Why have we published so many photo stories from the 70s this year? We’re not entirely sure, though it might be because the decade was a real sweet spot for image-making. Cameras became cheap and readily available to most people in the 50s, but it wouldn’t be until the 90s that the medium became formally recognised as an art-form, and made it to the hallowed walls of museums like the MoMA. At the centre of this shift, many were keenly documenting the various scenes and general reckless abandon of the 1970s.
