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Antisocial: Early 90s Hardcore Portraits

April 8, 2013 By Laura Dal Farra 3 Comments

 

Spending some time in my hometown of Windsor, Ontario, Canada is eliciting some serious nostalgia.  The following is Part I of a two part series of portraits found in a box under the stairs in my parents’ basement. Part II, Working Class Kids: Early 90s Skinhead Portraits may be found here.

 

All shots were taken with a Canon AE-1. The last photo was the only not taken by me (and I have no idea who did, but it was with my Canon). I originally developed a number of these by hand.

 

I grew up listening to punk, hardcore, oi!, streetpunk, seminal punk….I lived in a house with three brothers, two of them being record geeks who listened to the above incessantly. I distinctly remember being at a party sometime in early highschool, someone putting on Beat On The Brat by the Ramones and a conditioned childhood anxiety creeped into my bones.  I was waiting for some sort of torture; I was waiting for one of my brothers.

 

The family record geek legacy continued and within time, I began to DJ the above, first on community radio in Windsor and later in bars in Toronto. I eventually sold my vinyl collection to fund my trip to train muay thai in Thailand.

 

Although the albums are gone and only some photos remain, there’s enough to make me feel warm and fuzzy thinking of the delinquents I grew up with.

 

From the archives…

 

 

anarchy-92a
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1992

 

windsor hxc kid 2
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1992

 

windsor-hxc-kid-2
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1992

 

windsor-hxc-kid-3
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1992

 

 

The following was the first cover up attempt I remember doing. Possibly the only one. I walked into a room, this kid was lying on the floor and I was basically told if I didn’t fix up the mess on his abdomen, the other guy in the room was going to. A work of art with a homemade machine fashioned from a guitar string and a motor ripped from a tape deck.

 

 

windsor-hxc-kid-4
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1992

 

windsor-hxc-kid-5
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1992

 

windsor-hxc-kids
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1992

 

windsor-hxc-kid-6
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1993

 

windsor-hardcore-94
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1994

 

Me, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, sometime between 1992 – 1995

 

Filed Under: Canada, Images Tagged With: Windsor

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About Laura Dal Farra

After a six month adventure training Muay Thai in Thailand in 2007, Laura Dal Farra returned to her native Canada, sold most of what she owned, and boarded a plane set for Bangkok alone. She spent the next 3.5 years training in traditional Muay Thai gyms, pushing her limits, and embracing the unknown. Realizing little was being written on the subject, she began to blog about it. Laura Dal Farra is the founder of Milk.Blitz.Street.Bomb.

Comments

  1. Lester Salvador says

    April 8, 2013 at 02:31

    I *love* these photographs!

    Reply
  2. julian dabrowski says

    August 3, 2013 at 15:12

    Hey whatsup. Longtime man. I’m a fan of your blog etc. You’ve always been someone I consider real in a fakeass world.
    XjulianX

    Reply
    • ldf says

      August 6, 2013 at 11:11

      much love julian. glad you stopped by!

      Reply

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