Golders Green Road, 1985

All photographs by Nigel Shafran/courtesy Loose Joints

Lost in Space, The Face, Seven Sisters Road, 1989

‘These weren’t usual fashion shoots that are often done in a day. You’d go out, come back to show me a picture, and then go back out to take another one. Then you’d take another two or three, and we’d get rid of the first two, over and over again’ – Phil Bicker, art director

Lost in Space, The Face, Golders Green, 1989

Ruder than Rest (The Chipie Phenomenon), The Face, 1990

‘These kids would wear clothes in ways other than they were supposed to, buying regular clothes and wearing them oversized and baggy, which became a huge thing later. They presented the clothes like that on their own, like how people make things for themselves on TikTok now’ – Phil Bicker, Art Director

British Rap (Ruff Jusdis), The Face, 1990

Teenage Precinct Shoppers, i-D, 1991

Teenage Precinct Shoppers, i-D, 1991

T-shirty, London Underground, 1991

‘Back in London, we spent a lot of time hanging out as friends and doing pictures together, just the two of us. We had a lot of fun, wandering the streets, on the tube, on traffic islands… In parks, shopping malls, and photo booths’ – Cecilia Chancellor, model

Wrangler campaign, New York City, 1992

Down Beat, The Independent, Golders Green, 1993

‘This is in my kitchen. I’d run out of ideas for this shoot, so I restaged pictures that I’d taken of my partner, Ruth. I basically copied myself’ – Nigel

Linda Evangelista with friends, Ontario, 1996

All Girls Together, The Guardian Weekend magazine, New York City, 1997

Spice Girls shoot, New York, ahead of an appearance on Saturday Night Live

Arrivals, Pop magazine, Paris, 2007

Kate Upton, Love magazine, New York City, 2014

Gucci, Love magazine, Milan, 2015

New Jacket Required, American Vogue, 2018

‘When I’m making decisions about hair, make-up, etcetera, I want them to disappear so that nothing gets in the way of the picture’ – Nigel

Air Apparent, American Vogue, 2019

’The stylist had a large trampoline, but when Gigi jumped on it she stayed up in the air for far too long, and I had too much time to take a picture. The trampoline was too professional. We bought a cheaper one, and it made all the difference, her going, “boing, boing, boing”. That’s the first frame by the way’ – Nigel

Flights of Fancy, American Vogue, 2020

Brent Cross shopping centre, 1993

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