Thrashers

Sacha Maric’s Thrashers is a series of pictures brought back somehow from a bygone age. The shots, all screen grabs from 80s thrash metal gigs found on YouTube have been compiled into a storyboard of anger and poetic hedonism. The project was a complete change of direction from Sacha’s usual fashion photography: “It was deliberate. For me this project had to be far removed from anything else I had done. I was only in search of tight head shots and primeval rage when I started the project, but as it developed I also wanted to include more abstract and unconventionally cropped images.”

As the pictures are lifted from videos, the collection is more of a curatorship than a traditional photographic project. “My intention was to create a project made entirely from found material. I approached this as an exploration where I would trawl through and immerse myself in all these clips that people have uploaded to YouTube, and try to find fleeting moments that would make great stills. I never imagined that I would find images that were both raw and brutal but also abstract and beautiful. I never picked up my camera during this project, but apart from that the process of creating a picture was the same.”

“I was a metalhead for the most part of my teenage years, and I was also into 90's alternative and punk. Black band t-shirts, DM boots and long hair with an undercut was as close to a uniform as far as I can remember. Getting drunk on cider in Camden and going to North London's various rock clubs was the weekend ritual and on Tuesdays. I still like my music loud and heavy, the undercut is no more.”