The Face Magazine: Culture Shift

The Face Magazine: Culture Shirt celebrates The Face’s most iconic portraits from 1980–2004. It explores the magazine’s role in the evolution of style photography and its international and enduring impact on visual culture.

Ground-breaking British youth culture and style magazine The Face established the careers of a generation of photographers, journalists, designers, and models. Known for its distinctive, radical and of-the-minute design and its unflinching attitude, the magazine originally focused on music but branched into fashion and culture more widely, as well as encompassing political and social commentary. Initially running from 1980–2004, its strong inclusive stance, bold design and experimental approaches to photography feel fresh and relevant today.

The Face Magazine: Culture Shift includes portraits of iconic sitters including Kate Moss, Annie Lennox, Kurt Cobain, Iggy Pop, Snoop Dogg, David Bowie, Ewan McGregor, Madness, The Sex Pistols, and Kylie Minogue. It features the voices of some of the key contributors to the original magazine and celebrates the ongoing legacy of the magazine’s imagery in British art, design and culture. It showcases striking and iconic portrait photographs from the likes of Miles Aldridge, Elaine Constantine, Corrine Day, David LaChapelle and Juergen Teller, alongside selected covers and spreads from the original print magazine.