RAW BRITANNIA

For over forty years, award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer Tim Coleman has captured Britain in all its raw, unruly glory—where class, rebellion, and identity collide on the streets and behind closed doors.

This is no outsider’s perspective. Coleman has lived inside the heart of British counterculture for decades. He documented the rise of tattooing from back street taboo to mainstream fashion. He was there at the legendary Ace Café, capturing the defiant snarl of the Rockers. He was there deep inside the fetish underground before the rest of the world even knew it existed, and he stood face to face with Punk’s twin Sex Pistol icons Johnny Rotten in full sneer, and Sid Vicious, haunted and hollow, just months before Nancy Spungen’s tragic end.

Raw Britannia tears back the polished façade of a fractured nation. It contrasts the pageantry of Royal Ascot with the faded grit of seaside Britain, and ventures into spaces rarely seen—documenting lives lived far beyond the mainstream.

It’s a celebration of the fearless and the fierce: queer cinema fire starter Derek Jarman, trail blazing trans rocker Jane County, and Punk’s original anti-fashion icon Jordan.

Add to that the scandal-soaked stardom of British bombshell Dian Dors, the menacing presence of James Bond Villian and stage rebel Steven Birkoff, Toya Wilcox’s punk powered defiance, Iggy Pop’s feral drug-stained charisma and the glorious cultural car crash between Olive composer, Lionel Bart and Johnny Rotten himself.

With confrontational, unfiltered imagery, Raw Britannia is more than a photo book—it’s a gut punch, a confession, and a riotous love letter to Britain in all its chaos and contradiction.

This is Britain. Naked. Bruised. Unapologetically raw.