New photobook, Not Going Home, captures late ‘90s UK clubbers in the early-morning afterglow

A new photobook compiles images of UK partygoers taken in the early-morning, post-club afterglow of summer 1998. 

Published by the British Culture Archive, Not Going Home comprises work Mischa Haller, a London-based photographer who grew up in Switzerland and spent part of the ’90s photographing post-rave clubbers across the UK.

“I was interested in the time between the nightclub closing and people going home, those one or two hours when the rest of the world is asleep, but clubbers are carrying on,” Haller said in the book’s blurb. “These moments hang in the memory – eating, smoking, chatting, making a fire on the beach or meeting someone new”.

The British Culture Archive’s Paul Wright added: “I love this series, little did we know where we were heading with the digital age and how it would change society, but these images, as well as being photographically brilliant, really capture those post-hedonistic nights and hazy early mornings beautifully.” 

The book, which is out now and includes a foreword by journalist Katie Spicer, features a variety of portraits that range from a group of morning ravers chilling out on Brighton beach to hungry revellers waiting for McDonalds to open. 

Pick up a copy from the British Culture Archive here.

Last year saw the publication of a new photobook documenting rave and youth culture for Velocity Press, titled You Out Tonight? Velocity Press also published Ben Murphy’s Ears To The Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music. 

Revisit DJ Mag’s long read on Murphy’s Ears to the Ground book here.