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Nightclub Photography by Billy Monk
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Billy Monk was born in 1937, and worked as a nightclub bouncer for Les Catacombs Club in Cape Town in the late 1960s.
Using a Pentax camera with 35mm focal-length lens, Billy Monk photographed the nightclub revellers and sold the prints to his subjects. His close and long friendships with many of the people in the images allowed him to photograph them with extraordinary intimacy.
4 Comments
January 29th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Love that boobies, pinching them is great!
February 23rd, 2011 at 3:39 am
This is like a John Waters movie. Amazing.
July 23rd, 2011 at 7:52 am
this was the best. kept on looking and hope i would recognize someone. but no.
!!!!!!!!!brilliant.
March 21st, 2012 at 9:12 pm
I remember most of these girls of the catacombs, the elegant one sitting on a bar stool with the elderly gent was south africa’s very first sex change. A lot of them are dead now, hard life!