a photojournalist, Wayne Tippetts has always been drawn to subcultures. I like to blur the boundaries between street photography, fashion, and documentary photography. In 1986, I began visiting Jamaica and began documenting its vibrant culture. It was here that I first encountered the scene of Jamaican dance halls at night on the streets of the capital Kingston. But I have decided that in order to get closer to where I need to live. So in 1993, I accepted a part-time job teaching photography at Edna Manley School of Art.

It was time to move back to London and reintegrate into British life in 2003. It took me some time to regain my footing, but in 2008, I founded a street fashion blog that blended my emerging interest in the street and fashion together - the first connection I established in Kingston JA's ballroom sound system - by filming women wearing customized costumes dancing on the streets and in the yard. Afterwards, I visited Jamaica again in 2013 and 2016.

This website combines my photography news and documentary work, as well as my interest in the streets, while reflecting a deeper connection to my theme and capturing the pulse of the environment. From primitive urban Jamaican counterculture ballroom scenes to depicting my themes through narrative structures, such as the last F Cooke Pie and Mash store in London, or the first wave of the May bank holiday at Southend Beach during the pandemic, Jamaican racecourse jockeys, or children's boxers in the East End of London.