Breaking: Yushy’s Decade-Capturing Lens Exposes Dance Music’s Raw Soul
London photographer Yushy’s decade-spanning archive of global dance culture—capturing Cardiff raves, Rio Carnival, and intimate club moments—returns with a reissued edition of *Rave to the Grave*, focusing on the Welsh drum & bass scene. Velocity Press reissues the 2020 book, spotlighting ten defining images. The project matters for preserving underground music’s raw emotion, energy, and quiet intimacy on the dancefloor.
From Cardiff raves to Rio Carnival, London-based photographer Yushy has spent the past decade documenting dance music culture in all its forms, capturing small moments that encapsulate both the restless energy and quiet intimacy there is to be found on the dancefloor. As he readies the reissue his 2020 book on the Welsh drum & bass scene, Rave to the Grave, on Velocity Press, he tells Daniel Dylan Wray about the ten photos he's most proud of