Margate's Hidden Youth Culture
Iain Aitch in Margate's Lido
Artist Iain Aitch
Date April- September 2011
Location Margate
Category Literature & Photography

Iain Aitch is the Kent Cultural Baton Artist in residence for Dreamland, in association with Turner Contemporary. Iain has been collecting stories and photographs relating to youth culture in Margate. He invited people to dig out their old photographs of themselves in their younger days, and share stories of the fun they had.

For more information on the project and to see some of the research go to http://www.facebook.com/margateyouthculture. Iain will be producing photographs and text for the final publication/map of the Baton project. To find out more about Iain Aitch's work go to http://www.iainaitch.com/.

Iain Aitch's photographs can be seen in Nothing in the World But Youth, which opens at Turner Contemporary, Margate on 17 September and runs to 8 January 2012. (see www.turnercontemporary.org for more info)