Rock Against Racism: 1976-1981 Shelton’s first solo show in

Shelton’s first solo show in 1975

The Impossibility of Silence is a book for artists

” on behalf of marginalized lives

These were acts of style activism—the making of an activist identity through the considered composition of clothes

Rock Against Racism: 1976-1981 Shelton’s first solo show inSyd Shelton: Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 19761981. For Shelton, this work was a socialist act, what he calls a graphic argument, on behalf of marginalized lives. His practice of photographic activism began in 1973 when he was driven to document the socio cultural and political dynamics expressed on the streets of Sydney by urban Australian