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Wayne Tippetts

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Wayne Tippetts is a British social-documentary photographer who, from 1986, documented sound system and dancehall culture in Jamaica and London over roughly 17 years. His 'Inna Dancehall Style' project spotlighting Dancehall Queens and dancehall patrons was first published in The Guardian in 1993, and three of his Jamaican dancehall images were acquired by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2015.

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