"It was 2003 and I was working as staff photographer at Vice magazine. The Editor asked me and a writer friend to go and shoot a young musician called Dylan, who went by the name of Dizzee Rascal.

We turned up at Dizzee’s studio in South London. My nickname at Vice was Queenie, which I think confused Dylan quite a bit. After about 5 minutes of awkward intros we started shooting and the nerves began to evaporate. We spent a couple of hours with him, bouncing about on the roof and down to the street. His energy and enthusiasm were endearing.

I only shot two rolls of film that day. More than twenty years on, I still love every frame I took.

I remember playing his album Boy In Da Corner in the Vice office, it confused me more than anything else. I loved Garage and spent my youth listening to Happy Hardcore, but this just sounded alien. After a week or so of solidly playing it, something clicked. I was sold. Grime was it.

I went on to photograph over 30 MCs and crews from the initial Grime scene, for various magazines including i-D, Dazed, Crack, Guardian, RWD and Vice. This body of work is a homage to the pioneers of a scene that has come to define British music and shape youth culture over the last two decades."