Me and my camera in my home town, my capital city, my london
2pm, saturday afternoon. The tube is full of youths on their way to The Lovebox festival in Victoria Park. They passed round super strength alcohol disguised in soft drink bottles and took turns at nitrous oxide balloons. If you go to a festival you see a lot of balloon action these days. This symbol of childhood innocence has been re-appropriated by young party heads, mainly because its still technically legal, although there is call to ban it. Although no-one can really say why. It is a short intense high that makes you light headed and euphoric. Its difficult to see quite why that is a problem. The tabloids are calling it ‘hippy crack’ which makes it sound like a demonic dangerous drug from hell which is undoubtedly the intention.