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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Interview by Daniel Dylan Wray

Two skinheads counting the takings from a neo-Nazi gig: Leo Regan’s best photograph

Two skinheads count the night’s cash.
‘I’m not trying to forgive or underplay the extremities’ … the two guys with the night’s cash. Photograph: Leo Regan

In 1990, I was working in photojournalism but doing music photography on the side to make money. At the time there was a rise in neo-Nazi music, with bands such as Skrewdriver and the Blood and Honour movement. I was initially going to do a magazine piece on it but it grew into a much bigger project and I ended up spending two years following these people around the country. It led to a book and a documentary.

It was a difficult project and there were moral and ethical challenges as well as dangerous ones, but that was part of the attraction. The people were suspicious of me but I was honest about what I wanted to do. They knew I didn’t agree with their politics but that I didn’t have an agenda.

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