The Subculture Catalogues #1
210 x 265 mm, 1124 pages
London
Occasional
First published in 2026
Curator and founder: Tory Turk
Creative direction: Jill Schneider
This is the first in a new series of publications aiming to counteract the internet’s echo chamber. Each issue acts as a reference guide for a single subculture, collecting together objects and written memories in a single volume as an archive of that scene. It is an archive led by those that were there, not just the same old stories that ripple across our feeds.
The series begins with UK Garage, as that was the subculture founder Tory Turk was into as a teenager. Split into five sections—The Sound, The Style, The Face, The Stuff and The Scene—it tells the story of UK Garage via contemporary photography, posters, mixtapes, magazines, clothes, promo items and set lists. Each is accompanied by personal notes from the person who contributed the item to the publication. It is smartly designed an lovingly curated.
Tory is an independent exhibition curator, specialising in popular culture, so what might just have been a loose collection of stuff is tightly organised. This is going to build into a key record of our many subcultures. Conceived as a living project, each copy comes with a pencil for additions.